Business and Economics

64 per cent of UK SMEs stated Brexit has negatively influenced the UK economy with two in five of the respondents saying their costs had increased.

Kwasi Kwarteng said the levy would be a "disincentive" to investment, but BP's own chief executive appeared to rubbish the claims.

The 27-nation bloc’s executive arm, the European Commission, has been investigating Apple since 2020.

"The only way to actually make a difference is to do the right, fair and principled thing and impose a one-off windfall tax on oil and gas producers’ profits to provide real help to families now and put in place a green energy sprint in the years ahead.”

He also suggested that Donald Trump could be allowed back on the platform by Musk.

“It appears the UK simply stopped selling a lot of products to smaller countries in the EU," researchers noted.

In March the currency's deprecating value triggered huge queues to withdraw money from ATMs across Russia.

"This an unnerving result for those expecting more consistent recovery in the sector but with the slowest growth in new orders this year, pipelines of work are beginning to look emptier and threaten to affect production in the months ahead.”

Robert Jenrick said he was disappointed with the decision, but Goodlife Foods said there was "no viable alternative".