UK TRADE AND BUISNESS

UK food price rises soared to a record rate in December, figures show, as retail industry bosses warned that high inflation would continue in 2023 amid the fallout from surging energy bills.  Annual food inflation jumped to 13.3% in December, up from 12.4% in November, according to the latest monthly report from trade body the […]

More shops closed their doors for good in 2022 than at any other point for at least five years, taking about 150,000 jobs with them. Sky reported Close to 50 shops shut down every day in 2022, more than at any other point for at least five years. In a bruising year for retail, 17,145 shops […]

Road control room staff and traffic officers with the PCS union plan 12 days of action. Here is everything you need to know.  According to The Guardia’s report Strikes by control room staff and traffic officers could herald major delays on England’s motorways and A-roads to a “standstill”, with long traffic jams as millions of […]

Extra checks and requirements on goods crossing the border has increased food prices by 6% overall, says the Centre for Economic Performance. Sky News reports Brexit added £210 to household food bills across the 24 months to the end of 2021, new research suggests. Analysts from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London […]

New Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s time in the sector was relatively short, but it nonetheless makes for a CV quite unlike almost every other resident of 10 Downing Street.  Sky news said. Rishi Sunak is not just our first British Asian prime minister, our first Hindu PM. He is not just the youngest prime minister of […]