The latest news affecting small and medium sized (SME) businesses in the UK
A Canadian business has stirred up a hornet’s nest by purging online meetings, saying companies are for builders, not managers, and vowing to “give people back…
Jeremy Hunt has confirmed that he will announce plans to reduce energy support for businesses in the Commons next week, telling industry leaders it was “unsustainably…
Almost no trains are running in most parts of England today as train drivers at 15 operating companies go on strike.
Sales of electric vehicles have reached record levels in the UK, although supply chain disruption drove total sales of new cars to their lowest level in…
The British government has been given the go ahead to keep concealing the names of companies which received in total more than £47bn in state-backed Covid…
Amazon is cutting more than 18,000 employees in the biggest round of lay-offs by a technology giant yet.
Household energy bills are forecast to be hundreds of pounds a year lower than expected in the second half of this year, falling below the government’s…
Mortgage approvals fell to their lowest level in two years in November as rising borrowing costs and the aftermath of the government’s mini-budget put off prospective…
Weak exports, job losses and signs that trade with Britain is still being “shunned” after Brexit meant that the manufacturing industry ended 2022 with its lowest…
Food prices rose by a record 13.3 per cent in December, increasing fears that inflation may not fall as sharply in 2023 as central bankers and…
All children will have to study mathematics until they are 18 under Rishi Sunak’s plans to reimagine the education system.
British companies installed a record number of public electric car chargers during 2022 as they raced to dominate a fast-growing and potentially lucrative market.
Leo Varadkar, the taoiseach in Ireland, has said mistakes were made on all sides in the handling of Brexit, vowing to be “flexible and reasonable” when…
The UK’s leading companies are less inclined to borrow now than at any point since the financial crisis of 2008, a survey of directors has found.
The government is effectively asking public sector workers to do their "civic duty" and accept real-terms pay cuts - a difficult pill to swallow when private…