3rd November 2022
More than a third of pubs, restaurants and hotels risk closure by 2023, as they struggle with fewer bookings and rising food and energy costs. A fresh interest rate rise on Thursday could deepen the […]
5th September 2022
Conservative leadership frontrunner Liz Truss is reportedly weighing up a business rate cut to help small firms struggling with inflation. The measure is thought to be one of a number of options under consideration to […]
9th August 2022
British sole traders and small businesses are taking steps to protect their businesses after the Bank of England warned the UK will slip into recession this year. The economy is forecast to shrink in the […]
26th May 2022
Small businesses are disproportionately affected by inflation because they are less able to pass cost increases onto customers, according to the new head of the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB). Following a visit to Downing […]
16th September 2017
The UK unemployment rate continued its record breaking fall, falling to 4.3% for the three months to July from 4.4% in the previous quarter. Wage growth, however, has been slower. And in real terms, wages […]
21st August 2017
Ten years after the start of the financial crisis real wages have yet to recover to peak pre-crisis levels. Although the employment rate is the highest on record at 74.9%, experts argue that workers are […]
24th July 2017
Figures on inflation released this week defied analyst expectations and fell for the first time since October 2016. Analysts expected the consumer price index, which is used to measure inflation, to remain at its four […]