The Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, must use the Autumn Budget to bolster the UK’s creative industries if she is serious about delivering economic growth, according to leading audit, tax and business advisory firm Blick Rothenberg. Partner Mandy Girder said the creative industries — from film and music to digital media and design — remain one of the UK’s most dynamic growth ...
Sophisticated criminal networks are dumping millions of tonnes of waste in the British countryside every year, costing the UK an estimated £1 billion annually, according to a House of Lords inquiry. The Environment and Climate Change Committee found that large-scale fly-tipping operations are increasingly linked to organised crime groups involved in money laundering, drug trafficking and modern slavery. The inquiry ...
The House Freedom Caucus is holding an event this week aimed at praying for an end to political violence as well as those affected by the ongoing government shutdown. The conservative caucus’ prayer call will be co-led by the Family Research Council, a Christian public policy group. Attendees are expected to include House Republicans in the Freedom Caucus, former Trump ...
More than a dozen Republican senators want to see the slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk included in President Donald Trump’s proposed pantheon of American heroes. In a letter to Trump led by Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., the lawmakers requested that Kirk be included in the National Garden of American Heroes, a massive project of 250 life-size statues of some of ...
The new home secretary Shabana Mahmood has admitted that the Home Office is “not yet fit for purpose” and has repeatedly failed to rise to the scale of multiple crises — from illegal migration to asylum accommodation and internal leadership churn. In an interview with the BBC during a police operation in south London targeting illegal workers, Mahmood acknowledged deep-rooted ...
Aston Martin has reported a dramatic escalation in losses as Donald Trump’s new tariffs on UK car imports and weakening demand from China batter the luxury carmaker’s finances. The company posted a £112 million pre-tax loss in the three months to September, compared with just £12 million during the same period last year — an increase of more than 800 ...
Former chancellor Jeremy Hunt has hit back at suggestions that the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) and past Tory tax cuts are to blame for Labour’s worsening fiscal position, calling the claim “ridiculous” and accusing Chancellor Rachel Reeves of presiding over a self-inflicted economic squeeze. The rebuke comes amid reports of mounting anger inside Downing Street after the OBR signalled ...
British businesses are wasting more than £13 billion a year in lost productivity as middle managers spend weeks dealing with avoidable, low-value work, according to new research by YouGov. The findings — published in the fifth annual Feedback from the Field report by workplace operations platform SafetyCulture — reveal that middle managers lose an average of 7.3 weeks a year ...
Entrepreneurs with ambitions to build the next big dating platform are being offered a fast-track route from concept to creation, thanks to a new incubator programme launched by dating industry pioneer Nicky Wake. The initiative promises to help founders transform their dating app ideas into live products in as little as three months, providing an end-to-end framework covering audience strategy, ...
Three of Ireland’s best-known businessmen — JP McManus, John Magnier and Dermot Desmond — have sold Barchester Healthcare, the UK’s largest private care home operator, to US real estate giant Welltower in a landmark £5.2 billion deal. The transaction represents one of the largest healthcare acquisitions in British history and underscores the growing appeal of the UK’s social care market ...