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  • Trump threatens 100% tariff on French wine as Macron digs in over digital tax
  • Cut off from the world’s most powerful AI, Britain leans on Trump for a way back in
  • One in four UK manufacturers shift production abroad as energy bills bite
  • Retailers warn De Minimis delay will turn Britain into a ‘dumping ground’ for unsafe goods
  • NTIA backs Burnham for No 10 as night-time economy pleads for a VAT lifeline
  • Founders and MPs warn Reeves that Britain’s tax system is telling entrepreneurs to leave
  • From the Bank of Dave to the boardroom of Citi: business builders honoured in King’s birthday honours 2026
  • “We are coming for you”: HMRC declares war on dodgy high street shops with 30,000 raids planned
  • Small firms to pitch direct to Indian buyers as Great British Pitch returns with Downing Street backing
  • SpaceX shares rocket past listing price in historic stock market debut
President Trump has reopened his long-running feud with Paris, warning that he will slap a 100 per cent tariff on French wine and champagne unless President Macron abandons France's digital services tax, the 3 per cent levy that falls most heavily on America's biggest technology firms.

Trump threatens 100% tariff on French wine as Macron digs in over digital tax

President Trump has reopened his long-running feud with Paris, warning that he will slap a 100 per cent tariff on French wine and champagne unless President Macron abandons France’s digital services tax, the 3 per cent levy that falls most heavily on America’s biggest technology firms.

Canada's Cohere is tripling its physical footprint in the UK, signing a lease on a new London office as it races to position itself as the credible alternative to American rivals OpenAI and Anthropic for governments and regulated businesses nervous about handing their data to Silicon Valley.

Cohere triples its London base to cash in on Britain’s sovereign AI bet

Canadian AI firm Cohere is tripling its London office at 100 New Oxford Street, betting on surging UK government and enterprise demand for sovereign AI.

Sir Keir Starmer has condemned Donald Trump’s threat to impose sweeping tariffs on the UK and other European allies over Greenland, calling the move “completely wrong” and warning it undermines Nato unity.

Cut off from the world’s most powerful AI, Britain leans on Trump for a way back in

Downing Street is lobbying the White House for a UK carve-out after Donald Trump banned foreign access to Anthropic’s most advanced Claude models, citing security risks.

Fox Corporation is buying Roku in a cash-and-share deal worth roughly $22bn (about £16.3bn), a bet that bolting its sports and news output onto America's best-known streaming platform will shore up its position as audiences drift away from traditional television.

Fox bets $22bn on Roku as Lachlan Murdoch chases the streaming living room

Fox Corporation is buying Roku in a $22bn cash-and-share deal, handing Lachlan Murdoch access to 100m+ households as the media group pivots from cable to streaming.

Ministers have set the UK on course to bar under-16s from mainstream social media, but the business and technology figures who will have to live with the policy are far from convinced it will work.

Under-16s social media ban branded ‘impractical, illiberal and undesirable’ as industry rounds on government

Experts warn the UK’s under-16s social media ban is ‘impractical’ and no silver bullet. Business Matters rounds up the industry reaction and what platforms must do next.

There is no escaping the noise around artificial intelligence. Yet behind the breathless launches and boardroom enthusiasm sits a far more sober question, and it is one MPs are now determined to answer: are British businesses, and the workers inside them, actually getting anything out of it?

Beyond the hype: what do British businesses really make of AI?

As MPs launch an inquiry into AI and the future of work, Business Matters asks what British firms really gain from artificial intelligence, and what is holding smaller businesses back.

A quarter of British manufacturers have moved some operations overseas or are weighing it up, blaming energy costs that Make UK says have left the sector "uncompetitive" against foreign rivals.

One in four UK manufacturers shift production abroad as energy bills bite

A quarter of UK manufacturers have moved production overseas or are considering it, as Make UK warns that the highest energy costs in the world are driving deindustrialisation.

Britain risks losing yet more high street shops, and becoming a dumping ground for unsafe imports, unless ministers move faster to close a tax loophole being exploited by overseas sellers, retailers have warned.

Retailers warn De Minimis delay will turn Britain into a ‘dumping ground’ for unsafe goods

Retailers warn that delaying abolition of the £135 de minimis customs threshold until 2029 will cost more high street shops and let unsafe imports flood Britain as the US and EU tighten the rules.

