Economic Overview for April 2025
In an unwelcome verification of the Chancellor’s repeated reminders that we are living in a ‘changing world’, within hours of her Spring Statement her fiscal goal posts were
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How will US tariffs hit the UK?
How will America’s ‘Liberation Day’ hit UK businesses? After weeks of increasingly fevered speculation, we finally know how the main thrust of the pivot towards protectionism in the
How will the Spring Statement affect UK business?
Major fiscal events are always a game of winners and losers. This Spring Statement was no different, though given the weak state of the UK economy and global
Challenges persist for UK Road Haulage sector
Our report into the UK Road Haulage sector finances published last month described a shrinking industry with a deteriorating financial risk profile as well as a wide range
Budget cost increases and business insolvency
Some Budget measures are introduced with instant effect, usually to assuage public opinion about some perceived fiscal injustice. Others have a much longer fuse, stretching years into the
Economic Overview for March 2025
The mood for the UK economy may be somewhat less than positive as it lurches sluggishly just above and below the zero-growth line, but our parochial worries pale