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Cabinet Meeting

UK must ’embrace new technologies’ to grow economy, Chancellor says

Passengers at Heathrow

Heathrow passenger numbers at 79% of pre-coronavirus levels

The UK economy contracted for the second month in a row in April in the first back-to-back fall since the pandemic struck in 2020 as the cost of living crisis and end of the Government's test and trace programme took its toll (Danny Lawson/PA)

UK economy suffers first back-to-back fall in April since start of pandemic

Baby plays with toy

Huge increase in cost of childcare over past decade – TUC

A post office

Record £3.23bn in cash handled by post offices in May

Sturgeon becomes Scotland’s longest-serving First Minister

Nicola Sturgeon urges businesses to change ways to improve economy

Coronavirus – Fri Nov 20, 2020

Almost 650,000 UK retail jobs lost since 2017

Aerial views of the London skyline

London Tech Week opens to record-breaking investment in UK tech sector

Petrol station

Probe into petrol station operators ordered amid concern over prices

Women on boards

Half of firms outside FTSE 350 have no female top bosses

Interest rates

Bank of England expected to hike interest rates to new 13-year high

A man using a laptop

Majority who started side ventures during pandemic ‘still keeping them up’

Grant Shapps

Agency workers could fill in for striking staff under potential legal changes

A piggy bank being smashed

One in 20 employees ‘could not cover bills for a week if they lost their income’

Empty Tube train

Working from home did little to alleviate regional disparities, report finds

London Stock

Hot US inflation heightens FTSE’s woes amid global sell-off

Consumer Prices

US inflation hit a new 40-year high last month of 8.6%

A Tesco store in Lockerbie, Scotland, as the supermarket giant prepares to update investors (Andrew Milligan/PA)

Tesco to reveal latest customer spending amid inflation pressure