Britain's night-time economy has rarely been short of warnings about its own mortality. What is new is the willingness of its trade body to name a politician it believes can do something about it.

NTIA backs Burnham for No 10 as night-time economy pleads for a VAT lifeline

The NTIA has thrown its weight behind Andy Burnham’s call to cut VAT on hospitality and the night-time economy, warning the sector cannot survive three more years of rising costs.

  1. Trump threatens 100% tariff on French wine as Macron digs in over digital tax
  2. Cohere triples its London base to cash in on Britain’s sovereign AI bet
  3. Cut off from the world’s most powerful AI, Britain leans on Trump for a way back in
  4. Fox bets $22bn on Roku as Lachlan Murdoch chases the streaming living room
  5. Under-16s social media ban branded ‘impractical, illiberal and undesirable’ as industry rounds on government
  6. Beyond the hype: what do British businesses really make of AI?
  7. One in four UK manufacturers shift production abroad as energy bills bite
  8. Retailers warn De Minimis delay will turn Britain into a ‘dumping ground’ for unsafe goods
  9. NTIA backs Burnham for No 10 as night-time economy pleads for a VAT lifeline

Latest News…

President Trump has reopened his long-running feud with Paris, warning that he will slap a 100 per cent tariff on French wine and champagne unless President Macron abandons France's digital services tax, the 3 per cent levy that falls most heavily on America's biggest technology firms.

Trump threatens 100% tariff on French wine as Macron digs in over digital tax

President Trump has reopened his long-running feud with Paris, warning that he will slap a 100 per cent tariff on French wine and champagne unless President Macron abandons France’s digital services tax, the 3 per cent levy that falls most heavily on America’s biggest technology firms.

Sir Keir Starmer has condemned Donald Trump’s threat to impose sweeping tariffs on the UK and other European allies over Greenland, calling the move “completely wrong” and warning it undermines Nato unity.

Cut off from the world’s most powerful AI, Britain leans on Trump for a way back in

Downing Street is lobbying the White House for a UK carve-out after Donald Trump banned foreign access to Anthropic’s most advanced Claude models, citing security risks.

A quarter of British manufacturers have moved some operations overseas or are weighing it up, blaming energy costs that Make UK says have left the sector "uncompetitive" against foreign rivals.

One in four UK manufacturers shift production abroad as energy bills bite

A quarter of UK manufacturers have moved production overseas or are considering it, as Make UK warns that the highest energy costs in the world are driving deindustrialisation.

Britain risks losing yet more high street shops, and becoming a dumping ground for unsafe imports, unless ministers move faster to close a tax loophole being exploited by overseas sellers, retailers have warned.

Retailers warn De Minimis delay will turn Britain into a ‘dumping ground’ for unsafe goods

Retailers warn that delaying abolition of the £135 de minimis customs threshold until 2029 will cost more high street shops and let unsafe imports flood Britain as the US and EU tighten the rules.

Britain's night-time economy has rarely been short of warnings about its own mortality. What is new is the willingness of its trade body to name a politician it believes can do something about it.

NTIA backs Burnham for No 10 as night-time economy pleads for a VAT lifeline

The NTIA has thrown its weight behind Andy Burnham’s call to cut VAT on hospitality and the night-time economy, warning the sector cannot survive three more years of rising costs.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered her Spring Statement to the House of Commons under the shadow of escalating conflict in the Middle East and mounting fears of a renewed inflation shock driven by surging energy prices.

Founders and MPs warn Reeves that Britain’s tax system is telling entrepreneurs to leave

More than 90 business leaders and 19 MPs have written to Rachel Reeves warning that a “death by a thousand cuts” on tax is driving Britain’s founders abroad.

Britain's entrepreneurs have taken centre stage in the King's Birthday Honours List 2026, published on Friday evening, with damehoods, knighthoods and a sweep of CBEs, OBEs and MBEs recognising the founders, family firms and FTSE bosses who keep the UK economy moving.

From the Bank of Dave to the boardroom of Citi: business builders honoured in King’s birthday honours 2026

From Bank of Dave founder David Fishwick to Citigroup chief Jane Fraser, we round up the entrepreneurs and business leaders recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours 2026.

