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Tory leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch caused a backlash last weekend when she said maternity pay in the UK was "excessive" and called for greater "personal responsibility".
Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, is drawing up plans for a visit to China early next year that would include resuming a key financial services trade summit for the first time since 2019.
The founder of one of the City's most prominent independent law firms is threatening to call an extraordinary meeting of its shareholders unless its chief executive is sacked in the wake of a calamitous decline in its share price.
The Post Office was a "mess" run by executives and government appointees who "dragged their feet" in efforts to compensate and exonerate sub-postmasters, the former chairman has told the public inquiry.
Mulberry, the struggling UK luxury brand, has rejected a proposed takeover bid by Mike Ashley's Frasers Group.
Bosses at eBay have scrapped fees for private sellers across most categories.
Turbines at the UK's last coal-fired power station have turned for the last time - a milestone in Britain's transition to zero-carbon power and the end of Britain’s 142-year history of burning coal for electricity.
It's a momentous day in UK industrial history, in two respects. But what have the closures of the last blast furnace at Port Talbot and the final British coal-fired power station at Ratcliffe-on-Soar got to do with one other?
An arm of BlackRock, the world's biggest asset manager, is closing in on a takeover of a major contractor to Thames Water even as the utility teeters on the brink of collapse.
A lawyer representing people affected by a "second Post Office IT scandal" has said they "must not" have "a long, hard battle ahead for exoneration and compensation".