UK growth forecast downgraded and unemployment will peak this year, chancellor reveals

Chancellor Rachel Reeves revealed the OBR's lastest economic forecast as she promised people would be £1,000 better off by ...

Reeves insists economic plan working in 'uncertain' world as UK growth forecast lowered for 2026

The chancellor says in her Spring Statement that unemployment will peak later this year and then fall every year of the forecast period until 2030.
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Spring Statement: Time to embrace ‘boring’ says Royal London’s Jenkins

In her Spring Statement this afternoon, the Chancellor is expected to be aiming to reassure businesses and project more of a sense of calm, than in her Budget ...

US warns of Iranian attack on Saudi oil city as Trump tells Tehran it's 'too late' to talk

The UK says it will send the HMS Dragon and helicopters with counter-drone capabilities to Cyprus, where the RAF Akrotiri base has been attacked by Iranian drones.

Israel attacks presidential office in Tehran as reported death toll in Iran rises to 787

One person inside Iran says "every part" of the capital has been hit. Elsewhere, Israel says ground troops will advance in ...

UK considering sending warship to Cyprus; government to charter flight from Oman ‘in the coming days’– as it happened

Multiple sources say the deployment of HMS Duncan is under consideration; Yvette Cooper says flight will take off from Muscat this week ...