Any re-nationalisation of Britain's energy providers under a Jeremy Corbyn-led government is unlikely to have any impact on the Irish operations of leading UK player SSE, as its business here trades in a separate energy market under a different regulatory regime.

British businesses reported their weakest growth in nearly six years during the past three months due to fears of a no-deal Brexit and rising global trade barriers, the Confederation of British Industry said yesterday.

Irish firms are increasingly downbeat the Brexit talks will work out well, a major survey has shown, as evidence mounts in Europe of the damage that Brexit already entails.

British business leaders have reacted with relief at the agreement of a transition deal between Britain and the EU amid fear firms could have faced a "cliff edge" break when the UK leaves in March 2019.

There are so many moving parts to the Brexit process that inevitably some sectors are going to be overlooked at different stages of the negotiation processes.

Shares in Mothercare plunged up to 20% to their lowest in 14 years after the baby goods retailer swung to a first-half loss and warned of weak trading in its international business.

British business leaders from companies including BT and Centrica said they wanted a three-year Brexit transitional deal to protect jobs in Britain and Europe.

The UK could be forced to toe the Brussels line on crucial legislation on privacy and national security for years after Brexit to maintain the free exchange of data with EU countries.

Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin, one of corporate Britain’s most outspoken supporters of the UK’s exit from the EU, earned a rebuke from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) after telling the organisation’s head to “put a sock in it” over Brexit negotiations.

The current political instability in Britain is likely to impact the country’s economic growth this year, said Standard & Poor’s chief economist for the European, Middle East and Africa.

The Brexit squeeze on British consumers has hurt the UK government’s finances as well as retailers, new figures show, indicating that the economic slowdown at the start of the year is now being felt more broadly.

The late Taoiseach Albert Reynolds once pointed out that you can cross the big hurdles successfully, but you get tripped up when you get to the small ones.

The way in which the UK leaves the EU and on what terms is critical for jobs and investment in Ireland, writes John Whelan.

Business groups on both sides of the Irish Sea said they were dismayed by prime minister Theresa May’s hard Brexit plans.

British consumers are downbeat about the economy’s prospects next year, when higher inflation is likely to erode their spending power, a major survey showed, despite signs that growth has remained robust since June’s Brexit vote.

Ireland’s growing labour force should help the country sustain a real economic growth rate of 3% over the next decade, a leading economic think-tank has forecast.

The pressure facing retailers over the ‘Long Black Friday’ weekend following the plunge in sterling since the Brexit vote could ease significantly as the euro faces the first of its own looming tests next week, according to analysts.

British chancellor Philip Hammond moved yesterday to put flesh on the bones of his promise of a “fiscal reset” following Brexit, unveiling a raft of spending measures aimed at boosting the country’s economy.

British retailers suffered their sharpest fall in sales in four years after last month’s vote to leave the EU, raising doubts about the ability of consumers to stave off a Brexit recession.

UK manufacturing confidence dropped to its lowest since the last recession after Britain voted to leave the EU, according to the Confederation of British Industry.

London’s recently elected mayor Sadiq Khan lays out the argument for staying in the EU, saying it is the young who will be most affected if Vote Leave wins

Of all the commitments in the programme for a partnership government, rural dwellers will reserve the biggest pinch of salt for the promise to bring next generation broadband to every house and business in the country by 2020.

Uncertainty ahead of the referendum on the UK's membership of the EU is having an impact on investment in the UK.

Former HSBC Holdings chief executive Michael Geoghegan is among 250 business leaders backing the push for the UK to leave the European Union.

Sterling fell sharply against the dollar and euro yesterday, hurt by a new bout of political uncertainty that soured the outlook for a currency already reeling from weeks of turmoil over whether Britain will stay in the EU.

The UK economy would face a “serious shock” even if were to strike new trade deals rapidly after leaving the EU, the Confederation of British Industry — the CBI — has said in a major report published today.

Irish manufacturing continued to grow last month, but the pace of expansion was the slowest for two years — raising fears about the the outlook for expansion.

Sterling headed for its biggest weekly decline in more than a month against the dollar late yesterday as UK prime minister David Cameron stepped up efforts to reach a deal with fellow European leaders over the terms of UK membership of the bloc.

Banking giant HSBC has announced it will keep its headquarters in the UK after a high-profile lengthy review.

Specialist building materials provider Kingspan has delivered a significantly better-than-expected full-year forecast, suggesting its 2015 profits should increase by nearly 70%, despite global economic confidence wavering.

ENDA KENNY may not be the most powerful ally of British Prime Minister David Cameron in his demand for EU reforms but he is strategically important nonetheless.

The UK’s former finance minister Nigel Lawson has said he would lead the campaign in David Cameron’s Conservative Party for Britain to exit the EU, saying the prime minister would fail to win significant concessions in his reform bid.

Britain’s public finances deteriorated unexpectedly last month, recording their worst August in three years, and a decline in industrial orders signalled that a global slowdown is hitting the country’s economy.

Britain’s economy will grow more strongly than previously thought this year and in 2016, an industry group said yesterday, as it also brought forward its prediction for the timing of Britain’s first rate increase in over seven years.

The UK could lose up to £31 billion (€43bn) in trade by 2030 because of the failure to increase flights to Brazil, Russia, India and China alone, according to research.

Britain’s private sector recorded its strongest economic growth for a year in the three months to May, according to the Confederation of British Industry, in contrast to weak official data for the first quarter of 2015.

British retail sales growth surged in May as expectations for sales next month hit their highest level in more than 26 years, an industry survey showed.

The UK Labour Party has hardened its opposition to leaving the European Union, drawing a dividing line with the Conservatives less than eight months before next year’s general election.