Downing Street has hit back at a former senior civil servant who criticised the Government’s approach to the Brexit negotiations. 

The Department for International Trade has branded a number of claims made by a government adviser “completely false”.

The Investment Association is the trade body that represents UK investment managers, who collectively manage over £5.7 trillion on behalf of clients.

Downing St has played down suggestions the UK is prepared to pay £36bn to settle its so-called 'divorce bill' from Brussels.

The UK has been "absent" from the opening round of Brexit talks because the Government has "no clear position" on negotiations, according to the former top civil servant at the Foreign Office.

Earlier this summer, consultants Jackie Wells & Associates were commissioned to publish the report, Later Life Borrowing, New Mindsets: Old Silos - The Advice Framework for Older Mortgage Customers.

Theresa May is willing to hand over £36bn in a Brexit divorce deal provided the EU kick-starts talks about a future trade relationship, a new report has said.

Anti-EU hardliners could become “Brexit jihadis” if they are denied their vision of Britain outside the bloc, Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable has warned.

A failure to invest in unskilled workers in the UK was at the root of the 2008 financial crash, according to the then governor of the Bank of England.

EU migrants under 30 could be given special two-year work visas if they want the right to live and work in the UK, under plans being considered in a Government-commissioned review.

The Government acted unlawfully by refusing people the right to appeal against decisions to deny them benefits, three judges have found.

Construction market demand for mineral products was lower in 2017Q2 compared with the previous quarter, providing evidence of a more general slowdown in construction activity in recent months.

Environment Minister Thérèse Coffey has visited Europe’s largest plastic bottle recycling facility to see how Coca-Cola plans to double the amount of recycled PET (polyethylene terephthalate) used in all its bottles by 2020. 

Ireland's prime minister has hit out at Britain’s hard Brexiteers for failing to offer ideas on a future border between the UK and Ireland despite having had ‘ample time’.

The Building Societies Association (BSA); the Tax Incentivised Savings Association (TISA) and UK Finance (UKF) committed that for 2017, a minimum of 80% of cash ISA transfers would be completed within seven working days.

Nicky Morgan has called on HMRC to address long-running problems with its website that have left some parents unable to register for free childcare provision.

The travel chaos on the continent could be "subterfuge" from member states trying to give Britain a "warning" after the Brexit vote, a minister has reportedly said.

Michael Gove has confirmed that some European fishing fleets will continue to have access to British waters after Brexit.

A former Labour frontbencher has given his backing to a poll on reuniting Ireland, calling it a "realisable and sensible option".

The Bank of England has downgraded its growth forecast for this year and 2018 and warned of business concerns over Brexit.

Jean Claude Juncker has downplayed the possibility of Brexit not going ahead, despite other European leaders expressing hopes that the UK will remain in the EU after all. 

Construction unions (GMB and Unite) have warned that further protests are likely in a dispute over companies failing to pay industry rates and employ local workers on the £175 million energy from waste project in Port Clarence, Teeside.

The shock result from the general election will have a “game-changing” result on Brexit, the outgoing French Ambassador to the UK has said.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers' Union has commented on the Education Policy Institute's Closing the Gap report into the progress made by the Government to narrow the pupil attainment gap.