Increase comes despite Big Four accounting firm facing decline in revenue growth and ‘challenging market’

Operations will continue while application for holding company of former FTSE 100 group proceeds

Resolution Foundation calls on Rachel Reeves to level up treatment of freelancers and employees in Budget

Keir Starmer’s government should seize the chance to make radical reforms

Much of their time is spent appeasing and aligning competing forces

Move allows employees to use bank’s large language model to generate reviews from their own prompts

Greens-Labour and Christian Democrats vow to form coalition without Geert Wilders’ party after elections on Wednesday

Trump’s ‘favourite field marshal’ is confidently wooing global powers, but Asim Munir faces far tougher challenges closer to home

Japan’s Nikkei index breaches 50,000 as Donald Trump heads for Tokyo to meet Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi

Country’s dollar-denominated bonds surge after president wins endorsement for free-market reforms

Leadership failures at UK government department criticised by cross-party Commons committee

Agreement comes as insurer seeks to ward off competition in lucrative transfer market for pension risk

Rachel Reeves’ Riyadh trip comes as she seeks to persuade fiscal watchdog to factor such deals into Budget forecasts

Sarah Pochin’s comments on race in advertising elicit concerted response by politicians in effort to dent populist party’s appeal

America’s 40th and 47th presidents both employed protectionist measures but in vastly different ways

Deal for specialist in rare diseases is biggest acquisition under chief executive Vas Narasimhan

High-level talks yield progress ahead of summit between Trump and Xi

Governments should build on, not rip up, what went before — the new skills strategy does just that

Sam Altman tapped handful of in-house dealmakers over external advisers and lawyers to design huge web of infrastructure agreements

Tata Consultancy Services exonerated itself from being the source of the breach after an internal investigation

Former prime minister joins Jeremy Hunt in pressing chancellor to break free of debt ‘doom loop’

Trump’s vast refurbishment ignores questions of style and scale

One of the alleged burglars was trying to leave the country from Charles de Gaulle airport

Force says Hadush Kebatu was detained on Sunday in Finsbury Park area of north London