The rate of UK unemployment increased to 4.6 per cent in the three months to April, from 4.5 per cent in the three months to March, the Office for National Statistics said today.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves may need to make her headroom larger than £9.9bn in the autumn to restore credibility and fund ...

Rachel Reeves’s tax raid pulled in £300m less than expected during its first two months of operation, the Office for Budget ...

It’s a blow to Rachel Reeves, who tried to splash the cash for government departments in her spending review yesterday. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) found the economy declined by ...

Is Rachel Reeves a toxic influence in the workplace? - COMMENT : The number of job vacancies has taken a tumble just as the unemployment rate hits a four-year high – which is exactly what happens when ...

Food prices rose at their fastest pace in more than a year, official figures show, as grocers were suspected to have passed on the cost of Rachel Reeves’s tax raid to consumers.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has suffered another blow as the UK economy contracted in April, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Based on the ONS estimates, ...

The poorest Brits will benefit most from Rachel Reeves’s public sector spending spree but tax rises look likely in the autumn, think tank the Resolution Foundation has said ...

Consumer Prices Index inflation dipped slightly to 3.4 per cent in May, down from 3.5 per cent in April, according to the ...

Rachel Reeves was unable to rule out further tax rises in the Autumn budget as it was announced that the UK economy shrank by 0.3% in April. The latest GDP figures revealed by the Office for ...

The Office for National Statistics said GDP fell by 0.3% in April, marking the biggest contraction since October 2023 and worse than the 0.1% decline expected by most economists.