EU open to bending fiscal rules to boost defence spending
Brussels is open to increasing the “flexibility” of the EU’s rules governing national debt and fiscal deficits to allow ...
Trump's first trade war begins as China tariffs come into effect and Beijing hits back: Live updates
President Trump’s 10% tariffs on Chinese goods come into effect from 12.01am Tuesday after measures against Canada and Mexico are paused ...
Does Santander's sprawling empire still make sense?
John Cronin, a financial industry analyst and founder of SeaPoint Insights, says: “The point is [Santander] generates a ...
UK takes legal advice over pulling out of $20bn Total LNG project in Mozambique
The UK is taking legal advice over whether it can withdraw $1.15bn of taxpayers’ money from TotalEnergies for a controversial $20bn liquefied natural gas project, according to two people with ...
How transformers are holding up the UK’s energy transition
On a stretch of marshland a few miles from Tilbury Fort in south-east England, engineer Nick Mallinson surveys the network of wires and transformers that form the heart and lungs of a new battery ...
Tax lawyers working ‘flat out’ for non-doms who choose not to leave UK
Lawyers say they are working “flat out” for non-doms who need to restructure their tax affairs because they plan to stay in the UK, despite the abolition of their special status. “The people who are ...
What should my son do with his Child Trust Fund savings?
Child Trust Funds automatically convert to Isas when the child turns 18, but it sounds like your son’s CTF may have been ...
Rachel Reeves faces mounting fiscal pressure as watchdog prepares forecast
A worsening outlook for UK economic growth could wipe out Rachel Reeves’ headroom against her fiscal rules, economists have warned, even though pressures in gilt markets have eased. The UK chancellor ...
Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump demands rare earth metals from Kyiv as British teen killed on first mission
The confirmation of Wilton's death comes as Donald Trump told reporters at the White House that he wanted Ukraine to supply rare earth metals in exchange for American military and financial aid.
Ukraine-Russia war latest: British teen killed on first mission as Trump demands rare earth metals from Kyiv
The figure in question, Armen Sarkisyan, from the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk, is a known close associate of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, the pro-Russian politician who was ...
Letter: Globalisation revisited
5G, high-speed rail, renewable energy, robotics — the list goes on. But for a dollar-backed global trade order, the net imbalances of globalisation we see today could easily be far worse.
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK overtakes Labour in new opinion poll
Reform UK has taken the lead in a British opinion poll for the first time, in a move that will alarm Labour and the Conservatives ahead of local elections in May. Public support for Reform UK, the ...