Autumn Budget: R&D and AI push faces delivery questions November 26, 2025 Rachel Reeves’ Autumn Budget set out one of the largest public investments in UK research and innovation in decades, with billions earmarked for R&D, AI, and the industrial strategy. UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) will receive £38.6bn, including £9bn for government priority sectors such as AI, quantum computing, and engineering biology. Meanwhile, £7bn is set [...]
Autumn Budget: Reeves pledges local NHS care and £300m tech boost November 26, 2025 Rachel Reeves today unveiled a major NHS shake-up in her Autumn Budget, promising faster, local treatment and a tech-driven productivity boost. “We will renew our national health service”, Reeves claimed, highlighting a dual approach aimed at cutting waiting times while modernising frontline services. At the centre of the plan are 250 new Neighbourhood Health Centres, [...]
Autumn Budget: Will the UK keep its tech talent or drive it abroad? November 25, 2025 Time is running out for Rachel Reeves to reassure the sector she has spent months courting. With tax rises looking increasingly likely in Wednesday’s Autumn Budget, the mood across UK tech has shifted to concern, reviving the warning issued earlier this month by some of Britain’s most valuable founders: change course, or risk watching high-growth [...]
Reeves urged to back AI in Autumn Budget to drive growth November 25, 2025 Chancellor Rachel Reeves is under pressure to deliver a decisive push for AI in tomorrow’s highly anticipated Autumn Budget, with industry leaders calling for billions in investment, thousands of jobs, and a clear roadmap for UK growth. The government has already attracted more than £78bn of private investment in AI, with a further £24.25bn committed [...]
Would the new Cyber Bill have prevented 2025’s retail chaos? November 25, 2025 The 2025 UK cyber bloodbath, which saw JLR down for five weeks, M&S nursing a £300m hole, Co-op, Harrods, and more, all happened after the government had already spent four years consulting on cyber legislation. And when the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill finally slouched into the House of Commons on 12 November, the reaction [...]
Security minister vows stricter cyber regime after JLR fallout November 24, 2025 Security minister Dan Jarvis has pledged a more hard-edged cyber regime for UK businesses after a series of high-profile attacks on firms including Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Marks & Spencer exposed weaknesses in the country’s digital defences. Speaking at the Parliament & Cyber Conference at Westminster on Monday, Jarvis said cyber incidents had moved [...]
Lime squeezes London riders with quiet price hike November 24, 2025 Lime has quietly raised the cost of its London e-bike rentals, City AM understands, increasing its per-minute rate from 29p to 31p, a seven per cent jump, without notifying customers. The price of its 30-minute ride bundle has also risen sharply from £3.99 to £4.49, an increase of just over 12 per cent. For regular [...]
China threat policy questioned amid urgent MI5 warnings November 24, 2025 Despite MI5 sounding its most urgent alarm over Chinese intelligence activity in Westminster yet, the UK government has refused to label China a national security threat. According to new MI5 analysis circulated to MPs last week, Chinese state-linked operatives are running “relentless” influence and information-gathering operations across Whitehall, using LinkedIn to target parliamentary researchers, advisers, and [...]
Reeves faces £30bn tax hole ahead of Budget announcement November 23, 2025 Rachel Reeves is set to plug a looming £30bn hole in the public finances with a “dog’s breakfast” of tax hikes, according to new analysis. The Institute of Economic Affairs warns that the gap will likely be addressed by combining broad-based income tax rises with a patchwork of smaller, targeted measures. The gap, which has [...]
Daily Mail owner seals £500m deal for The Telegraph November 22, 2025 Daily Mail owner DMGT has struck a £500m deal to buy the Telegraph Media Group, drawing a line under one of the most drawn-out and politically fraught takeover battles in the British press. The publisher has entered an exclusive period of talks with RedBird IMI, the Abu Dhabi-linked fund whose own attempt to buy the [...]
