
Brexit blamed as Britain’s £74bn goods export slump deepens its reliance on services
Britain has lost £74bn in goods exports since Brexit, the sharpest drop in the G7, casting doubt over Andy Burnham's plan to reindustrialise the north.
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Britain has lost £74bn in goods exports since Brexit, the sharpest drop in the G7, casting doubt over Andy Burnham's plan to reindustrialise the north.

With Andy Burnham poised to enter No 10, the race for chancellor is wide open. From Wes Streeting to Ed Miliband, here is who could run…

Oracle has shed about 21,000 jobs in a year, blaming AI deployment across its operations, as restructuring costs jump to $1.8bn. What it means for tech…

StubHub has been fined nearly £900,000 and ordered to refund more than 50,000 fans after the CMA found it hid mandatory ticket fees through illegal drip…

Business chiefs urge stability and warn against fresh tax rises after Sir Keir Starmer's resignation leaves the UK facing its seventh prime minister in a decade.

GMB national secretary Charlotte Brumpton-Childs warns the Public Accounts Committee that the cost of not rescuing Scunthorpe steel, to the public purse and to communities, would…

Exclusive research finds more than 80% of 2,000 UK SME owners are fearful about what an Andy Burnham premiership would mean for their business after his…

Bank of England company data points to a 6% Brexit hit to UK GDP over a decade, with uncertainty and trade barriers each taking a share,…

Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary has extended his contract to 2032 in a bonus deal that could be worth more than £130m, tied to profit and share-price…

NatWest is putting all 60,000 staff through AI ethics training via a University of Edinburgh tie-up as chief executive Paul Thwaite pushes to lead UK banking's…

Michael Bloomberg backs London with more than £400m in new climate funding during London Climate Action Week, betting that the green transition will drive UK jobs…

UK unemployment fell to 4.9% in the three months to April as pay growth outpaced forecasts, handing the Bank of England fresh data hours before its…

Tim Cook says Apple price rises are "unavoidable" as AI-driven demand quadruples memory and storage chip costs. What the DRAM and NAND crunch means for buyers.

Jeff Bezos has backed Cambridge materials-discovery start-up CuspAI through Bezos Expeditions, in a $400m round that lifts its valuation to $2.6bn.

Manchester is the UK's leading city outside London to start a business, new research finds, as women founders back regional hubs over the capital.