UK adults spent over half an hour longer online every day in 2025 than they did during the pandemic, according to an annual survey of internet habits by the regulator Ofcom. The Online Nation report ...

Shoppers in the UK pared back spending last month as higher household bills and poor weather drove them away from high streets. Card spending in May grew at the slowest pace in more than three years, ...

LONDON, March 10 (Reuters) - British consumer spending grew slowly in February as households grew more pessimistic about the ...

Leading economists have questioned how the UK government's Spending Review can determine exactly 10 percent cuts to admin budgets — partly powered by AI and digital transformation — across central ...

UK households increased their spending in March as consumer demand defied an imminent rise in household bills, according to reports from the British Retail Consortium and Barclays. BRC chief executive ...

U.K. Finance Minister Rachel Reeves on Wednesday announced the government would inject billions of pounds into defense, healthcare, infrastructure, and other areas of the economy. Funding public ...

After almost eight months of delay, Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government was forced this week to set a target date for increasing Britain’s military spending to 2.5 percent of GDP. Starmer’s ...

UK consumer spending on video games reached £7.6 billion ($10.1bn) in 2024, more than double the £3.5bn ($4.6bn) spent in 2013. That's according to Ukie's 2025 Consumer Market Valuation report which ...

(Bloomberg) -- Rishi Sunak pledged to increase defense spending to 2.5% of GDP by end of the decade, as the prime minister seeks to ease concerns at home and abroad about the level of investment in ...