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Conservatives are revelling in the government’s turmoil following a court ruling to close a migrant hotel in Essex – but their double standards on the issue will come back and bite them, says Andrew G ...
English homebuyers have seen their stamp duty payments jump over 20% to £8bn this year, according to Coventry Building Society’s analysis of the latest ...
Financial information website Moneyfacts said the average five-year fixed homeowner mortgage rate on Thursday was 4.99%.
The average rate on a five-year fixed mortgage has dropped below 5% for the first time since May 2023, as the cost of ...
Brokers remained “confident” about their business prospects and the wider intermediary sector during the second quarter despite weaker lending in the ...
Stamp duty receipts lifted 10.3% to £6.4bn between April and July compared to a year ago, the latest HMRC data shows.   These ...
There are plenty of candidates to succeed Sir Keir Starmer as the next UK prime minister in 2025 – but how many have a ...
The 30-year U.K. government bond offered a yield of 5.61% at press time. That's 68 basis points more than the 30-year U.S. Treasury yield according to data source TradingView.
The yield on long-dated inflation-linked UK government bonds surpassed the highs seen during the gilt-market meltdown three ...
Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te (center left) shakes hands with former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the Ketagalan ...
Matthew Holehouse, our British political correspondent, on the Conservatives’ changed view of Britain’s labour market ...
It took 20 months to hit the milestone under Rishi Sunak’s premiership compared with 13 months under Sir Keir Starmer.