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Introduction AI is changing who UK businesses hire, and for what. New job titles are appearing on organisation charts that did not exist five years

For fourteen years I have had the privilege of supporting Hertfordshire’s Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), working alongside outstanding business leaders, local authorities, universities, colleges and

The United Kingdom rightly prides itself on being one of the world’s oldest democracies. Universal suffrage was not gifted lightly; it was earned over generations

Cambridge will continue to discover tomorrow’s medicines. Hertfordshire could help deliver tomorrow’s cures. Britain’s Life Sciences Strategy must recognise the difference. GSK’s announcement of a

Customer expectations have never been higher, and the tolerance for poor service has never been lower. As business owners, we’re seeing this shift unfold in

Brexit remains one of the most contested political decisions in modern British history, yet the economic record since the 2016 referendum provides a credible defence

“The United States was the greatest industrial Power in the world, and we were the second. Germany was only the third.” — Winston Churchill, Their

The annual announcement of the UK’s National Living Wage has become a familiar political ritual: a headline-grabbing figure, a promise of fairness, and a reaffirmation

In recent years, the United Kingdom has experienced climatic extremes that are not random anomalies but part of a clear and scientifically verified long‑term trend.

There is a persistent myth in British politics that government funds public services, and business merely operates within that system. The fiscal reality is the

I come from a world of no mobile phones and only three television channels. Childhood boredom was not an emergency; it was an expectation. Silence

Devolution has become one of the most used—and most misunderstood—words in British economic policy. For business communities, it often sounds like political rebranding: a reshuffle

Britain likes to say it wants to be a science superpower. In one Hertfordshire town, that ambition is no longer a slogan — it is

Britain likes to say it wants to be a science superpower. In one Hertfordshire town, that ambition is no longer a slogan — it is

The decision to start a business does not rest with this specific tax relief, however and what is completely bad for the UK, the decision

Britain is approaching a demographic watershed. As the Resolution Foundation warns, deaths are poised to exceed births for the first time outside exceptional years, driven

A growing number of GCSE pupils are still failing to pass English and Maths despite a slight rise in top grades, continuing a trend since

Today there is a genuine concern that our benefits claimant’s volume is increasing considerably, and we believe that there is a range of reasons why