Oil at $100 drives mortgage rates back to a month-old high
British business owners hoping the summer would bring cheaper borrowing have been dealt a blow. Average UK mortgage rates have risen back to the level...
Burnham opens No10 North, but the SME payoff waits until 2032
Andy Burnham chose Manchester for the defining image of his new premiership this week, opening a temporary “No10 North” and telling staff it might be...
Record entries and 200 shortlisted: Britain’s small businesses defy the gloom at the UK’s flagship business awards
From a nine-generation family farm to a challenger radio station, the 2026 Lloyds British Business Excellence Awards shortlist tells a different story about British SMEs,...
James May rejects wealth tax as millionaires beg Burnham to tax them
James May has become an unlikely dissenter in the row over taxing Britain’s richest, breaking with the 120 UK millionaires, Gary Lineker among them, who...
Hardware is back: £14m backs a five-minute NHS lung test
A Cambridge start-up has pulled off something British hardware firms are rarely credited with: persuading investors to write a large cheque for a physical device...
Science department scrapped, but business cheers Reynolds return
The abolition of an entire Whitehall department rarely counts as good news for the firms that depend on it. Yet the business world’s response to...