Helia Ebrahimi is the Economics Correspondent for Channel 4 News.
Channel 4 News' Economics Correspondent Helia Ebrahimi reports on the big changes in the economy and the public finances - and how they'll influence the world you live in.
The government has announced more than £60 billion of investment creating 38,000 jobs at its investment summit. The Prime Minister set out his vision for growth, promising to “rip up” the bureaucracy that blocks investment – and restore public services. Sir Keir Starmer told business leaders the bill on workers rights would help improve growth,…
The Institute for Fiscal Studies says the Chancellor Rachel Reeves may need to raise up to £25 billion a year from higher taxes – to avoid a return to austerity.
Does the government’s announcement of these extra billions suggest the upcoming budget is set to be less doom-laden than the Treasury has been suggested?
The answer to a lot of the big questions being asked here is “wait for the budget”, but there are signs that the Government is gearing up to increase investment in infrastructure, things like roads, equipment and buildings, which is sometimes called capital spending.
As expected, the Bank of England has held interest rates at five percent, after cutting them from 5 and a quarter percent last month. The Bank’s governor Andrew Bailey said the rate could come down “gradually over time” if inflation stays low.
Higher pay deals – like those we’ve just been hearing about – have been driven by the cost of living crisis of the last 2 years.
New figures show the economy flatlined in July, recording no growth at all for the second month in a row.
Good news for homeowners with mortgages as interest rates have been cut for the first time in more than four years.
Channel 4 News spoke to three generations of one middle-income family, all affected by the cost-of-living crisis in their own way.
The Chancellor Rachel Reeves has told MPs the Government has inherited a £22 billion overspend from the Tories – and set out plans to reduce the deficit over the next two years.
The Prime Minister has stated that his plan starts with the economy and aims to fix the foundations of the nation.
Solving the pressures on the NHS would be a lot easier if there was faster economic growth – with higher tax revenues as a result.
One of the first acts of the new Labour government may well be taking Thames Water into public ownership.
Krishnan Guru-Murthy: As we’ve just heard, the Chancellor promised to ‘get Britain building again’ with a wave of planning reforms this morning. But how will this actually work? Our economics correspondent Helia Ebrahami has been to one so-called grey-belt site to find out.
Our Economics Correspondent Helia Ebrahimi is outside Downing Street.