“Rearranging deckchairs on a heavily taxed ship”: business owners round on Labour’s tax-and-spend mindset
Britain’s small business community has reacted with thinly veiled fury to the disclosure that Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden privately told Lord Mandelson that...
Zero-hours contract reforms risk pushing bosses towards more insecure work, warns CIPD
Britain’s flagship overhaul of zero-hours contracts could end up doing the very opposite of what ministers intend, the country’s leading HR body has warned, with...
Business rates rethink demanded as 104,000 small firms swept into tax net
The Federation of Small Businesses says a decade-long freeze on the relief threshold, coupled with backdated changes hitting shared offices, is “directly undermining” the government’s...
In cod we trust: industry urges ministers to back Britain’s chippies before the high street loses its national dish
For the better part of a century, the fish and chip shop has been the most reliable barometer of British high-street health. When the chippies...
Jeremy Hunt may have just written the growth manual Britain has been waiting for
In Can We Be Rich Again? the former chancellor delivers a refreshingly self-aware diagnosis of what has gone wrong with the British economy, and a...
BCC warns nearly one in five young Britons could be out of work by 2027 as AI and tax rises bite
Nearly one in five young Britons could be out of work within little more than a year, as higher payroll taxes, a sharply rising minimum...