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GDP growth 3.9% in 2019-20, the unemployment rate of 5.0% in 2018 and 4.0% in 2020, the wage growth rate in 2019 of 5.1% - the Polish government's adopted yesterday 2017-20 financial plan.more

The housing market continues to defy fears of a post-referendum slump after sellers' asking prices hit a new record high of more than £313,000 on average in April. Across England and Wales, the average price tag on a property being put on the market increased by £3,547 - or 1.1% month-on-month - to reach £313,655.more

Great Britain has returned to the top countries in which companies want to do business - according to a report published by the consulting firm EY.more

Residential property prices posted their fastest annual growth in almost two years in February, lifted by sharp increases outside of Dublin. New figures from the Central Statistics Office show that residential property prices rose by 10.7% in the year to February - the fastest growth rate since May 2015. more

The position of London's financial district, as the most important global financial center in Europe, is undisguised, said Jeremy Browne, City of London's Financial District Representative for the European Union.more

Are you rich if you earn £70,000? According to the Labour MP John McDonnell, you are. And that contention made some people very angry. In an interview on the Today programme (from 1:15:30) on BBC Radio 4, McDonnell set out his vision of a "fair taxation system". He said Labour would be "looking to the corporations and to the rich to pay their share".more

A new report detailing the worrying state of Brits' personal finances has raised fears of a national debt crisis. Just under half of working-age Brits have less than £100 in savings, and more than 17 million people fail to pay off the monthly balance on their credit cards.more

Theresa May has said that the UK's commitment to spend 0.7 per cent of its gross national income (GNI) on foreign aid spending "will remain", amid concerted pressure from right-wing ministers and newspapers to cut the aid budget.more

The Mayor Sadiq Khan has pledged to help halt the decline in the number of pubs in London, as he released new figures that reveal the number of locals in the capital have fallen by a quarter since 20011. more

Fears are mounting over the future of free-to-use cash machines attached to shops after retailers lost a key court battle over business rates. A legal ruling published yesterday upheld a controversial decision in 2013 that cash machines built into the front of a shop or petrol station should have a separate business rates bill.more

Reducing the UK government's commitment to foreign aid spending would cost lives, American billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has warned.more

A converted storeroom behind a former Victorian poorhouse in Bethnal Green has gone on the market for £350,000 in the latest dramatic example of east London's rampant property boom. Stunned neighbours today likened the former caretaker's store, which has just 17 square metres of floor space, to "Harry Potter's bedroom".more

A fifth of British businesses have been hacked by cyber criminals in the last 12 months - with larger firms the most at risk.more

Londoners spend about three weeks more at work a year than the rest of the UK, according to new data. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show the average working week in London is 33 hours, the longest since the 2008 financial crisis.more

More than half of British people support increased immigration of highly skilled workers, suggests a new poll, which charts the UK's attitude towards migrants from diverse sectors of the economy and different areas of the globe.more

Brussels is contemplating another way to keep U.K. trade going with the EU after Brexit that would also keep Britain under the EU umbrella - go the way of Norway.more

A two-mile road tunnel beneath the River Thames has been announced by the Government. Transport Secretary Chris Grayling revealed on Wednesday morning the preferred option for a new route to ease congestion at the Dartford Crossing. more

EU migrants make up more than one in 10 manufacturing sector workers in the UK, official figures have shown. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) also said EU workers from outside the UK tended to work longer hours than the workforce average.more

Supermarkets are pulling out all the stops to sneak in price hikes caused by the pound's post-Brexit slump without consumers noticing. Data released this week shows food prices are rising and wages are stagnant, leaving consumers increasingly conscious of the cost of the weekly shop. more

The unionists from the French Whirlpool washing machines factory warn Polish workers to not trust the promises of the future employer.more

The first rail freight service from the UK to China has departed on its 17-day, 7,500-mile journey.more

Committee of MPs says the hard to comprehend contracts seem designed to stop workers asserting their rights - and one Uber driver tells The Independent the contract he signed was 'absolutely impenetrable and brutally exploitative'more

Cadbury is reportedly returning the production of all its Dairy Milk bars to the UK again after it moved some manufacturing to Poland.more

Foreign investors are buying up chunks of new housing developments across Britain, making it even harder for young people to purchase their first home, an investigation by The Times has found.more

Poland looks more vulnerable to a painful divorce between the UK and European Union than anywhere else.more