The UK’s high streets have reached a tipping point – and Reform will reap the benefits

When even Poundland and charity shops are closing, we’re near a point of no return. But there is hope, says Guardian columnist John Harris

Lloyds CEO Charlie Nunn latest banking boss in line for huge bonus hike

Barclays, HSBC and NatWest shareholders already approved big pay rises after post Brexit loosening of remuneration rules

Starmer rules out EU financial services alignment talks

City firms welcome clarity as government signals it will not reopen Brussels-era rules, despite closer cooperation elsewhere

Reeves’s promise of pub business rates U-turn averts Labour rebellion

Change in England largely welcomed by industry and Labour MPs but represents another climbdown

Here’s why Labour is struggling to deliver: the British state is immense, but pull the levers and nothing happens

At home, the machinery of government creaks badly – abroad, a leaden UK lags far behind dynamic competitors. A radical overhaul is needed, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott

Starmer vows to review franchise legislation in response to Vodafone case

Prime minister to ‘look closely’ at outcome of legal claims against FTSE 100 telecoms group

Fujitsu ‘not a parasite’, boss says while refusing to give redress figure for Horizon IT scandal victims

Paul Patterson questioned by MPs as firm continues to make millions from UK government contracts

Collapse of ‘zombie’ UK firms forecast to fuel unemployment in 2026

Businesses being hit by rising cost of interest rates, energy costs and wages, says Resolution Foundation

Uber rewrites contracts with drivers to avoid paying UK’s new ‘taxi tax’

Hailing app will now act as agent rather than supplier outside London, avoiding VAT requirement

Ministers may cut green tech mandate from new homes regulations in England

Critics say removing battery installation requirement will reduce amount homebuyers save on energy bills

China forecast to have sold one in every 10 new cars in UK in 2025

Carmakers such as MG, BYD and Chery are set to pass 200,000 mark in sales, analysis suggests, double 2024’s total

Zack Polanski offering voters fantasy solutions, says head of Fabian Society

Joe Dromey, head of the Labour thinktank, urges his party to take on the ‘twin populisms’ of Reform UK and the Greens

UK consumers still reluctant to spend going into 2026, KPMG survey finds

Combination of concern about economy and household cost pressures will continue to limit spending, report suggests

Help UK ceramics industry or ‘lose piece of national identity’, government told

Unions and thinktank urge action to save sector hit by sky-high energy bills, cheap imports and underinvestment

Sustainable aviation fuel take-up in UK unlikely to hit 2025 target, data suggests

Provisional figures in government mandate’s first year show 20% shortfall in levels of SAF supplied for UK flights