Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s planned inheritance tax overhaul on family businesses and agricultural land risks backfiring by leaving the Exchequer £1bn worse off than…
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Surrey County Council has admitted it does not have enough state school places to accommodate children transferring from private schools, following the government’s…
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Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary, is poised to rewrite Britain’s planning rules to clear the path for a massive expansion of wind and…
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Britain’s farmers are set to collectively lose around £600 million after poor growing conditions produced the second-worst wheat harvest on record. New figures…
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Britain’s workforce will slide to a record low as growing numbers of people too unwell to work dampen the economy’s future prospects, according…
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Royal Mail has been fined a record £10.5 million by the postal regulator after delivering more than a quarter of first-class letters late.…
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The UK economy unexpectedly shrank by 0.1 per cent in October, marking its second consecutive monthly decline, according to official data from the…
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More than 10,000 people running small businesses have enrolled in the Help to Grow: Management programme, a government-subsidised training initiative designed to enhance…
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Tangle Teezer, the British hairbrush company famously rejected by Dragons’ Den panellists seventeen years ago, has been acquired by French consumer goods giant…
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Make UK, the leading organisation representing British manufacturers, has announced Lord (Richard) Harrington as its new Chair. He will succeed Lord (John) Hutton,…