Innovate UK has launched a new £1 million competition to fast-track breakthroughs in agentic artificial intelligence (AI) across three of the UK’s highest-growth sectors: advanced manufacturing, health and life sciences, and the creative industries. The Agentic AI Pioneers Prize aims to support AI systems capable of taking initiative, collaborating with humans, co-creating new ideas and coordinating complex tasks—capabilities that are ...
Weak consumer confidence has emerged as a growing threat to corporate performance, with a rising number of listed UK companies issuing profit warnings ahead of next month’s autumn Budget. According to a new report from EY, 64 UK-listed firms issued profit warnings in the third quarter of 2025 — and one in five cited deteriorating consumer sentiment as a key ...
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Former Chancellor George Osborne has warned that Reform UK “cannot be trusted to run the economy”, accusing Nigel Farage’s party of lacking fiscal credibility at a time when economic stewardship is likely to define the next general election. Speaking amid growing scrutiny of Reform’s costed plans, Mr Osborne dismissed the party as economically unreliable, pointing to its proposals to lift ...
The Chancellor has been warned she is “flying blind” into November’s Budget after fresh analysis suggested far more non-domiciled residents have left the UK than the Government anticipated, with billions in expected tax revenues now at risk. In a report published today, economics consultancy ChamberlainWalker says early evidence points to a significantly larger exodus of non-doms following the abolition of ...
The Government has unveiled a national plan to create 400,000 green energy jobs within the next five years, in what ministers say will be one of the most significant workforce transitions in modern British history. Energy Secretary Ed Miliband said the programme aims to double the number of people working in the UK’s low-carbon sector by 2030, with a sharp ...
Sir David Attenborough has become the oldest person ever to win a Daytime Emmy, marking another extraordinary milestone in a broadcasting career that has spanned more than seven decades. The 99-year-old naturalist and filmmaker took home the award for Outstanding Daytime Personality – Nondaily for his narration of Netflix’s Secret Lives of Orangutans, beating fellow nominees including Martha Stewart and ...
Rachel Reeves’s flagship plan to overhaul the UK’s non-dom tax regime is facing an early blow after new analysis suggested far more wealthy residents have left the country than the Treasury forecast. According to consultancy Chamberlain Walker, around 1,800 non-domiciled individuals — 50 per cent more than expected — have exited Britain since the chancellor scrapped the system in April ...
Britain’s second-largest bookmaker has warned it will close all its 1,300 betting shops and cut 7,000 jobs if the government presses ahead with plans to double gambling taxes in next month’s budget. Joanne Whittaker, chief executive of Betfred, said the measures being considered by chancellor Rachel Reeves would “wipe out the high-street betting shop”, threatening the future of Britain’s traditional ...
The governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, has issued his starkest warning yet about the long-term impact of Brexit, saying that the economic consequences of Britain’s exit from the European Union will remain “negative for the foreseeable future.” Speaking in Washington DC to a gathering of global central bankers, Bailey said he was not commenting on Brexit as ...