Economy

When Andy Burnham walked into Downing Street on 20 July 2026 as Britain's 59th prime minister, one of his most closely watched choices was a person he decided not to move. Shabana Mahmood, 45, kept her post as home secretary, the department responsible for …

SummaryNewly qualified nurses across the UK are struggling to find NHS jobs even as wards remain short-staffed and vacancy lists run into the tens of thousands. Trusts under financial pressure have frozen or delayed recruitment, thinning out the entry-grade Band 5 posts that graduates …

SummaryAs Andy Burnham became UK prime minister on 20 July 2026, the Financial Times commentator Martin Wolf set out what he called the first rule of government: there is no free fiscal lunch, only hard choices. The idea is that all public spending must …

SummaryPrime Minister Andy Burnham, who took office on 20 July 2026, is maintaining Labour's ban on new licences for oil and gas exploration in the North Sea, continuing a policy advanced by Ed Miliband, now Foreign Secretary. The ban applies to new exploration only; …

In his first speech as UK prime minister on 20 July 2026, Andy Burnham promised cheaper essentials, less regional inequality and a government for every part of the country, calling the change the most significant political moment in 40 years. Each pledge implies large …

For decades, the business model of the City law firm has rested on a deceptively simple proposition: the more time a matter takes, the more a client pays. Now that proposition is being tested as never before. Generative artificial intelligence can draft a first-cut …

Airtel Africa, the London- and Lagos-listed telecoms operator that reaches across 14 African countries, is once again weighing a stock market listing for its mobile-money arm, Airtel Money, according to reporting by the Financial Times and other outlets. The renewed consideration lands at a …