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Morrisons to shut 100 convenience stores as supermarket blames Labour’s ‘policy choices’ for rising costs
April borrowing surges to £24.3bn as debt interest bill breaks month record
Jaguar Land Rover eyes American tie-up with Stellantis to sidestep Trump tariffs
Labour eyes £1bn VAT raid on airport charges in stealth blow to family holidays
Blame the system, not the school leavers for youth unemployment, says Amazon’s UK boss
Potters win £120m rescue as government finally backs Britain’s ceramics heartland
Reeves serves up summer of savings with VAT cut on family days out
Andrew trade envoy files: Queen ‘very keen’ ex-prince led UK plc abroad, Whitehall papers reveal
HS2 reset to punch £33bn black hole in Britain’s public finances
Youth jobs in retreat: IFS warns Britain is sliding back to Covid-era lows

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Amy is a newly qualified journalist specialising in business journalism at Business Matters with responsibility for news content for what is now the UK’s largest print and online source of current business news.

Microsoft is to plant a fresh flag in central London, taking the entirety of Film House, an eight-storey Art Deco landmark on Wardour Street, to serve as the principal home of its rapidly expanding UK artificial intelligence operations.

Microsoft plants AI flag in Soho with Film House lease as London tech land grab accelerates

5 May 20265 May 2026 In Business Amy Ingham 0 Comments

NatWest, the UK's largest business bank with 1.5 million business customers, is set to provide expedited access to loans of up to £250,000 within 24 hours of application, in response to increasing competition from alternative lenders.

Natwest profits jump to £2bn as Iran conflict drives mortgage rates higher

5 May 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Britain's reputation as Europe's cleantech powerhouse is being undermined by a brutal funding drought at the very bottom of the pipeline, with new figures showing investment in the country's youngest low-carbon and renewable energy companies has collapsed to its lowest level in five years.

Britain’s green start-ups face ‘triple squeeze’ as early-stage funding crashes to five-year low

1 May 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

A recent study of the UK's largest firms has highlighted that neurodiverse business leaders should serve as role models within their organisations.

Singapore’s ‘Queen of Bond Street’ takes a seat at Heston Blumenthal’s table

1 May 2026 Get Funded, News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Britain’s biggest winemaker uncorks a record-breaking year as chief executive James Pennefather sticks to his audacious target of capturing 1 per cent of the global champagne market by 2035.

Chapel Down toasts million-bottle milestone in race to challenge champagne

30 April 202630 April 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Premier Inn owner Whitbread is to scrap its chain of branded restaurants and recycle £1.5 billion of hotel freeholds through a sale-and-leaseback programme, placing 3,800 jobs at risk as the FTSE 100 group tears up its five-year plan in response to mounting cost pressures and a restless activist investor.

Whitbread axes branded restaurants and puts 3,800 jobs at risk in £1.5bn Premier Inn shake-up

30 April 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

UK consumer confidence saw a marginal improvement in March, rising by just one point to -19, according to the latest GfK index.

Britain braces for £35bn energy shock as Iran conflict pushes inflation back above 4%

29 April 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Do you have employees who call in sick often or never show up on time for their shifts? You’re not the only one.

Blair think tank urges ’emergency handbrake’ on sickness benefits as bill races towards £78bn

28 April 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

The UK has announced sweeping new sanctions aimed at crippling Russia’s energy revenues, targeting the country’s largest oil producers, state-linked tankers, and overseas partners helping to keep Russian crude flowing to global markets.

UAE’s shock Opec exit signals a new era of energy market volatility for British business

28 April 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

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Lloyds tops the league of shame as Britain’s finance firms pay out £236m to aggrieved customers

28 April 202628 April 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Battery Ventures has raised $3.25bn in fresh capital to invest in technology companies worldwide, as it doubles down on artificial intelligence and enterprise software opportunities.

Beware the tax-break brigade: founders warned over EIS and SEIS investors who ‘don’t care about the outcome’

28 April 2026 Get Funded, In Business Amy Ingham 0 Comments

A British artificial intelligence company founded by one of the architects of fintech unicorn Tide has written to every Member of Parliament warning that the political debate over children's smartphone use has descended into a "false choice" between blanket bans and unrestricted access.

SafetyMode warns MPs of ‘false choice’ on child smartphone safety as global pressure mounts

28 April 2026 In Business Amy Ingham 0 Comments

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Harpin-backed Flooring Superstore weighs restructure as sales slip

27 April 2026 In Business Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Ministers are turning up the heat on Britain's biggest companies to fortify their cyber-defences, warning that a new generation of artificial intelligence tools, including Anthropic's controversial Mythos model, risks unleashing a fresh wave of sophisticated hacking against UK plc.

Ministers urge British boardrooms to sign cyber-resilience pledge as AI threat escalates

27 April 202627 April 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Merck, the American pharmaceuticals group known as MSD in Europe, has dealt a significant blow to the government’s ambitions to build a world-leading life sciences economy by scrapping its £1 billion plan for a new London headquarters.

HMRC backs down on free-drugs VAT raid as pharma giants threaten UK exodus

27 April 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

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Morrisons is preparing to pull down the shutters on 100 loss-making convenience stores in a move that places hundreds of shop-floor jobs in jeopardy, with the Bradford-based grocer pointing the finger squarely at Labour's tax and wage agenda for tipping the sites into terminal decline.

Morrisons to shut 100 convenience stores as supermarket blames Labour’s ‘policy choices’ for rising costs

Morrisons is closing 100 loss-making convenience stores, putting hundreds of jobs at risk, and has blamed Labour’s “policy choices” for the rising costs eroding profitability.

April borrowing surges to £24.3bn as debt interest bill breaks month record

Jaguar Land Rover eyes American tie-up with Stellantis to sidestep Trump tariffs

Labour eyes £1bn VAT raid on airport charges in stealth blow to family holidays

Blame the system, not the school leavers for youth unemployment, says Amazon’s UK boss

Potters win £120m rescue as government finally backs Britain’s ceramics heartland

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