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Plan to make firms pay more to train older workers than youth apprentices in England
Exclusive: Ministers considering overhaul of apprenticeship funding scheme to tackle youth jobs crisis
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Extreme heatwaves in Europe not changing Britons’ holiday plans, say travel bosses
Hot summer getaways are still popular – but tourism industry fears impact of rising jet fuel costs and squeeze...
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IMF suggests UK should cut spending rather than raise taxes on banks, as Healey prepares budget raid – as it happened
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Target pensions or welfare, not banks, IMF tells John Healey
Supporters of planned tax, however, say banks were bailed out by taxpayers during the financial crisis and can...
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UK risks losing key role in European space industry over satellite contract, says Airbus boss
Guillaume Faury writes to Andy Burnham warning him against choosing US firm Lockheed Martin to build Skynet sa...
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British food and drink exports to EU collapse by more than a third since Brexit
NFU analysis of official data shows falls in exports to UK’s largest trading partner since 2019 include 70% fo...
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People in the US: what is your personal ‘recession indicator’?
We’d like to hear about whether you feel like the US is in a recession and what you think signals such a downt...
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Ofgem could force energy suppliers to pay rivals if they lure customers with cheaper deals
Regulator for Great Britain weighs up reintroducing market stabilisation charge to prevent firms going bust
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The water torture goes on at Thames. Sector-wide reform isn’t moving much faster
If ‘public control’ bit is delaying overhaul, that needs to be nailed down sharpish or continued uncertainty c...
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Thames Water asks for £2.4bn more to avoid going bust this year or early 2027
Water company tells creditors it will not survive long enough to agree refinancing deal without more money
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Nobel Prize for economics awarded to Hall and Woodford for work on ‘smoothing’ crises
US economists developed models that help central bankers and finance ministers to stabilise their economies
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France’s dilemma: protesters demand spending as markets require fiscal restraint
Waves of protests expose debt crisis faced by French government, but political wrangling is stalling an escape...