Economy

The winter fuel mess, the farm inheritance tax u-turn and now the debacle over pubs: why can’t this government plan in advance?

The government’s business rates u-turn has brought temporary relief, but long-term trends suggest thousands more locals - especially in rural areas - will go

Labour's gamble believes that AI will steer everything in future. The risk of being left behind is too existential not to gamble

The GB News and Spectator owner says he always knew there would be short-term economic downsides to Brexit. He kept that quiet

Immigration crackdowns are cutting revenues from overseas students - and now some institutions are on the brink

The paper somehow tried to dress up the sharp fall as a humiliation for chancellor Rachel Reeves

In the aftermath of the budget, Starmer and Reeves have faced a wall of right wing rage. If he wants to win in 2029, he must take the heat out of UK politics

Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news

The chancellor recognises the power of getting children to read - now she must convince the parents

The chancellor used political tricks to deliver a softer budget than expected - but she is storing up economic pain

A government doesn’t get many chances to make real change. Today was one of those opportunities - the chancellor missed it

The newspaper has a long, proud history of getting it completely wrong - as one egregious example from history shows

It may be Thanksgiving, but as the country emerges from the longest government shutdown in history, life is about to get harder for many Americans

This isn’t journalism, it’s propaganda that reframes tax policy as assault and a democratically elected Labour government as thieves

As the G20 gathers in South Africa without the US, international deal-making faces another steep climb up the Everest of diplomacy

The chancellor should slash VAT and national insurance, but end the pension triple-lock. But she won’t dare

Rachel Reeves has performed a U-turn on tax, but global lenders have not reacted badly. In fact, for the chancellor, there is now light at the end of the tunnel

Luck has played a part in how the world’s billionaires gathered their wealth. The issue arises when they don’t quite see it this way

Who is the 'guru' telling Express readers how getting closer to the EU will kill growth in the face of overwhelming evidence?

The chancellor faces a tough challenge: writing a budget in a time of low growth. There’s an answer, but people won’t like it

Two showmen, $40bn and one very fragile economy: what could possibly go wrong?

The country’s politics may be fractious, but one thing both major camps agree on is that the rise of digital fraud needs urgent attention

The Prosperity Institute’s plans have been tried and failed

The richest 3600 Europeans hold as much wealth as the poorest 181 million, according to a new report by Oxfam

Big tech is using the ‘nanny state’ arguments pioneered by the tobacco and alcohol industries to convince us that their freedom to sell equates to our freedom to choose. The opposite is true

After just 27 days in office, France’s prime minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned and threw the country into chaos – again

Across the channel, rent control, land reform and social housing investment have kept greedy landlords and homelessness at bay. It’s not too late to change course

It’s clear who has the money in Britain, but any attempt to tax them would meet stiff resistance

People in their early 20s are growing up with no jobs, no help and no prospects. That is a problem for us all

Italy’s one-euro homes are becoming a nightmare for local authorities – so they’re selling them off

It was once a financial move for old age, but now, faced with stagnant wages and stubborn mortgage rates, younger homeowners are selling up and shrinking

Rising bills and housing costs, coupled with a precarious jobs market, have trapped many young people in lives they do not want