BoE governor says half-point interest rate rise ‘on table’
Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey has raised the possibility of increasing interest rates by half a percentage point in...
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Truss gains ground on Sunak in Tory leadership race
Liz Truss, foreign secretary, on Tuesday narrowed the gap with trade minister Penny Mordaunt as they battled to join former...
Truss attacks Bank of England’s failure to tackle inflation
Foreign secretary Liz Truss has signalled that she would tighten ministerial scrutiny of the Bank of England if she were...
We should worry about price of food more than petrol, warns BlackRock’s Fink
The dramatic spikes in oil and mineral prices after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have distracted investors from the long-lasting and...
Truss promises £30bn tax cuts in bid to win over Tory rightwingers
Liz Truss’s bid to become prime minister has received a much-needed boost after leading Eurosceptics, including the attorney-general Suella Braverman,...
Stocks and bonds under pressure as markets price in larger US rate rises
Stocks dropped, government bonds sold off and the dollar ripped higher on Thursday, as red-hot inflation in the world’s largest...
The British still think heatwaves are fun — not for much longer
Last month, while on holiday in Sicily, my partner and I were warned by a local that the weather the...
Putin’s stamina for war will test the west’s resolve
The writer is a former editor of the Financial TimesThe mood in President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s bunker in Kyiv is sober,...
Live news updates: US producer prices rose 11.3% in June as inflation continued to soar
Netflix is partnering with Microsoft to build an advertisement-supported tier of its streaming service, as it races to offer a...
Conte warns Draghi over any shift on financial aid to Italian people
Italy’s populist Five Star Movement has demanded the national unity government of prime minister Mario Draghi provide more help to...
Ukraine: can Russia still win the war?
Russia has been at war in Ukraine for almost five months but “has not started anything in earnest yet”, President...
Mario Draghi offers to resign as Italy’s prime minister
Italy was plunged into political turmoil on Thursday when prime minister Mario Draghi offered to resign after a split in...
Mario Draghi’s government under threat as Italy’s Five Star boycotts vote
Italy’s populist Five Star Movement has refused to support Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s national unity government in a critical parliamentary...
Tory contenders jostle for position in leadership race as favourite declines to stand
One of the leading contenders to succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister has said he will not stand in the...
Johnson allies accuse Sunak of treachery
Rishi Sunak, who quit as Boris Johnson’s chancellor this week, launched his bid to lead the Conservative party on Friday...
Japan’s former PM Shinzo Abe shot in Nara
Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has been shot in the city of Nara, public broadcaster NHK reported on Friday.Abe...
Johnson sacks Gove as even allies tell him ‘game’s up’
Boris Johnson’s turbulent three-year premiership was nearing its end on Wednesday night after he was urged to quit by a...
Johnson on the brink after Sunak and Javid quit cabinet
Boris Johnson’s premiership was teetering on the brink on Tuesday night, after chancellor Rishi Sunak and health secretary Sajid Javid...
UK faces first national train drivers’ strike in 25 years
Protesters brought parts of the UK’s motorway network to a standstill on Monday in a demonstration over high fuel prices.Police...
Labour ready to fight Johnson over effects of Brexit, says Starmer
Sir Keir Starmer will on Monday signal that Labour is willing to fight Boris Johnson over his Brexit legacy at...
Chinese hackers kept up hiring drive despite FBI indictment
Hackers with suspected links to China’s intelligence agencies were still advertising for new recruits to work on cyber espionage, even...
