Business and Finance

Giving a £170m taxpayer bailout to steel tycoon Sanjeev Gupta would have been "completely irresponsible", the business secretary has told MPs.

Tesco will this week move to strengthen the level of retail expertise in its boardroom by naming Thierry Garnier, the chief executive of B&Q's parent company, as a non-executive director.

Egypt has filed a multi-million pound compensation claim against the owner of the container ship that blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week.

Channel 4, the state-owned broadcaster, is to take a stake in Boomin, the new online property portal established by Purplebricks' founder, Michael Bruce.

A senior civil servant worked for Greensill Capital - the financial firm at the centre of the David Cameron lobbying row - while still employed in Whitehall, it has been revealed.

Exports to the EU partly rebounded in February after a record slump to start the year while the wider economy also returned to growth, official figures show.

Today's trade figures offer an important early sense of how Britain is settling into its new post-Brexit reality.

The Bank of England's chief economist will leave his role later this year for a new job at the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.

Engineering giant Babcock International is to cut 1,000 jobs - most of them in the UK - as part of a shake-up.

Boris Johnson has promised a top lawyer will be given "carte blanche to ask anybody whatever he needs" as part of a review into the activities of a collapsed finance firm David Cameron lobbied for.