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Kemi Badenoch has told shadow ministers she wants a period of silence from Liz Truss, as the Conservative leader seeks to distance herself from her predecessor’s economic legacy.

Badenoch told the shadow cabinet last week that she wished Truss would stop intervening in British politics after the former prime minister …

High up in the Swiss Alps this week, an influential public relations executive issued a stark warning to the world’s corporate and political elite.

Public trust

For the 25th year, the PR agency Edelman …

Sainsbury’s is to cut 3,000 jobs in the UK through the closure of its hot food counters and cafes and by reducing senior management roles by a fifth, amid rising labour costs.

Simon Roberts, the chief executive of the supermarket group, said he was making the job cuts as part …

A mosh pit may seem out of place in Rockefeller Center, better known for its Christmas tree, rinks and hoards of tourists. But a British record store chain wants to change that.

Rough Trade is tripling the size of its site at the major shopping center this spring, expanding its …

Germany goes to the polls on 23 February for a snap federal election that, barring mishaps, will set the course of the EU’s largest and most influential member state, and the eurozone’s biggest – if faltering – economy, for the next four years.

Here is a guide to what is …

The EU’s new trade chief has said the bloc could consider including the UK in a pan-European trade agreement, but emphasised that “the ball is in the UK’s court”.

While the UK’s Labour government has ruled out returning to the single market and customs union after Brexit, the possibility of …

Sales at Primark have fallen for the first time since the pandemic forced all shops in the UK to close, as mild weather and low consumer confidence hit sales.

Associated British Foods (ABF), which owns the fashion retailer, said sales at Primark’s established stores fell 6% in the final three …

There was a lovely moment after the Trinidad Test a couple of years back. With the final day’s play between India and West Indies washed out and the match drawn, Ravindra Jadeja and Jomel Warrican went up to the top of the covered stand to chat spin bowling.

And, …

Australia’s most popular airline loyalty program is set for some major changes.

This week, Qantas announced it was broadly increasing the amount of frequent flyer points needed to redeem Classic Reward flights – a move that has already irked points collectors.

With Qantas effectively lowering the value of frequent flier …

The government’s statistics agency is spending £8m to hire an army of low-paid temporary workers amid efforts to fix its “virtually unusable” data on unemployment and wages in Britain.

Under pressure over the quality of its data, the

Office for National Statistics