The latest news affecting small and medium sized (SME) businesses in the UK
Britain’s last remaining manufacturer of alloy wheels has been rescued by a 21-year-old who is also vying to buy Morecambe Football Club.
Brussels is resisting an “urgent plea” for the European Union to extend zero-tariff Brexit trade rules on electric vehicles amid car industry concerns over a deadline…
Amazon is making an investment of up to $4 billion in Anthropic in the latest in a series of alliances between big tech and artificial intelligence…
UK business magnate John Caudwell, founder of Phones 4u, has announced his decision to withdraw his support from Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party…
Jeremy Hunt has said that London’s stock exchange should be like the Nasdaq exchange in the US and become “Europe’s place of choice” for technology companies…
A coalition of industrial leaders has launched a last-ditch effort to implore Rishi Sunak not to scale back the HS2 rail line, warning that “constant changes”…
In a move that has sent tremors throughout the UK's financial landscape, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is rumoured to be set to announced plans to abolish…
The government’s borrowing bill was lower than expected last month as falling inflation and bumper tax revenues helped improve public finances.
Watford is to become the unlikely new home for Batman and Superman after Warner Bros confirmed that it is to go ahead with a huge expansion…
Insiders have revealed that the HS2 Phase Two project, the high-speed rail line from Birmingham to Manchester, is expected to be cancelled.
The Bank of England has left its interest rate unchanged at 5.25%, a day after inflation unexpectedly fell by more than expected.
Almost 2,000 more British independent stores were left empty in the first half of this year, as small businesses struggled to cope with rising inflation and…
The Confederation of British Industry, one of the UK’s largest business lobby groups, has shelved plans for a tie-up with manufacturing body Make UK, telling members…
Sunak declared that he was entering a new phase of his premiership, and that after a year bringing "stability and competence " into government, he now…
In a snap poll commissioned by Business Matters a significant 68% of surveyed SMEs in the UK expressed disagreement with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's alteration of…