Three years after the Conservatives’ “Levelling Up” agenda was quietly shelved by the incoming Labour government, replaced by a new framework of “Regional Growth Missions,” the fundamental question that animated the original policy remains stubbornly unresolved: is the UK’s extreme…
The UK-EU Summit held in London last week, the first of its kind since Brexit, produced a package of agreements that the Starmer government hailed as “a new chapter in Britain’s relationship with Europe” — and that Brexit supporters immediately…
The government announced a landmark agreement with the UK’s largest pension funds on Wednesday under which the schemes will commit to investing a minimum of £50 billion in domestic infrastructure, clean energy and growth capital projects over the next five…
India has officially overtaken Japan to become the world’s third largest economy in nominal US dollar terms, according to the International Monetary Fund’s latest World Economic Outlook database published this week. With a GDP of $4.34 trillion in 2025, India…
Transatlantic trade tensions escalated significantly this week as the European Union confirmed it was preparing a package of retaliatory tariffs on US goods worth approximately €30 billion annually, in response to the sweeping import duties imposed by the Trump administration…
The debate over Scottish independence has been reignited this week following the publication of a comprehensive new economic prospectus by the Scottish National Party, which argues that an independent Scotland would be viable, prosperous and better placed to chart its…
NATO leaders meeting in London this week agreed a landmark defence spending package worth a collective £500 billion over five years, the most significant expansion of the alliance’s military investment programme since the Cold War, as member nations responded to…
The International Monetary Fund raised its forecast for global economic growth in 2026 to 3.2% in its World Economic Outlook published on Tuesday, an upward revision of 0.1 percentage point from January’s assessment, citing stronger-than-expected performance in major emerging market…
Reform UK is polling at its highest level since the 2024 general election as the party prepares for a series of local council elections in May 2026 that will be seen as a critical test of whether Nigel Farage’s populist…
Senior officials from the European Union and the United Kingdom resumed formal trade and cooperation talks in Brussels on Monday, the most substantive engagement between the two sides since the Trade and Cooperation Agreement came into force in January 2021.…
