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Jacob Rees-Mogg

Jacob Rees-Mogg: Brexiteer investment firm boss becomes Business Secretary

Kwasi Kwarteng

Kwasi Kwarteng: Long-term Liz Truss ally to hold nation’s purse strings

Energy costs

What support is expected on energy bills?

Conservative leadership bid

European markets edge higher as UK awaits energy bill support package

A family enjoying a hot tub

Hot tubs ‘running dry as households squeezed by rising living costs’

An outflow pipe at Seafield beach in Scotland

Nationalise water companies to help reduce sewage pollution, ministers told

Halfords fined £30k for sending 500,000 unwanted marketing emails

Halfords hit with fine for sending 500,000 unwanted marketing emails

Takeovers and mergers slowed in June as UK firms fielded economic turmoil

Takeovers and mergers slowed in June as UK firms fielded economic turmoil

Birmingham HS2 Interchange station

New HS2 station will bring 1,000 jobs and apprenticeships

Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie Johnson

Johnson resigns as prime minister at Balmoral as Truss prepares for office

Energy costs

‘Households will get poorer’ even if energy bills frozen, economists warn MPs

A man looking stressed

Fewer than a fifth of people ‘would speak to their bank about money struggles’

Boris Johnson

Johnson in Balmoral to resign as Prime Minister

Housing construction

Construction work slows for another month as firms hit by climbing costs

A TransPennine Express train

Train operator involved in industrial dispute slashes timetables

Holiday getaway

Vertu registers profit increase but warns of rising electricity bill

National Lottery

National Lottery handover to Allwyn set to go ahead after Camelot drops appeal

A bus

Transport company Go-Ahead suffers cyber attack