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Last orders for British hospitality: Are Reeves and Starmer trying to kill the UK restaurant sector?

Last orders for British hospitality: Are Reeves and Sta...

From a £3.4 billion National Insurance hit to a refusal to cut hospitality VAT,...

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Are You Building a Future-Ready Small Business? Choose Tech That Is Less Visible, Not More Complicated

Are You Building a Future-Ready Small Business? Choose ...

You may have heard the joke: an older fish says to a younger fish, ‘The water’s...

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Britain braces for £35bn energy shock as Iran conflict pushes inflation back above 4%

Britain braces for £35bn energy shock as Iran conflict ...

Niesr warns the UK economy will lose £35bn over two years as the Iran conflict ...

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Barclay Brothers swerve bankruptcy with eleventh-hour creditor pact

Barclay Brothers swerve bankruptcy with eleventh-hour c...

Aidan and Howard Barclay escape bankruptcy as HSBC withdraws its High Court pet...

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John Lewis dragged into High Court over click-and-collect rent at Brent Cross

John Lewis dragged into High Court over click-and-colle...

John Lewis faces a High Court battle as Brent Cross landlords Hammerson and Sta...

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JP Morgan reverses Brexit-era Paris move as London beckons trading roles back

JP Morgan reverses Brexit-era Paris move as London beck...

JP Morgan is shifting trading roles from Paris back to London after over-estima...

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Tesla accelerates European comeback as EV sales surge past one-in-five milestone

Tesla accelerates European comeback as EV sales surge p...

Tesla sales jump 84% in Europe as electric vehicles now account for more than o...

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UK borrowing slips to four-year low but Middle East tensions threaten Reeves’s fiscal plan

UK borrowing slips to four-year low but Middle East ten...

UK government borrowing dropped to £12.6bn in March, a four-year low, as debt i...

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Employers hit with £28bn National Insurance Shock as rate rise bites harder than treasury forecast

Employers hit with £28bn National Insurance Shock as ra...

Employers' National Insurance Contributions have soared by £28bn in a single ye...

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L’Oréal banks on the ‘lipstick effect’ as anxious shoppers reach for affordable luxuries

L’Oréal banks on the ‘lipstick effect’ as anxious shopp...

The world's largest cosmetics group shrugs off the drag from the Iran war, post...

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UK employers saddled with sharpest tax rise in developed world, OECD finds

UK employers saddled with sharpest tax rise in develope...

Britain's tax wedge jumped 2.45 points in a year — 16 times the OECD average — ...

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Brady bows out: West Ham vice-chair ends 16-year tenure as boardroom pressure mounts

Brady bows out: West Ham vice-chair ends 16-year tenure...

Baroness Karren Brady has departed West Ham United after 16 years as vice-chair...

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Unemployment dip flatters to deceive as SME hiring freezes amid Iran shock

Unemployment dip flatters to deceive as SME hiring free...

UK unemployment unexpectedly drops to 4.9% in the quarter to February, but vaca...

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Bezos’s physical AI lab Prometheus nears $10bn raise at $38bn valuation

Bezos’s physical AI lab Prometheus nears $10bn raise at...

Jeff Bezos's physical AI venture Project Prometheus is closing in on a $10bn fu...

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Barclays and Lloyds join FCA’s second AI sandbox as banks race to prove their tech credentials

Barclays and Lloyds join FCA’s second AI sandbox as ban...

Barclays and Lloyds have joined the FCA's second AI live testing cohort alongsi...

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Reeves tightens windfall tax on renewables as ministers move to sever gas-electricity link

Reeves tightens windfall tax on renewables as ministers...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves lifts the electricity generator levy from 45% to 55% a...