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  • Monday, 2 June, 2025
    UK house prices
    UK house price growth in May exceeds forecasts

    Average cost of residential property rose 0.5% between April and May to £273,427

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    Signs from various estate agents, including "To Let" and "Sold" boards, are displayed outside a residential block of flats in Guildford, UK
  • Monday, 2 June, 2025
    Commercial property
    UK office construction drops to 10-year low

    Economic uncertainty hits sector in first quarter but London, Oxford and Cambridge buck trend, survey finds

    A high rise office block under construction in Blackpool
  • Monday, 2 June, 2025
    National Health Service
    NHS risks a ‘cycle of crises’ without 2.5% funding rise, think-tank warns

    Estimate by Health Foundation comes ahead of Rachel Reeves’ spending review

  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
    UK industrial strategy
    UK industrial strategy must deal with high energy costs, business warns

    Lobby groups call on Starmer to ensure imminent plan tackles power bills for wide range of companies

    A worker wearing safety gear grinding metal, producing sparks in a workshop
  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
    UK airports
    Ministers to fast-track London airspace redesign in push for growth

    New ‘airspace design service’ aims to vastly boost flight numbers but could mean new communities face noise pollution

    A British Airways Boeing 747 plane landing at Heathrow airport, west London
  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
    UK trade
    UK to urge Trump administration to implement zero-tariff steel accord

    Meeting between Jonathan Reynolds and Jamieson Greer follows vow by US president to double tariff to 50%

    An employee walks behind a steel ingot at Sheffield Forgemasters in Sheffield
  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
    Free LunchTej Parikh
    The UK doesn’t have a productivity puzzle Premium content

    The obstacles to higher growth in Britain are well known

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  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
    Dan Neidle
    Corporate tax returns don’t need 985 boxes

    Most countries adopt new rules in broad strokes; the UK embroiders them into baroque detail

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  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
    UK public policy
    NHS app to be expanded in effort to cut UK waiting lists

    Patients will be able to get test results, order prescriptions and choose hospital treatment on their phones

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  • Saturday, 31 May, 2025
    Buy-to-let
    Can you still make money from UK property?

    Thirty years on from the introduction of buy-to-let mortgages, landlords are struggling to make ends meet

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  • Saturday, 31 May, 2025
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    Return of 100% mortgage gathers pace as lenders target first-time buyers

    More no-deposit deals to come after launches this month, say industry figures

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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
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    NatWest returns to full private ownership 17 years after £46bn UK bailout

    Government sells final shares after rescue at height of financial crisis

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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Personal Finance
    Reader callout: would younger UK employees benefit by working on continent?
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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Andy Haldane
    Governments are chasing the wrong rainbows

    Opportunity and upward mobility are more important than GDP growth

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of a man holding a cracked flower pot containing a plant, with watering cans flying around it
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    UK manufacturing
    Toyota shifts more car production from Japan to UK amid tariff turmoil

    Plant in Derbyshire will make GR Corolla hatchbacks from next year

    Workers on the production line at Toyota’s Burnaston plant
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    UK foreign policy
    Budget cuts threaten UK soft power, warns government adviser

    Neil Mendoza says Britain must protect its leading position in higher education, science and the arts

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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    BoE policymaker plays down inflation risk in call for rate cuts

    Alan Taylor says price rises are being driven by one-off factors as he stressed hit from Trump trade war

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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    The Big Read
    The pitch for growth: will football help regenerate England’s cities?

    Clubs in several big cities want to use new stadiums to redevelop entire areas. But they seek government funding to make the projects work

    Montage image of stadiums in Liverpool and Manchester
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Interview
    Alan Taylor: we have flipped the switch from the ‘great moderation’

    The professor and MPC member on making monetary policy in an age of uncertainty

    Leonie Woods illustration of the portraits of Martin Wolf and Sam Fleming for Economists Exchange
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    News in-depthUK immigration
    ‘I’ve been tricked’: highly paid foreign workers reconsider ties to UK after rule change

    White-collar professionals fear being ‘kept in limbo’ after ministers extend waiting time for indefinite leave to remain

    Alexander Chreky
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Biofuels
    Commodities giant ADM exploits green fuel loophole, UK producers say

    US company benefits from double subsidy on biofuels as surge in imports threatens to wipe UK ethanol industry

    ADM Ethanol production facility
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    UK trade
    BoE governor urges UK government to seek closer trade ties with EU

    Andrew Bailey makes case for minimising negative effects of Brexit

    Andrew Bailey
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    Pensions industry
    UK to make it easier for companies to access pension surpluses

    Ministers want to release billions of pounds for investment

    One pound coins and pension pay advice
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    The State of Britain
    Reform UK inherits a financial firestorm in English councils Premium content

    Party faces familiar problem of finding large-scale savings while avoiding unpopular choices

    Reform UK leader Nigel Farage during the party’s campaign launch rally in Birmingham in March
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    Health
    Almost 2.5mn people in England estimated to have ADHD

    Only third of those with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are thought to have been diagnosed, data shows

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