Business

Chancellor Rachel Reeves will deliver her first budget at the end of October, providing the first chance for her to change the fiscal rules.Read More

The majority owner of Mulberry has called on Mike Ashley's Frasers Group to abandon its takeover interest in the struggling luxury brand.Read More

P&O Ferries is one of the few subjects on which Britain's political class agree. Its summary sacking of 800 British seafarers and their replacement with cheaper, largely foreign agency staff is universally considered one of the most outrageous acts in the recent history of labour relations.Read More

A backer of leading British fintechs including Tide and Zopa will this week name one of the founders of Lovefilm as its new chairman.Read More

A British-based investment and banking app has struck a deal to acquire part of a Gibraltar-based rival that will instantly add tens of thousands of customers to its business.Read More

Firms are pausing hiring new staff while executives are selling off shares in UK-listed companies amid worries over the possible impacts of the chancellor's first budget, it has been claimed.Read More

Sir Keir Starmer will urge Britain's economic regulators to prioritise their mandates to stimulate economic growth as part of a pitch next week aimed at wooing global investors.Read More

The government's Investment Summit has suffered a major blow after ports and logistics giant DP World pulled a scheduled announcement of a £1bn investment in its London Gateway container port, following criticism by members of Sir Keir Starmer's cabinet.Read More

One of the world's most successful private equity chiefs is being lined up to help fund a takeover of The Observer, the world's oldest Sunday newspaper.Read More