George Osborne returned to the Treasury this week with colleagues predicting that he will deliver his second Budget of 2015 “relatively soon” to mark a distinctive new phase of his chancellorship.Continue reading
David Cameron will tell his Cabinet the Conservatives are the “real party for working people” as he meets with his most senior ministers for the first time.Continue reading
A survey conducted following last week’s General Election has revealed the priorities of Britain’s SMEs.Continue reading
An end to the volatility of the last few weeks was in sight this morning as it emerged that David Cameron would likely be staying on at number 10.Continue reading
The Australian parent of Clydesdale bank has confirmed plans to float the high street lender on the London Stock Exchange before the end of the year as it quits the UK market.Continue reading
HSBC pledged to decide whether to leave the UK within months on Tuesday as its chief executive said Britain had rejected the universal banking model that Europe’s largest bank aspires to.Continue reading
Economists are warning that a weak government could slow the recovery and drive up government borrowing costs as financial markets add a premium for political risk.Continue reading
The state-rescued Lloyds Banking Group has announced that net profits sank by a fifth in the first quarter, after taking a charge against the disposal of its TSB retail division.Continue reading
The latest figures for Britain’s economy have revealed that the recovery rate slowed to 0.3 per cent during the first quarter of 2015, despite experts’ earlier predictions that growth would be 0.5 per cent.Continue reading
According to Bertelsmann Stiftung, a German think tank, an exit from the EU would have a worse impact on Britain than any other EU nation.Continue reading
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