The supplier’s customer base grew to 7.3 million across the UK in its most recent financial year, making it the country’s largest energy supplier.

The energy giant said its output growth in renewable power generation had happened despite sometimes adverse weather late last year.

The sector saw slight output growth in January, but firms reported that cost inflation rose to its highest rate since April 2024.

The blue-chip index was coming off its sharpest drop of 2025 so far the previous day.

Office for National Statistics boss Sir Ian Diamond told MPs that he is ‘super hopeful’ about its work to improve the labour force survey.

A cross-party group of MPs renewed their criticism of the Financial Conduct Authority, as the watchdog denied claims it has not offered to meet them.

British and European markets were rocked early on Monday following the imposition of new tariffs by the US president over the weekend.

New orders and jobs continued to fall across the board, as firms warned that a weak economic outlook in the UK was hitting small factories hardest.

The Bank of England’s top economists will meet on February 6 when forecasters predict they will cut the base interest rate to 4.5%.

The Danish company is behind many of the UK’s offshore wind farms but has struggled with rising costs in other countries.

The FTSE 100 firm is to offload two of its main businesses, after a US activist investment group said it needs to boost its share price.

The bank is the latest large company to roll back its flexible working policies brought in during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Apprentice star, who owns a large portfolio of central London office buildings, made the comments in a BBC interview.

Andrea Baldo said the luxury fashion company will focus more on ‘Britishness’ in future to counter a nosedive in profits.

The luxury handbag giant saw sales slump over Christmas, partly as a result of rapidly falling demand in its key Chinese market.

The Chancellor backed the expansion of Heathrow, and plans to turn Oxford and Cambridge into ‘Europe’s Silicon Valley’ in a bid to boost the economy.

The energy major said profits fell after a year of operating in ‘a lower price environment’, amid shrinking margins from its oil refining business.

Managers in its head office and Tesco Mobile phone shops, as well as staff at some of its in-store bakeries, will be affected.

Acting chief executive Neil Brocklehurst said the move was ‘resetting’ the Post Office in a note to staff on Wednesday.

The UK’s fifth-largest supermarket chain said its recent turnaround progress was ‘set back’ by the issue.