Despite early strength, growth has slowed, borrowing risen sharply, and key labour and consumer indicators weakening ahead of the autumn fiscal statement

With flat growth, tax-raising budget and rising debt costs, Sir Keir Starmer’s government faces its first major test under unnamed electoral threat

Business Secretary Peter Kyle admits some wealthy individuals, including Lakshmi Mittal, are leaving the UK in response to tax policy changes

Investors watch Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s Autumn Budget closely amid borrowing stresses and self-imposed fiscal rules

Government aims to produce 10 % domestically, recycle 20 % and cap single-country sourcing at 60 % by 2035

Review finds Britain has become the most expensive place globally to build nuclear power plants and urges sweeping reform of planning, regulation and oversight

Proposed shift to an ‘earned settlement’ model would increase baseline residence for most migrants from five to ten years while introducing contribution and integration criteria

Internal disclosures and industry research reveal that the artificial-intelligence boom is colliding with real-world constraints on compute, power and data-centre capacity