The huge changes to the welfare system, due to be announced next week, will see only the most severely disabled people ...

Rachel Reeves has insisted on the need to "get a grip" on the welfare bill, saying the system is not working for the taxpayer ...

The Chancellor of the Exchequer visited Babcock in Rosyth this morning, as she announced a £2bn boost for defence spending in the UK.

The GDP figures for January won’t have made happy reading for Rachel Reeves this morning, with GDP down 0.1 per cent on the ...

Britain's economy unexpectedly shrank in January, official data showed Friday, piling more pressure on the Labour government ahead of its Spring Statement on the economy.

The British economy unexpectedly shrank during January, piling pressure on Treasury chief Rachel Reeves before a key ...

The U.K. finance minister blamed a changing world—an implicit nod to President Donald Trump 's unfurling trade war—for the shrinking size of the British economy. "The world has changed and across the ...

It’s hardly the news Rachel Reeves would have wished for with fewer than two weeks until her Spring Statement.

Britain's economy unexpectedly contracted in January, extending a run of stop-start data that has dogged finance minister ...

The U.K. economy unexpectedly shrank in the first month of the year, the latest frustration for a relatively new government that has pledged to bring an end to a decade-and-a-half of stagnation.

GDP headache for chancellor ahead of budget GDP shrank as the year started, declining 0.1% in January against expectations for a 0.1% expansion. Industrial output was largely to blame, according to ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's economic output contracted unexpectedly by 0.1% in January, pulled down by a sharp drop in ...