One economist says December’s employment figures were positive, breaking the trend of job gains lagging population growth.

The use of borrowing to buy these could, without intervention, have brought the whole system down. Hence Labour’s charge that ...

Mr Miller, for example, has said that mass removals would create jobs for Americans and increase wages. Whether that proves ...

History will not be as kind to Donald Trump if he gets Greenland from Denmark under duress. On January 7th the ...

BRITAIN was having a grim 1970s flashback last night with a debt crisis, the threat of strikes and an under-siege Labour ...

Rachel Reeves downplayed the prospect of further tax rises after last year’s record-breaking £40bn Budget, calling it a “once ...

UK construction growth has dropped to its lowest level in six months, with a significant slowdown in housebuilding casting ...

Labour will be forced to launch further tax raids before the next election due to weak growth during its government, leading ...

Seamus McGuinness is a research professor and the research area co-ordinator for labour market research at the Economic and Social Research Institute. Most of his published research has been in the ...

Hence Labour’s charge that the Tories ‘crashed the economy’. Keir Starmer’s Government, with its big Commons majority, came to office promising to restore economic stability and cut the ...