Sir Keir Starmer is to chair a COBRA meeting today, Sky News understands.

A US jury has found Elon Musk misled investors by deliberately driving down Twitter's share price in the months leading up to his $44bn (£33bn) takeover of the social media company.

Average annual energy bills will rise by £332 in July, more than double the previously anticipated increase, due to high oil and gas prices driven by the war in Iran, trusted forecasters predicted.

British households have been told to brace for a surge in inflation and multiple interest rate hikes this year after surging oil and gas prices sparked by Donald Trump's war on Iran.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have said "the floodgates are open" for more legal cases against tech giants after Google and Meta were found liable for a woman's social media addiction in a landmark lawsuit.

The cost of a standard adult passport will rise to more than £100 for the first time next month.

Sharp rises in the price of oil and gas as a result of the war in Iran have set off an economic chain reaction which is already hitting people in the pocket.

Almost 200,000 students who were at university during the COVID-19 pandemic are seeking financial compensation.

UK unemployment has remained at its highest rate in five years, new official figures show.

There is a small fraction of the population for whom the release of the government's new Steel Strategy represents an extraordinarily fascinating, not to mention important, moment. The chances are you are not one of those people.

The US central bank has raised its forecast for inflation as the Iran war-linked surge in global energy prices threatens self-inflicted damage on the world's largest economy.

A raft of changes affecting the money in your pocket are coming into force this month.

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Sanctioned former Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich has been put on notice that legal action is coming from the UK government after failing "to do the right thing" and release the £2.5bn from the club's sale to help Ukraine.

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Naval escorts will not guarantee safe passage for oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz and could even present a target for Iran as it attempts to leverage control of the vital shipping lane, the head of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has warned.

It is easy to forget that not all that long ago, Britain was one of the world's biggest oil producers.

Older and vulnerable people are being targeted by "cruel" friendship fraudsters online, one of the UK's biggest banks has warned.

Changes to the student loans system quietly announced in the last budget have provoked a loud and angry response that has woken up Westminster to what anyone who did a degree in the 2010s, and their parents, already knew.

More than one million properties are due to get government-funded internet upgrades, and a new tool has been launched to tell you if you can get one.