The Latest Breaking News from UK Plc

For all the comedy drama of Donald Trump’s Scottish visit, the implications for UK Plc and London as its fulcrum are positive. Or rather, are a lot less negative than the EU-US trade deal, which left the EU Commission boss Ursula von der Leyen looking as if she had swallowed…

COMMENT : The hangover from Trump’s tariffs at the start of the year is proving tougher to shake than expected, writes James Moore – but there is a slight silver lining

City Voices: Gordon Brown has much to answer for when it comes to our stock market

City Comment: The OBR might offer the Chancellor a way to present his U-turn as in the interests of UK plc as a whole, not just London

Concerns raised over anonymous briefings that triggered early-hours resignation of Dame Alison Rose

UK plc has had a quartet of huge shocks to deal with —we must hope there’s not another on the way

The International Monetary Fund thinks UK plc will shrink 0.3%, and the only other advanced economy in the G7 group expected to decline is Germany’s, by 0.1%

Tomorrow, as Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivers his first Budget speech, he will be faced across the Despatch Box by Sir Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves. Yet his true opponents will be the ghosts of Conservatism’s recent past: Boris Johnson and the ethical crash that ended his shambolic premiership;…

The greatest asset of politicians is not subtlety or skill but a sense of unstoppability. The day after the latest slugfest TV debate in the Tory leadership race, we can argue about whether Rishi Sunak’s immigrant opportunity story was better than Liz’s gritty northern empathy for underserved children in poor…