UK bosses will be able to fire new recruits after a warning of poor performance during a nine-month probation period, in a last-minute concession to business that will soften the impact of Labour’s ...

Rachel Reeves has been warned not to sharply ramp up government borrowing in a push for more public investment, as the chancellor considers a loosening of the fiscal rules in the October 30 Budget.

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The UK law was “ strikingly Marxist ”, said Professor Alex Tabarrok at George Mason University. He and others objected to the ...

I usually duck books about illness — read too many, and you risk an irreversible case of Reader’s Hypochondria — but found ...

Settlement payments by London’s Metropolitan Police more than doubled in the past year to £7.6mn, as Britain’s biggest force ...

Justice department could seek ‘structural remedies’ such as forced product sales after judge’s ruling of illegal monopoly in ...

On September 26, in a bicameral US congressional effort, a letter signed by more than 60 Republican members of Congress urged ...

After the financial crisis, dealmaking among banks in different countries in Europe fell to a standstill. But recently, Italian lender UniCredit revealed that it had built up a stake in Germany’s ...

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