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Sunak set to end inheritance tax in spring ahead of election
The government is considering axing inheritance tax in three months’ time in a pre-election giveaway to boost Rishi Sunak’s chances of victory.
Thursday 22 October 2026
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The government is considering axing inheritance tax in three months’ time in a pre-election giveaway to boost Rishi Sunak’s chances of victory.
The Post Office has cut the size of the compensation pot it set aside to pay branch managers wrongly convicted of theft and false accounting by…
Frasers Group has snapped up luxury clothing website Matches Fashion for £52million.
Barclays has reached an agreement to stay in its Canary Wharf headquarters until at least 2039, in a boost to the London docklands financial district following…
Artificial intelligence cannot be legally named as an inventor to secure patent rights, the UK supreme court has ruled.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is in Switzerland to sign a deal that makes it easier for UK and Swiss financial firms to deal with each other.
The world’s biggest offshore wind farm is to be built in British waters after its developer said it planned to charge consumers higher prices for some…
Inflation has fallen faster than expected to its lowest level in over two years, dragged down by easing petrol and food prices, adding impetus to growing…
The maker of Warhammer 40,000, Games Workshop, has finalised a deal with Amazon to bring the characters and stories to the big screen
Google has agreed to pay US$700m and to allow for greater competition in its Play app store, according to the terms of an antitrust settlement with…
Apple has been forced to stop selling the Apple Watch in the US this week after a landmark lawsuit claimed the tech giant stole technology that…
The European Union has formally announced it suspects X, previously known as Twitter, of breaching its rules in areas including countering illegal content and disinformation.
The boss of Ryanair, Michael O’Leary, is inching towards a potential €100m (£86m) bonus that would be among the largest in European corporate history, after the…
The pay gap at the UK’s largest companies, which measures the difference in earnings between pay packets for chief executives and average employees, rose last year…
The number of job openings in the UK has dipped below 1 million for the first time since May 2021, signalling that the labour market is…