Campaigners for a second Brexit referendum have urged rival candidates to step aside in a bid to maximise the number of pro-EU MPs elected on 12 December.

British Safety Council sets out its asks of the next government: maintain standards, protect workers and resource the regulator.

The next Labour government will aim to close the gender pay gap by 2030, the party has announced.

Top construction industry leaders have called on Government to act immediately to address how the sector – which is the largest contributor to UK carbon emissions – can help the UK to meet its 2050 Zero Carbon target.

IPSE (the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed) has responded to new research by Robert Half UK, warning that it shows the extent of business anxiety about the changes to IR35 due in April 2020.

A Boris Johnson majority government will lead to a no-deal Brexit and devastate large parts of the UK economy, a former Tory Cabinet minister has warned.

A furious row has erupted in the Liberal Democrats after the party's candidate in a key marginal seat announced he was stepping aside to boost Labour's chances of winning it.

Boris Johnson will promise to end the UK's Brexit "groundhoggery" and accuse those pushing for a second referendum of "political self-obsession and onanism".

The British Safety Council is alarmed to learn about the findings of a joint investigation by Unearthed and the Financial Times which revealed that the government is failing to meet legally binding EU environmental targets for cutting carbon emissions.

UK employment has suffered its biggest quarterly fall in four years ahead of the general election, according to new figures.

On Monday 11 November 2019 the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released the latest data on GDP for July to September 2019 suggesting that the UK economy avoided a recession.

Take anything Nigel Farage tells you with a mountain of salt.

NFB Major Contractors Group calls on Government to act immediately to address how construction – the largest contributor to UK carbon emissions – can help the UK to meet 2050 Zero Carbon target. 

The UK has avoided a recession after the economy grew by 0.3% in 2019’s third quarter, new figures show.

A National Retrofit Strategy is needed to boost the domestic repair and maintenance sector in construction, according to the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) in response to the construction ONS data published today which shows a 3% decline in private housing repair and maintenance.

IPSE (the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed) has launched #5millionvotes, a manifesto for the 2019 General Election.

A majority of Britons would not mind if Northern Ireland left the UK so long as they got their preferred Brexit outcome, a new poll has found.

An election will not offer a conclusive answer to the Brexit question and there is a very real possibility that the UK will be left with another hung Parliament in which there is no clear mandate, no majority, and no consensus on the way forward, says Dods Monitoring's Laura Hutchinson. 

Chancellor Sajid Javid has defended the Conservatives' election claim that a Labour government would usher in more than one trillion pounds'-worth of extra public spending over the next five years.

The National Federation of Builders (NFB) has welcomed the Labour party’s ‘Warm Homes for All’ plan.

NFB has reacted to the Government's recent announcement of the successful contractors to win places on the £30bn framework for public sector constructio

FMB's Programme for Government provides a blueprint of policies for whoever wins the General Election to support this key sector of the economy.    

The transformation of IKEA will bring a greater focus on affordability, convenience and being people and planet positive to create a new IKEA by 2021, says Peter Jelkeby, Country Retail Manager and Chief Sustainability Officer, IKEA UK and Ireland.

A Labour goverment would give workers the opportunity to choose the working hours that best suit them, the party has announced.