HMRC will carry out more than 30,000 interventions on Britain's high streets over the coming year, in what amounts to the most aggressive campaign yet against the vape shops, barbers, candy stores and convenience stores being used as fronts for tax fraud and money laundering.

“We are coming for you”: HMRC declares war on dodgy high street shops with 30,000 raids planned

HMRC will make more than 30,000 high street interventions in 2026/27, targeting vape shops, barbers and souvenir stores used as fronts for tax fraud and money laundering.

More than 40 export-ready British small businesses will pitch live to Indian buyers next week, as the Great British Pitch returns for 2026 with a sharpened focus on international growth, and a Downing Street reception hosted by the Chancellor to mark the occasion.

Small firms to pitch direct to Indian buyers as Great British Pitch returns with Downing Street backing

Great British Pitch India launches on 16 June, giving 40+ UK small businesses the chance to pitch live to Indian buyers, backed by the Chancellor and the DBT.

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Business

Ministers have set the UK on course to bar under-16s from mainstream social media, but the business and technology figures who will have to live with the policy are far from convinced it will work.

Under-16s social media ban branded ‘impractical, illiberal and undesirable’ as industry rounds on government

Experts warn the UK’s under-16s social media ban is ‘impractical’ and no silver bullet. Business Matters rounds up the industry reaction and what platforms must do next.

There is no escaping the noise around artificial intelligence. Yet behind the breathless launches and boardroom enthusiasm sits a far more sober question, and it is one MPs are now determined to answer: are British businesses, and the workers inside them, actually getting anything out of it?

Beyond the hype: what do British businesses really make of AI?

As MPs launch an inquiry into AI and the future of work, Business Matters asks what British firms really gain from artificial intelligence, and what is holding smaller businesses back.

Barclays is buying children's money app GoHenry in a deal worth an estimated £180m, the latest acquisition in CS Venkatakrishnan's UK expansion drive.

Barclays snaps up children’s money app GoHenry in £180m bet on customers for life

Barclays is buying children’s money app GoHenry in a deal worth an estimated £180m, the latest acquisition in CS Venkatakrishnan’s UK expansion drive.

New research from Allentra USA and Mathys & Squire reveals a consistent pattern of intellectual property exposure among growth-stage UK businesses planning, or already trading in, the United States.

Three in four UK firms heading for America have no US trademark protection, research finds

New research reveals 76% of UK companies expanding into the US have no USPTO trademark protection, leaving brands and patents dangerously exposed.

Britain's love affair with the weight loss jab is rewriting the nation's shopping list, and supermarkets are counting the cost. New figures from Worldpanel by Numerator reveal that grocery spending among households using GLP-1 medication has fallen by £780 million, with 299 million fewer packs passing through the tills.

Weight loss jabs wipe £780 million off Britain’s grocery bills as user numbers nearly triple

GLP-1 weight loss drug use in Britain has nearly tripled in two years, wiping £780m off grocery spending. Crisps and chocolate suffer while gum and mouthwash boom.

West Yorkshire's ambition to rival the capital as a technology powerhouse has taken a significant step forward with the launch of Tech West Yorkshire, a new umbrella organisation backed by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority and championed by Mayor Tracy Brabin.

Brabin backs Tech West Yorkshire as region bids to become UK’s leading tech hub outside London

Mayor Tracy Brabin backs Tech West Yorkshire, a new body uniting 9,700 digital firms across Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Calderdale and Kirklees to build a leading UK tech hub.

Amazon has opened a new fulfilment centre in Northampton and confirmed plans for a second major site in nearby Kettering, taking its investment in Northamptonshire to more than £1 billion and creating in excess of 4,000 jobs in a single county.

Amazon pours £1bn into Northamptonshire as 4,000 jobs head to the East Midlands

Amazon opens a £500m robotic fulfilment centre in Northampton and confirms the UK’s largest cross-dock facility for Kettering, taking its Northamptonshire investment past £1bn and creating 4,000 jobs.

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Kanya King CBE, the entrepreneur who remortgaged her home to launch the MOBO Awards and went on to reshape the British music industry, has died aged 57.

