UK business & economy

• UK taxpayers face billions in losses from Covid loan schemes 26th November 2021
  Almost £5bn of fraud estimated in relation to state-backed bounceback programme
• Bank of England chief economist backs case for raising interest rates 26th November 2021
  Huw Pill says conditions now exist for the central bank to tighten monetary policy
• Two energy suppliers offered rival plans to Bulb’s government bailout 26th November 2021
  Ofgem insists that private sector solution was ‘not feasible’
• This Black Friday, spare a thought for the soulless bargain hunters 26th November 2021
  “Hysterical monsters”, the lot of ‘em.
• Boris Johnson’s bridge to Northern Ireland ‘impossible to justify’ 26th November 2021
  Link to strengthen ties within the union would cost £330bn and take 30 years to build, report finds
• Surge in stamp duty refunds on second-home surcharge 26th November 2021
  Property stock levels decline during the pandemic, say agents
• Making sense of the Great Resignation 26th November 2021
  Labour markets have been reshaped by the pandemic in different ways
• How Labour’s Starmer and Reeves are ‘wooing’ business chiefs 26th November 2021
  After Boris Johnson failed to impress the CBI, the UK’s opposition party is trying to emulate the success of ex-leader Tony Blair
• UK’s Kickstart jobs scheme underdelivers, says audit office 26th November 2021
  Flagship programme aimed to avert a pandemic-related surge in young adult unemployment
• French fishermen to blockade ports in protest over UK fishing licences 25th November 2021
  Freight traffic to be disrupted at Channel Tunnel and other locations along French coast