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World’s biggest four-day working week trial hailed a ‘major breakthrough’
The majority of companies who took part in the UK pilot scheme said they will keep a shorter working week following the pilot.
Tesco hands store workers third pay increase in 10 months
Usdaw, the union, credited the supermarket for responding positively to the significant pressures their staff face.
Britain’s biggest banks raking in £107m in profits EVERY DAY
Banks will follow oil giants in revealing their annual results this week, with Barclays kicking things off on Wednesday.
Brexit deals UK economy ‘productivity penalty’ of £29 billion – or £1k per household
An external member of the Bank's monetary policy committee said a wave of investment "stopped in its tracks" in 2016 following the vote.
Fact checked: Tory claim that UK recorded ‘fastest economic growth in G7’ in 2022
It's really not the brag they are making it out to be!
Hunt ‘disappointed’ after UK loses new £320m AstraZeneca factory to EU hub
“There are more stories about losing investmentthan the positive noise stories coming in, and we really have to turn that around.”
Brexit ‘costing UK economy £100bn a year’, Telegraph says
"Did the UK commit an act of economic self-harm when it voted to leave the EU in 2016? The evidence so far still suggests it did."
UK economy set to slam into reverse in 2023 as outlook improves for other G7 nations
Even the Russian economy is expected to grow in 2023, the IMF said, with a forecast expansion of 0.3 per cent in 2023.
BBC reporting ‘not politically biased’, but ‘strongly led by Westminster narrative’
An analysis of the corporation’s coverage found that a lack of impartiality could be caused by "uninformed groupthink".