Business news 20 October 2022 James Salmon, Operations Director. 600,000 firms in financial distress. Small business confidence sinks. Inflation rises to 10.1%. Record pay rises on the cards. Business rates bill set to jump £3bn. PM promises to keep pensions triple

Business news 19 October 2022 James Salmon, Operations Director. CPI hits 10.1%. Small firms see costs climb and revenues fall. Energy bills may exceed £4,000. Unions will fight to protect workers’ rights, says TUC. IMF welcomes the UK’s mini-Budget U-turn

Business news 18 October 2022 James Salmon, Operations Director. More U-turns. Energy bill support to be reviewed and reduced. Hunt praised but told not to rest on his laurels. No cuts without ‘detrimental’ hit to services, experts warn. Bosses torn

Business news 17 October 2022 James Salmon, Operations Director. Businesses are ‘sleepwalking into a train crash’. Company collapses climbing. Credit cost has hit a decade high. Reaction to new chancellor and tax u-turn. UK set for ‘more significant’ recession. Biden

Business news 13 October 2022 James Salmon, Operations Director. UK economy shrank in August as cost of living crisis bites. Share of state spending on SMEs falls. Truss under pressure to make tax cut U-turn. COVID-19 rescue schemes lost billions