From chancellor challenges to jobless-rate jitters, here are the key things to watch for the U.K. economy as the new year gets underway.
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A new year brings with it optimism for the coming 12 months
The main hope for the U.K. must be that 2026 proves to be better — for the economy, households and individual businesses — than 2025.
The economy entered the new year flatlining and, while in 2025 the FTSE 100
index enjoyed its best one-year gain since 2009, that was hardly indicative of the health of many individual businesses.
Ian King assesses how the U.K.’s economy and stock markets have fared during 2025, and tries to make sense of it all.
Along with higher energy costs, due to the Middle East conflict, U.K. tax changes promise to add to the unpopularity of the…
From better prospects for consumer spending to tentative signs of improving productivity, the doom and gloom of 2025 could be…
The U.K. is good at nurturing startups, but it struggles to help them scale up.
Cambridge has become one of the world’s leading hubs for deeptech and life sciences and is attracting growing sums of…
The U.K. capital’s reputation as a financial powerhouse is in question.
