Day: April 15, 2025
Wages rise 5.9% in three months to February, while unemployment unchanged at 4.4%
The number of workers on UK company payrolls has fallen at the fastest pace since the height of the Covid pandemic amid mounting global uncertainty and warnings that Rachel Reeves’s budget measures could lead to job losses.
Figures from the Office for National Statistics show the number of people employed in at least one job paid through pay as you earn fell by 78,000 in March after a revised fall of 8,000 in February.
Vice-president says Donald Trump ‘loves’ the UK and there is good chance of reaching mutually beneficial agreement
The US is optimistic it can negotiate a “great” trade deal with the UK, JD Vance has said.
Donald Trump imposed sweeping tariffs on imports to the US several weeks ago, sending the global economy into turmoil as stock prices tumbled and fears of a global recession mounted.