Simon Walters, The Independent Rachel Reeves has been blamed by Liz Truss for a dramatic drop in the value of the pound which ...

There was a thick, hard frost this morning. The fountain in Trafalgar Square has frozen solid. A dozen people spent the night ...

After a sharp rise in borrowing costs, the chancellor is now at the mercy of events rather than in control of them, writes James Moore. And it’s mostly her own doing ...

The new year has brought a head-splitting hangover for Britain’s government. Gilts—British government bonds—have sold off ...

Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss has accused UK PM Keir Starmer of defamation over claims she ‘crashed the economy’. In a legal warning, Truss’s lawyers argue that market turmoil during her tenure w ...

Liz Truss’s legal "cease and desist" letter to Sir Keir Starmer demanding he stop saying she "crashed the economy" was done ...

The issuing of this cease-and-desist letter makes sense only to one person: Liz Truss. For her, it is another blow against ...

Shipping services firm Clarkson expects results for 2024 to be "slightly ahead of current market expectations". The firm expects underlying pretax profit of no less than GBP115 million. It would ...

A £369m reno of Buckingham Palace and a £46m national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II – both funded from the public purse - were never going ...

Life cannot be fun for Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves at the moment – in fact it must be excruciating. And rightly so. Their ...

Bond markets in a handful of big economies are in a tailspin. Major sell-offs in places like the US, UK and France have sent ...

London: Liz Truss, whose record brief stint as prime minister saw the pound plunge and Britain’s borrowing costs rise, has ...