UK catalogue retailer Argos faces three weeks of strikes across its distribution network in a dispute over the failure of the company to negotiate a national agreement covering redundancy and severance packages.

More than a million women are £32 a week worse off with many pushed into income poverty under the latest rise in the state pension age, an independent thinktank has said.

Treasury select committee chair Nicky Morgan has called on the Bank of England to provide details of how prepared banks and insurance firms are for Brexit.

William Hague has given his backing to Philip Hammond's proposals for a transitional Brexit deal, claiming it is the best way to stop Brexit becoming a "disaster" for the UK. 

Disagreements over free movement have re-ignited quarrels between Cabinet ministers, says Dods political consultant, Sabine Tyldesley.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has said the chances of Britain agreeing a deal on Brexit in less than two years are “infinitesimally small”.

Downing St has made clear that free movement of EU citizens to the UK will come to an end in March 2019.

Some 20 public bodies are set to spring up across the country as the civil service takes on new work as a result of Brexit, a minister has revealed.

Continued staff shortages, overstretched and stressed out workers and overcrowded hospitals will undoubtedly see people die unnecessarily.

Boris Johnson has accused Vince Cable of “peddling lies” after the Liberal Democrat leader claimed the Foreign Secretary might be on the verge of resignation.

Cabinet ministers were again at loggerheads last night with reports of fresh splits over the UK's post-Brexit migration system.

Philip Hammond has made clear the Government does not plan to undercut European rivals with swingeing tax cuts after Brexit.

Almost a quarter of small building firms are having to pass the costs of soaring material prices onto consumers in the wake of the EU referendum.

The prime minister of Luxembourg has said the UK must pay what it owes in the Brexit divorce bill.

Philip Hammond is reportedly looking at raising taxes in a number of key areas in a bid to close a £1bn gap in the public finances.

Liam Fox has sparked a fresh Cabinet split after he rejected Philip Hammond’s claim that ministers had agreed on the UK having a transitional deal with the EU.

The Government has been forced to step in to ensure thousands of small business get the business rate relief payments they are due.

The prime minister of Malta has said he believes “Brexit will not happen”, as he called for Britain to hold a referendum over the terms of its leaving the EU.

The Labour party could stop Brexit by pledging to hold a second EU referendum, London mayor Sadiq Khan has said. 

 

The next general election could effectively become a second EU referendum if Philip Hammond gets his way over a transition deal lasting up to three years, MPs have warned.

As part of its wider Global Employment Standards strategy, IKEA UK has introduced one weekend off in four to its retail co-workers

The police’s investigation into possible corporate manslaughter charges relating to the Grenfell Tower tragedy, when an estimated 80 people died in the fire, was welcomed by Unite, the country’s largest union, today (Friday 28 July).

The Government must apologise to the thousands of employees "deliberately blocked" from access to justice by unlawful employment tribunal fees, the Shadow Justice Secretary has said.

Pensioners have seen a sustained rise in incomes since the financial crisis, while working households’ living standards have stagnated, according to new figures published this morning.