Starmer urged to chair new cabinet committee on economic security as supply-chain shocks bite
Sir Keir Starmer is facing fresh calls to spearhead a new cabinet committee charged with shielding British businesses from the mounting cost of global economic...
Jamie Oliver warns ministers are ‘battering’ Britain’s entrepreneurs
Jamie Oliver has launched a withering attack on the government’s tax treatment of British entrepreneurs, warning that ministers are “battering” the very people who power...
British deep-tech start-up loc.ai raises £1m to break SMEs free from the cloud’s ‘inference tax’
A British deep-tech start-up promising to liberate AI-powered businesses from spiralling cloud bills has secured £1 million in pre-seed funding, in a deal that points...
Bubble Robotics surfaces from stealth with $5m to build the ocean’s autonomous workforce
A British-backed robotics start-up promising to replace ageing offshore vessels and crews with always-on underwater machines has emerged from stealth with $5m (£3.95m) in pre-seed...
HMRC backs down on free-drugs VAT raid as pharma giants threaten UK exodus
The taxman has been forced into a tactical retreat over a contentious VAT levy on free medicines supplied to seriously ill patients, after Britain’s pharmaceutical...
Ministers urge British boardrooms to sign cyber-resilience pledge as AI threat escalates
Ministers are turning up the heat on Britain’s biggest companies to fortify their cyber-defences, warning that a new generation of artificial intelligence tools, including Anthropic’s...