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The chancellor’s failure to reform or remove the energy profits levy (EPL) – AKA the North Sea windfall tax – in her spring forecast was a…

The government has defied gloomy price expectations for its latest auction for offshore wind capacity. The worry a few months ago was that bill payers would…

Will the employment rights bill be passed by Christmas? Well, the chances are slightly improved after six leading business groups published a temperature-lowering letter on Monday…

That’s gratitude, eh? It’s not even a fortnight since the government agreed to raise the prices the NHS pays for new medicines and here comes the…

If you want a document to give you sleepless nights, the Office for Budget Responsibility’s biennial Fiscal Risks and Sustainability report is a go-to publication. This…

It is easy, at the distance of a quarter of a century, to forget the full madness of the late-1990s dotcom bubble. The tech-heavy Nasdaq index…

It might be tempting, if you are sitting in Downing Street, to dismiss the current pre-budget howls from big business beasts as standard stuff from usual…

One reason to worry about the chancellor’s plan for deregulation in the financial services sector is the dramatic language in which she pitched it. Rachel Reeves’s…

Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, the two City traders whose convictions for manipulating a key benchmark interest rate were quashed on Wednesday by the supreme court,…

Rachel Reeves called it “the biggest set of reforms to financial regulation in a decade”, and, in one narrow sense, her Leeds Reforms would qualify for…