Kanya King, the single mother who remortgaged her home to build the MOBO Awards, dies aged 57

Kanya King CBE, the entrepreneur who remortgaged her home to launch the MOBO Awards and went on to reshape the British music industry, has died aged 57.

John Caudwell, the billionaire founder of Phones4U and one of Labour's most high-profile business backers at the last election, has declared there is "no chance" he will vote for the party again, and revealed he is in talks with the Conservative shadow cabinet about a possible return to the Tory fold.

Caudwell turns on ‘disastrous’ Starmer: billionaire Labour backer says he was misled and may bankroll the tories again

Billionaire Phones4U founder John Caudwell tells Business Matters he was ‘misled’ by Labour’s pro-business promises and could back the Tories at the next election.

Marketing & Social Media

The owner of Facebook and Instagram will cut another 10,000 jobs, months after laying off 11,000 staff, as the technology group prepares for years of economic disruption.

Meta launches high court challenge against Ofcom over online safety act fines

Mark Zuckerberg

Meta to axe 8,000 jobs in May as Zuckerberg bets the house on AI

Nigel Farage has invested £215,000 in a cryptocurrency business chaired by former UK chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, underscoring the growing overlap between politics and the digital asset sector.

Reform UK becomes first British political party to launch its own podcast

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Canada's Cohere is tripling its physical footprint in the UK, signing a lease on a new London office as it races to position itself as the credible alternative to American rivals OpenAI and Anthropic for governments and regulated businesses nervous about handing their data to Silicon Valley.

Cohere triples its London base to cash in on Britain’s sovereign AI bet

Canadian AI firm Cohere is tripling its London office at 100 New Oxford Street, betting on surging UK government and enterprise demand for sovereign AI.

Fox Corporation is buying Roku in a cash-and-share deal worth roughly $22bn (about £16.3bn), a bet that bolting its sports and news output onto America's best-known streaming platform will shore up its position as audiences drift away from traditional television.

Fox bets $22bn on Roku as Lachlan Murdoch chases the streaming living room

Fox Corporation is buying Roku in a $22bn cash-and-share deal, handing Lachlan Murdoch access to 100m+ households as the media group pivots from cable to streaming.

Barclays is buying children's money app GoHenry in a deal worth an estimated £180m, the latest acquisition in CS Venkatakrishnan's UK expansion drive.

Barclays snaps up children’s money app GoHenry in £180m bet on customers for life

Barclays is buying children’s money app GoHenry in a deal worth an estimated £180m, the latest acquisition in CS Venkatakrishnan’s UK expansion drive.

SpaceX shares surged on their stock market debut on Friday, racing past the $135 listing price to touch $150 as investors scrambled for a stake in Elon Musk's vision of space, satellite and AI dominance.

SpaceX shares rocket past listing price in historic stock market debut

SpaceX shares surged past their $135 IPO price to hit $150 on debut, as investors piled into Elon Musk’s $1.75tn space and satellite empire. But can the gains last?

Irish payments firm Trustap has raised $10 million to position itself as the trusted transaction layer for the fast-emerging world of agentic commerce, where AI assistants shop, haggle and pay on behalf of their human owners.

Trustap raises $10m to become the payment layer AI shopping agents can trust

Irish fintech Trustap has raised $10m led by Aperture Capital to launch Trustap Index, making marketplace listings discoverable and transactable by AI shopping agents.

West Yorkshire's ambition to rival the capital as a technology powerhouse has taken a significant step forward with the launch of Tech West Yorkshire, a new umbrella organisation backed by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority and championed by Mayor Tracy Brabin.

Brabin backs Tech West Yorkshire as region bids to become UK’s leading tech hub outside London

Mayor Tracy Brabin backs Tech West Yorkshire, a new body uniting 9,700 digital firms across Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Calderdale and Kirklees to build a leading UK tech hub.

WH Smith is asking shareholders for around £100 million in fresh capital after cutting its full-year profit guidance, blaming a sharp slowdown in its United States business and the fallout from the US-Iran conflict.

WH Smith turns to investors for £100m lifeline as US slowdown and Middle East conflict trigger profit warning

WH Smith is raising £100m through a share placing after cutting profit guidance, blaming a US sales slump and fallout from the US-Iran conflict.

