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.

Boris Johnson’s claim that ministers are not preparing a contingency plan for Britain dropping out of the EU without a Brexit deal has been rejected by a fellow minister.

Commenting on the latest IHS Markit/CIPS UK Construction PMI data published this morning, Sarah McMonagle, Director of External Affairs at the Federation of Master Builders (FMB), said: 

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.