Ministers vow to tackle all forms of water pollution in England and Wales

Exclusive: Commitment comes as data shows serious pollution events involving water firms up by 60%

Labour MPs challenge Richard Tice over Reform UK’s plan to scrap green projects

Exclusive: Letter signed by 59 MPs criticises party’s deputy leader after his warned energy firms over new contracts

London-Berlin trains on the drawing board for UK-German rail taskforce

Chance of direct services reignites hopes for better rail links across Europe as Starmer and Merz pledge to sign bilateral treaty

UK unemployment rises and wage growth slows as jobs market ‘weakens’

ONS data shows jobless rate climbing to highest rate since June 2021 with growth in average earnings slowing to 5%

Frasers Group sales fall amid ‘challenging’ luxury market and retreat from gaming

Pre-tax profits fall 24% despite rise in Sports Direct sales, driven by closures of House of Fraser and Game stores

Rise in unemployment shows UK jobs market is cooling, but it is not collapsing

Despite latest poor data wage growth remains resilient, and there are ‘signs of confidence returning’

Reform’s anti-renewables stance ‘putting jobs and energy bills at risk’

Industry says party’s threat to strip wind and solar subsidies if it enters power undermines national interest

High water bills, filthy rivers – and now drought. This is England’s great artificial water crisis of 2025

In its refusal to nationalise water, it’s clear the government operates in the interests of private capital and not of the country, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

‘There’s a bit of a queue forming’: how UK firms are enticing buyers for the next generation of fighter jets

Inside the hangars where robots are poised to keep the UK a top-tier military nation and continue more than a century of building military aircraft

Rachel Reeves warned by City grandees not to weaken banking safeguards

Chancellor’s plan to slash red tape could raise financial risks and do little to help households, say architects of UK’s post-2008 reforms

Ad agency WPP asked to work on campaign nudging UK savers to invest in shares

Exclusive: City-funded campaign is endorsed by government, and aims to increase financial risk-taking in effort to spur growth

Anti-corruption champion sent to UK offshore haven amid secrecy concerns

Foreign Office sending Margaret Hodge to British Virgin Islands to investigate slow progress against financial crime

Rachel Reeves is hoping deregulation will save the economy. We know how that ends

The chancellor’s emollient speech to City bosses this week was alarming. There are better ways to revive Britain’s fortunes, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott

Isa shakeup: How can Rachel Reeves nudge savers into buying stocks and shares?

All you need to know, from investment pros and cons to what changes are on the table and how best to take advantage

UK inflation rises unexpectedly to 3.6% driven by food and fuel prices

Annual increase in June follows warnings about increase in employment taxes leading to job cuts and higher prices