A Reading start-up is betting that the future of the space economy lies not further out, but lower down, and it has just raised £13.8 million to prove the point.

Reading start-up NewOrbit raises £13.8m to fly satellites where Elon Musk won’t

Reading-based NewOrbit has raised £13.8m to launch the world’s first commercial satellite built for very low Earth orbit, a potential British rival to Elon Musk’s Starlink.

America remains a growth market for British businesses, but slower corporate profits, sticky inflation and a patchwork of state-level rules mean the bar for success has been raised, according to leading audit, tax and advisory firm Blick Rothenberg.

UK firms need a sharper strategy to win in a changing American economy

America is still growing, but British firms eyeing the US in 2026 need sharper regional targeting, disciplined pricing and a realistic view of cost, says Blick Rothenberg.

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Legal

New research from Allentra USA and Mathys & Squire reveals a consistent pattern of intellectual property exposure among growth-stage UK businesses planning, or already trading in, the United States.

Three in four UK firms heading for America have no US trademark protection, research finds

New research reveals 76% of UK companies expanding into the US have no USPTO trademark protection, leaving brands and patents dangerously exposed.

HM Revenue & Customs has fired a fresh warning shot at Britain’s flexible workforce, urging an estimated 700,000 umbrella workers, and the agencies and end-clients that engage them, to steer well clear of a rapidly growing scheme that claims, falsely, that personal IOUs can be used to settle a tax bill.

HMRC warns 700,000 umbrella workers over ‘bills of exchange’ tax avoidance scam

Promoters in the recruitment and temporary labour sector are pushing a bogus payment ‘trick’ that HMRC says has no legal foundation — and SMEs further down the supply chain risk being dragged in.

The chief executive of US fintech Bolt has mounted a robust defence of his decision to sack the company's entire human resources department, telling a Fortune audience that the team "created problems that didn't exist" and that those issues "disappeared" the moment he showed them the door.

Bolt boss defends sacking entire HR team, claiming staff ‘invented problems that didn’t exist’

Bolt chief executive Ryan Breslow has defended axing the fintech’s entire HR department, claiming the team “created problems that didn’t exist” as the firm slashes headcount and pivots to an AI-first model.

Britain's small and medium-sized businesses have been put on notice. From 19 June 2026, exactly one month from today, every organisation that handles personal data will, by law, be required to operate a formal complaints process. Those that fail to prepare risk regulatory action, reputational damage and the slow drip of customer trust eroding away.

ICO Warns SMEs: one month to comply with new Data Complaints Law

UK businesses have just four weeks to put a statutory data protection complaints process in place before the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 takes effect on 19 June 2026. Here’s what SMEs must do.

An Isle of Man trading-education platform has won a two-year trade mark battle against TikTok’s UK arm, in a ruling small business advisers say sets a powerful precedent for founders facing legal pressure from global tech giants.

How a 50-person start-up beat TikTok at the IPO – with Lord Sugar in its corner

An Isle of Man fintech start-up has beaten TikTok at the UK Intellectual Property Office, winning a two-year trade mark fight backed by Lord Sugar’s Trade Mark Wizards, and TikTok has been ordered to pay costs

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Platforms has suffered a significant legal setback in Europe after the bloc's highest court ruled that national regulators have the power to enforce compensation arrangements between online platforms and news publishers for the use of their journalism.

Meta dealt blow by EU court in landmark ruling on publisher payments

Meta has lost a pivotal EU court case after challenging Italy’s right to set compensation for press content. The ruling strengthens publishers’ hand in negotiations with Big Tech platforms over snippets and AI training data.

Tesco has suffered a significant setback in the long-running equal pay battle being waged by tens of thousands of its shop floor staff, after the Court of Appeal threw out the supermarket’s challenge to the way an Employment Tribunal had been assessing the value of jobs carried out by its customer assistants.

Tesco loses court of appeal fight over equal pay job assessment in landmark ruling for SME and retail employers

Tesco has lost its Court of Appeal challenge to the way tribunals assess job value in the £multi-million equal pay claim brought by 16,000 shop workers — with significant implications for UK employers.

Mike Ashley's retail empire has scored a notable courtroom victory after the Court of Appeal threw out a substantial damages award handed down in a protracted trademark infringement dispute, sparing the FTSE-listed group what could have proved a punishing financial blow.

