So much has happened in the UK and across the world over the last 12 months, and as the holiday season draws closer there is a great deal of uncertainty. The implications of Brexit are still far from clear as negotiations proceed. The Trump presidency is creating tensions across the world, there is political and social unrest in a number of regions and many others are threatened by terrorist attacks, conflict and natural disasters.

“If your time to you is worth saving, then you better start swimming or you’ll sink like a stone, for the times are a changing,” is a lyric by Bob Dylan and a pretty good summary of a tumultuous year. A year that has seen attention-grabbing events come and go with breath taking speed; a pace of change that we are also seeing in the world of work – a point made by contributors to our Future Risk video. And the response to this change, the lyric alludes, must be to keep paddling; particularly true as we are in the business of keeping people healthy and safe.

Labour has blasted another round of “staggering” rail fare hikes as it claimed season tickets have rocketed by almost £700 since the Conservatives came to power.

Anti-Brexit campaign Open Britain was left devastated last night after it emerged its head of press died with his family in a tragic Sydney plane crash.

Allies of David Davis fear the Brexit Secretary is being marginalised and could be further pushed into the shadows if Boris Johnson changes job, it has been reported.

Boris Johnson believes he is being hung out to dry by fellow Cabinet eurosceptics over his calls for Theresa May to pursue a hard Brexit.

Lord Adonis has called for Transport Secretary Chris Grayling to quit as he stepped up his attacks on the Government approach to Brexit.

Millennials in the UK are set to receive an “inheritance boom” a report by the Resolution Foundation says, but this will come too late to address generational inequality in the UK.

Claims that David Davis is being sidelined in Brexit negotiations are untrue, a source from within his department has said. 

The fall in wages will be “bleaker” next year than it was in 2017 as the UK slumps to the bottom of a key global league table, unions have warned.

The SNP's Westminster leader has written to Jeremy Corbyn and other opposition leaders calling for a New Year summit to fight against a so-called 'hard Brexit'. 

2017 has been an exceptionally busy year for NOAH, with Brexit straddling every NOAH activity.

Theresa May has been urged to kick Lord Heseltine out of the Conservatives after he said a Jeremy Corbyn government would be better for Britain than leaving the EU.

One in four Labour voters could switch to another party at the next election amid confusion over its stance on Brexit, according to a new poll.

Labour MPs have urged Philip Hammond to publish Treasury analysis of how Brexit will impact on the UK economy. 

Tory grandee Michael Heseltine has said that a Jeremy Corbyn government would do “less damage” to the UK than Brexit. 

West Midlands Mayor, Andy Street, has said access to the single market and customs union post-Brexit is vital for UK businesses. 

Some 70 Labour councillors have piled pressure on Jeremy Corbyn to promise Brits a rethink on Brexit.

Britons should expect a “standstill year on pay” as wages look set to plateau over the next twelve months, according to new analysis.

Boris Johnson and Michael Gove have reportedly attacked a move by HMRC to tax Brexit-backing donors as “bad for democracy”.

The cost of the average family Christmas could rise by as much as £80 because of Brexit-related price rises, a leading pro-European group has claimed. 

HMRC has been accused of singling out wealthy donors who backed Brexit and donated to leave campaigns, a national newspaper has revealed.

A Tory minister has accused Labour frontbencher Angela Rayner of tweeting "made up numbers" in a row over the cost of new blue passports.

Brits should pay a deposit for using plastic bottles in a bid to protect the oceans, MPs have declared.