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LIZ Truss's spokesman has suggested she could cut public spending after all despite the Prime Minister's "absolute" commitment during PMQs j...

THE pound fell again overnight after the Bank of England governor warned its emergency support package for the markets would end on Friday.

THE risk of a recession has risen after the UK’s economy shrank in August as factories and consumer services firms struggled, according to o...

A former Catalan MP has been jailed for four months after refusing to answer questions from a far-right party during a trial against indepen...

KWASI Kwarteng has once again defended his mini-budget after the International Monetary Fund criticised the UK Government’s tax-cutting plan...

PETER Swain of Dunbar (Letters, Oct 10) would like someone to explain to him the use of the GBP that Scotland intends to make.

MORE women are in work in Scotland than ever before, according to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics data.

THE Bank of England has said it will further bolster its emergency bond-buying plan as it warned the ongoing rout in the gilts market poses...

A NEW campaign has been launched to encourage Scots to talk to friends, family and other sources of support about money worries to raise awa...

THE cost-of-living crisis is hitting everyone and at The National, we feel it should not create a barrier for anyone to be able to access to...

David McKenzie, Secretary of Glasgow Kelvin Branch, has told us why the motion on Doestic Energy Savings is so important.

The Tory made crisis resulting from their mini-budget explodes the myth that they are safe custodians of the economy. More importantly, it e...

IT was Vladimir Nabokov who wittily warned against the lazy use of coincidence in literature.

LAST week, 44 world leaders landed in Prague for the inaugural meeting of the European Political Community (EPC), a new strategic platform l...

THERE was no need for Kwasi Kwarteng to add some tax cuts for the wealthy to the fiscal statement on September 23, given that it was suppose...

Chris Hanlon, Political Education Officer of SNP West Fife and Coastal Villages branch, tells us why the Rosyth-Zeebrugge Ferry Link resolut...

I HAVE written about the need for an independent Scotland to have its own currency for some time. I rather hope that the events of the last...

JOB adverts are falling while potential redundancies are rocketing, according to fresh UK Government statistics, sparking fears Liz Truss’s...

IN the much-missed TV show Minder, there was a character named “Self-inflicted Syd”. When Arthur Daley asked Tery McCann why he was so calle...

Researchers at the Fraser of Allander Institute (FAI) have revised down their forecasts for the coming months and have predicted the economy...

HOSPITALITY leaders have said businesses are in a “worse position than Covid” due to a lack of support amid soaring energy costs and inflati...

CALL me naive or just simply old-fashioned. The initial proclamations from Downing Street by messers (and that’s certainly a valid descripti...

HOSPITALITY leaders have said businesses are in a “worse position than Covid” due to a lack of support amid soaring energy costs and inflati...

THE Scottish National Investment Bank has said it has made “clear progress” in its inaugural year and is “well positioned” to deliver enviro...

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