• November 5 2025
  Utilities

  Over half of UK’s water companies flagged over finances

  Regulator Ofwat is scrutinising 9 utilities over concerns about financial resilience

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• November 5 2025
  UK Broadband

  Openreach boss threatens to scrap UK fibre target in dispute with regulator

  Clive Selley also warns that tax rises in the Budget will undermine investment in internet coverage

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• November 5 2025
  UK services activity ticks higher in October amid resilient demand

  Businesses’ growth expectations also rebound to 12-month high despite economic uncertainty

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• November 5 2025
  Britain’s ‘fit note’ system faces shake-up to get more people back to work

  The reform will reinforce a new drive by employers to step up workplace health provision

  
• November 5 2025
  Katie Martin

  Bond markets are winning the Budget stand-off

  Gilts investors have long suspected that Labour would abandon its manifesto promises

  
• November 5 2025
  Automobiles

  Carmakers warn UK crackdown on Motability scheme will hit sales

  Programme helps fund vehicles for disabled people

  
• November 5 2025
  The Big Read

  Will higher defence spending boost the European economy?

  Deindustrialising regions hope for investment and jobs, but much will depend on how the extra money is spent

  
• November 5 2025
  Insurance

  Reeves to urge insurance bosses to increase investment in London

  Chancellor due to meet representatives from Lloyd’s of London, Hiscox and Convex

  
• November 5 2025
  Personal Finance

  AI to power new fight against scam callers

  UK telecoms groups to block ‘number spoofing’ scams from criminals in overseas call centres

  
• November 4 2025
  UK financial regulation

  UK accused of being too slow to regulate cloud services providers

  Minister says companies will be supervised by financial regulators from next year after MPs complain of sluggish action

  
• November 4 2025
  UK Autumn Budget 2025

  Reeves insists she will not resign if she raises income tax in the Budget

  Chancellor also gives strong hint that business faces higher levies on November 26

  
• November 4 2025
  London Underground Ltd

  London Tube workers reach pay deal after five-day strike in September

  RMT union members will receive salary increase of 3.4% backdated to April as part of three-year agreement

  
• November 4 2025
  Cryptocurrencies

  If an ex-chancellor pumps crypto and no one notices, does it make a noise?

  Kwasi be stacking, no one be caring

  
• November 4 2025
  Cryptocurrencies

  Former UK chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng backs bitcoin investment company

  Ex-politician infamous for 2022 mini-Budget will become non-executive director of Stack Bitcoin Treasury

  
• November 4 2025
  Martin Wolf

  The UK tax system is a mess — these are priorities for Reeves to reform

  The list of inconsistencies goes on and on. Nobody should have designed such an absurdity

  
• November 4 2025
  News in-depthUK Autumn Budget 2025

  Chancellor bets on the long-term — will she be around to reap the benefits?

  Chancellor lays groundwork for further tax rises in speech weeks ahead of Budget

  
• November 4 2025
  Inside Politics

  Inside England’s broken care economy

  Council-commissioned providers are fast losing headroom needed to improve pay and compete with other employers

  
• November 4 2025
  FT live news

  Rachel Reeves’ speech as it happened: Chancellor pledges to build bigger cushion in Budget to ‘withstand global turbulence’

  Opposition parties criticise chancellor over speech that opens door to manifesto-breaking income tax rise

  
• November 4 2025
  News in-depthMonetary Policy Radar

  Monetary Policy Radar preview: Dovish hold from Bank of England most likely

  The FT’s guide on what to look out for on Thursday

  
• November 4 2025
  Sarah O'Connor

  Why the job ladder matters for migrants

  Obstacles in progressing are important both for people and for the economy

  
• November 4 2025
  UK tax

  Starmer fuels expectations of income tax rise in Budget

  Prime minister tells Labour MPs he will reduce UK’s national debt without making deep spending cuts

  
• November 3 2025
  ExplainerUK tax

  What are Rachel Reeves’ tax options in the Budget?

  Chancellor examining wide range of measures in bid to fill fiscal hole of between £20bn and £30bn

  
• November 3 2025
  The FT ViewThe editorial board

  UK welfare reform is unavoidable

  Reforming the benefits system is vital to avoid ever-rising taxes

  
• November 3 2025
  National Health Service

  NHS productivity falls even as hospital efficiency in England rises

  Contrasting data points to gains in parts of health service not extending across wider sector

  
• November 3 2025
  Reform UK

  Farage drops tax-cut plans to focus on slashing public spending

  Reform leader sets out party’s ‘economic vision’ for Britain in bid to boost credibility on economy