Gordon Brown calls for urgent budget help as 1 in 7 UK firms face collapse
Gordon Brown has referred to as for emergency measures to assist companies in the budget after new analysis from the
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Economics
Boohoo snaps up Debenhams for £55m; Asos in exclusive talks to buy Topshop – business live
3.28am EST 03:28 The World Economic Forum’s annual assembly has had to ditch the Swiss mountains of Davos and transfer
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Helping poorest tackle climate crisis will boost global growth, says IMF head
Helping essentially the most susceptible folks to deal with the climate crisis can boost the global economic system in the
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Labour bids to be seen as able and competent, not bold and radical | Larry Elliott
Big financial shocks have a tendency to do for prime ministers. Jim Callaghan was completed after the winter of discontent,
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Gordon Brown: 300,000 UK jobless hidden by official figures
The full scale of Britain’s jobs disaster is being underestimated as a result of a whole bunch of hundreds of
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Biden executive orders target federal minimum wage and food insecurity
Declaring the US authorities had a “moral obligation” to behave, Joe Biden signed a pair of executive orders meant to
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Low-paid workers in UK more than twice as likely to lose job in pandemic
The UK’s lowest-paid workers are more than twice as likely to have misplaced their jobs in the coronavirus pandemic than
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Moves by Kwarteng to attack workers’ rights may well run into a red wall
Tensions inside the cupboard are rising and the chances are high that they’re going to spark an almighty row in
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We’re on the verge of breakdown: a data scientist’s take on Trump and Biden
Peter Turchin is just not the first entomologist to cross over to human behaviour: throughout a lecture in 1975, famed
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Trump saw the economy was his ticket to a second term – then Covid struck
No time to waste. That was the message from Joe Biden as he introduced plans for a $1.9tn (£1.4tn) stimulus
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