News
The news section on Small Business UK allows you to keep up to date with the latest news, economic trends and regulatory developments affecting new and established UK small businesses.
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CBI calls for Cobra-style emergency committee for economy
Recession ‘a very live concern’ as CBI outlines 7 interventions to boost growth before autumn budget
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Nearly 80% of SMEs see cost-of-living crisis as biggest threat
A quarter of Britain’s small businesses ignore their business finances for fear of discovering how bad things really are
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Nearly 500,000 small firms ‘at risk of going bust’
Federation of Small Businesses calls on Rishi Sunak for more support to deal with ‘ticking timebomb’
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Euan Blair firm to train 5,000 SME apprentices free
Multiverse, founded by Euan Blair (son of ex-Prime Minister Tony), aims to train over 5,000 apprentices in SMEs – here’s how to get involved
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7 business tips from Made in Chelsea star Jamie Laing
Jamie Laing, former Made in Chelsea star and co-founder of Candy Kittens, shares seven tips that he’s learned from his time in business
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SMEs will be run by avatars in time for 2050 – study
A futurology report predicts that SMEs will be run by lookalike avatars of their business owners by 2050 – here’s what they’ll be able to do
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Sunak pledges to cut business tax in Autumn Budget
Rishi Sunak vowed to cut business taxes to encourage higher productivity and living standards in his speech at this year’s CBI Annual Dinner
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Lending to small businesses hits all-time low
New findings from the FSB show successful finance applications plummeting to lowest level on record
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MP calls for banking dispute service to be scrapped
Business Banking Resolution Service (BBRS) has only effected six awards since launch, despite being established to handle anything up to a thousand SME disputes
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Businesses call for immediate emergency Budget
British Chambers of Commerce call on chancellor Rishi Sunak to reverse National Insurance rise, slash VAT on energy bills to 5% and reinstate free Covid testing for businesses