The national government has intervened in a local planning squabble, which has become a symbol for how far it will go to use development as a way to revive the British economy. One of the main streets ...

Steve Forbes shreds the U.K.’ s latest budget and explains why its higher taxes and the ending of jury trials will accelerate ...

Deputy prime minister David Lammy has suggested that rejoining the European Union’s customs union could increase economic ...

None’ of the Labour chancellor’s measures will ‘have a material effect’ on growth, Richard Hughes, the chair of the OBR, has ...

Finance minister Rachel Reeves has vowed for the past year to speed up Britain's economy but growth has slowed recently on ...

In announcing the measures, Rachel Reeves, the top economic official in an increasingly unpopular government, cited the ...

Britain’s unpopular center-left Labour government sought to seize the political narrative Wednesday with a tax-raising budget that it hopes will boost economic growth, reduce child poverty and ease ...