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The IFS Green Budget says higher inflation could force John Healey to find about £25 billion by 2030–31 just to avoid real-terms cuts outside health and defence.
Producers warned that thin margins, El Niño-linked harvest losses and supermarket pricing power could leave Britain importing more staples as the Public Accounts Committee begins hearings on food resilience.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham blocked Health Secretary Yvette Cooper's bid for a pre-Budget NHS uplift, insisting Treasury lines must hold until the Office for Budget Responsibility signs off on growth assumptions.
The Bank of England governor warned markets could push gilt yields higher if investors doubt the UK’s fiscal path, three weeks before John Healey’s first Budget.
Offshore Energies UK warns deferred platform work is colliding with a steeper winter gas forward curve as Middle East supply risks keep sterling household contracts in focus.
Vega’s TR-1 filings show Xavier Niel’s vehicle above 9% of Vodafone voting rights while the £4.4 billion e& block trade awaits regulatory sign-off.
Wittington Investments will buy Boots from Sycamore Partners in an $8.9 billion deal covering UK and Ireland stores, opticians and No7 Beauty, with completion expected in early 2027.
Chancellor John Healey told chief executives the fiscal picture remains difficult after a Tuesday City roundtable, as analysts debate whether lifting the bank surcharge or easing Basel buffers would raise more cash.
Sainsbury's held preliminary merger talks with Morrisons between November and February before walking away, reviving CMA scrutiny fears in a market squeezed by Aldi and Lidl.
Unite says roughly 160 Apache North Sea workers have voted to strike over pay, warning that action at Forties and Beryl fields could choke the pipeline that carries nearly a third of Britain's oil.
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy invoked Enterprise Act powers as BT agreed to buy TalkTalk out of administration, putting telecoms continuity and competition review on a dual track.
JPMorgan put British Gas owner Centrica on its Analyst Focus List after arguing the market punished the shares too hard for this year's profit warnings.
Chancellor John Healey has called the heads of NatWest, Barclays and Lloyds to a Tuesday summit at No. 11 as cabinet colleagues push back on talk of a fresh bank levy before the 28 October Budget.
Energy UK says January gas forecasts and Middle East supply risk mean ministers must decide on targeted bill help before arrears harden into a longer crisis.
Motoring group RAC said the average UK diesel pump price crossed £2 per litre on Friday as Middle East shipping disruptions collided with a G7 pledge to release strategic reserves.
Britain's largest grocer lifted its adjusted operating profit band to £2.9 billion–£3.1 billion after a warmer first half and tighter food inflation than rivals feared.
Employers processing October payrolls must apply the new National Living Wage rate of £12.71 an hour from the first pay period starting on or after 1 October, as HMRC publishes updated tables for software providers and small-business advisers.
PayPoint investors approved Royal Mail’s 49% Collect+ stake and a 50p special dividend as Royal Mail Shop branding reaches thousands of convenience sites.
Chancellor John Healey used Labour’s Liverpool conference to lock in £6 billion of warship work and a £300 million Rolls-Royce factory package, even as he warned fiscal headroom has shrunk ahead of the 28 October budget.
Deputy Governor Dave Ramsden is due to explain the Bank of England's multi-year quantitative tightening plan at 11 a.m. as active gilt sales pause and markets parse how £46 billion of annual runoff will be split.
Andy Burnham pitched a Your First Home scheme with deposits as low as 2.5% on the eve of Labour's Liverpool conference, but John Healey will not publish full rules until the 28 October Budget.
An independent panel found Manchester City guilty on 114 of 115 financial charges, leaving penalties — points deduction, relegation and title stripping — to decide the club's next quarter.
GfK's September barometer improved to minus 13, but a five-point jump in savings intentions and a fall in the Major Purchase Index point to a cautious Golden Quarter.
Ten-year gilt yields near post-2008 highs and a record £8.8bn August debt-interest bill have cut the Chancellor's Budget headroom to roughly £14bn against £24bn forecast in March, with tax rises the likeliest offset when John Healey delivers his first Budget on 28 October.
Flash S&P Global/CIPS data put UK services at 51.7 in September, missing the 52.0 consensus as domestic demand softened and input costs climbed on fuel—one week after the Bank of England held Bank Rate at 3.75% with a hawkish inflation warning.
Rolls-Royce raised its 2026 large-engine shop-visit forecast after long-haul flying hours ran ahead of plan, betting Derby and Singapore MRO lines can absorb more Trent work without repeating last winter’s spare-engine crunch.
British Gas told brokers it will leave standard variable tariffs unchanged through the October Ofgem price-cap consultation, keeping roughly 2.4 million households on hold while Centrica waits for the regulator’s winter allowance figures.
United Utilities has stepped up controlled drawdown at Haweswater and Thirlmere after a dry September left Cumbria’s strategic stocks below the five-year average, even as Pennine zones stay on enhanced monitoring.