Ashley’s Frasers group dodges hefty damages bill in trademark appeal victory

Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group has overturned damages in a long-running trademark battle with Beverly Hills Polo Club owner Lifestyle Equities, after the Court of Appeal ruled licensee claims were filed too late.

The owner of Facebook and Instagram will cut another 10,000 jobs, months after laying off 11,000 staff, as the technology group prepares for years of economic disruption.

Meta launches high court challenge against Ofcom over online safety act fines

Meta has launched a judicial review against Ofcom, arguing the regulator’s fees and fines regime under the Online Safety Act is disproportionate and unfairly tied to global revenue.

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Made in Britain

An Argyll-based manufacturing firm is targeting 20 per cent year-on-year growth in the global awards sector after investing nearly half a million pounds in new production technology.

Custom acrylic manufacturer Midton targets 20% annual growth after £429,000 tech investment at Argyll foundry

Argyll-based Midton is expanding its acrylic awards manufacturing capacity following a £429,000 investment in new biomass-powered technology.

The Made in Britain organisation has raised concerns over Reform UK’s alleged use of a logo resembling its own, stressing political neutrality and lack of authorisation.

‘Made in Britain’ body challenges Reform UK over alleged unauthorised logo use

The Made in Britain organisation has raised concerns over Reform UK’s alleged use of a logo resembling its own, stressing political neutrality and lack of authorisation.

As the Labour Party Conference kicks off this weekend, Made in Britain, a trade association that unites domestic manufacturers through the official Made in Britain Trademark, has issued a cross-party call for MPs to actively support local manufacturers.

Made in Britain applications surge following Trump tariffs as businesses embrace UK-made goods

The UK’s leading manufacturing trade organisation, Made in Britain, has reported a 20% surge in membership applications in the wake of President Trump’s sweeping new tariffs on imported goods, as interest in “buying British” grows among businesses and consumers alike.

Made in Britain, the not-for-profit organisation behind the official trademark for UK manufacturing, has forged a new partnership with Lincoln-based digital marketing agency Carrington.

Made in Britain teams up with Carrington to drive UK manufacturing growth

Made in Britain, the official trademark for UK manufacturers, has appointed digital marketing agency Carrington to boost visibility for 2,100+ members, championing British-made products and sustainable growth.

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Bitcoin has endured its worst week since the implosion of the FTX exchange in 2022, with the world's most heavily traded cryptocurrency rattled by a leading bitcoin treasury company's decision to trim its holdings.

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Opinion

Ministers have set the UK on course to bar under-16s from mainstream social media, but the business and technology figures who will have to live with the policy are far from convinced it will work.

Under-16s social media ban branded ‘impractical, illiberal and undesirable’ as industry rounds on government

Scott Pelley fired from 60 Minutes: the next domino in the fall of American journalism

Rural Britain isn’t a backdrop. It’s a £315 billion economy, and it deserves a national stage

Technology

Canada's Cohere is tripling its physical footprint in the UK, signing a lease on a new London office as it races to position itself as the credible alternative to American rivals OpenAI and Anthropic for governments and regulated businesses nervous about handing their data to Silicon Valley.

Cohere triples its London base to cash in on Britain’s sovereign AI bet

Sir Keir Starmer has condemned Donald Trump’s threat to impose sweeping tariffs on the UK and other European allies over Greenland, calling the move “completely wrong” and warning it undermines Nato unity.

Cut off from the world’s most powerful AI, Britain leans on Trump for a way back in

There is no escaping the noise around artificial intelligence. Yet behind the breathless launches and boardroom enthusiasm sits a far more sober question, and it is one MPs are now determined to answer: are British businesses, and the workers inside them, actually getting anything out of it?

Beyond the hype: what do British businesses really make of AI?

Business

As HMRC’s phone lines come under scrutiny for lengthy queues and abrupt disconnections, contact centre expert Ben Booth shares five ways businesses can reduce wait times and improve customer satisfaction.

The Hidden Costs of Being Unprepared for a Business Crisis

No business owner likes to think about worst-case scenarios. When you’re focused on growth, customer satisfaction, and day-to-day operations, it can be tempting to assume that serious disruptions are unlikely to happen.

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