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ANALYSIS: CBI boss Rain Newton-Smith said Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves’s Budget has hit businesses, forcing them to consider expenditure on staff. Howard Mustoe explains what that means for the jobs market

Watch live as Rachel Reeves delivers her CBI speech on Monday (25 November) as the chancellor insists there is “no alternative” to tax rises.

There is a generational divide when it comes to QR codes and I am on the far side of it. But there’s going to be more, many more of them around, according to this paper’s genius business editor, Jonathan Prynn. It’s all about the increase in employers’ National Insurance in…

In her first major speech since succeeding Rishi Sunak, the Tory leader said she was not surprised at how many bosses flocked to meet Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves before the general election

Scottish Finance Secretary Shona Robison accused the UK Government of ‘austerity through the back door’.

Confederation of British Industry chief executive Rain Newton-Smith said firms face tough decisions on hiring and investment due to the Budget.

THE UK Government has said it will give the Scottish Government an additional £300 million to cover the planned increase to employers’ National…

A survey of 400 business owners across all sectors found that almost 60 per cent have put hiring plans on hold as a result of the National Insurance rise

CBI chief Rain Newton-Smith said that business had been caught ‘off-guard’ by national insurance hikes

Tory leader says she will not ‘comment on every bit of micro-policy’

Kingfisher says it faced weak market in October, as Greggs also complains of cost of national insurance increase