5:08pm

Business leaders optimistic on economy

Confidence at highest level for almost two years

2:18pm

Mercedes-Benz fined over price fixing

Three UK dealers also admit breaching competition law

11:07pm

Directors jailed for tax evasion

Businessmen lied about cash they hid outside UK

8:34pm

Digital records reveal former criminals

Errant Britons from Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian eras exposed

EE (Everything Everywhere) store, a joint venture between France Telecom SA and Deutsche Telekom AG ©Bloomberg Undercover Economist 6:10pm

Don’t blame Ofcom if 4G price isn’t right

Bidders shrank demands in mobile spectrum auction

Fred Bassett, gangmaster at his office in Wisbech. ©Si Barber Emma Jacobs from MANAGEMENT 3:35pm

An eye for the pick of the crop

The gangmaster Fred Bassett adopts a pragmatic approach to using migrant workers

The Treasury Building ©Bloomberg From GLOBAL ECONOMY 11:43am

Income tax receipts boost public finances

£11.4bn budget surplus flattered by first QE transfer

From UK POLITICS & POLICY 10:05am

Report in favour of prison privatisation

Contracts should be offered to run all jails, says think-tank

From UK POLITICS & POLICY 9:16am

Over-60s ‘should go back to university’

UK universities minister stresses worth of skilled older workforce

From COMMENT 7:08pm

UK energy policy restricts growth

Britain needs to get capital flowing into power, writes Richard Lambert

From COMPANIES Feb 20, 2013

Funding boost for UK’s tech start-ups

Top US seed funder TechStars merges with London-based Springboard

From GLOBAL ECONOMY Feb 20, 2013

Job creation grows but wages suffer

Average earnings rise at lowest rate for 2½ years

Feb 20, 2013

4G sale falls short of forecasts by £1.2bn

Prices fail to ignite in UK’s superfast mobile service auction

From COMPANIES Feb 20, 2013

Retailers call for business rates freeze

Trade body wants predictable system of increases

From GLOBAL ECONOMY Feb 20, 2013

Employers less likely to shed workers

Warning as consultancy shows 3.5m people have lost jobs

From COMPANIES Feb 19, 2013

Auction of 4G spectrum draws to close

Mobile operators await results of successful bidders

Feb 19, 2013

Ofgem chief warns on energy prices

UK faces prolonged lack of capacity, says Alistair Buchanan

From COMPANIES Feb 19, 2013

Drive for electric cars wins funds boost

Government to pay most of cost of installing chargers

From EUROPE Feb 19, 2013

EU banks face strict transparency rules

Brussels seeks country-by-country tax breakdown

From UK POLITICS & POLICY Feb 19, 2013

Minister confident over high-speed rail

Legal move is not ‘major hiccup’, says Burns

MOST POPULAR NOW ON FT.COM

Jim Pickard and Kiran Stacey, FT Westminster correspondents, share the latest news and analysis on the UK's political scene.

More FT Twitter accounts