The government is to publish the long-delayed results of probes into Abu Dhabi’s failed attempt to buy The Daily Telegraph – a move which risks stoking tensions with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) amid a row over Andy Burnham’s links to the owners of Manchester City.

The UK economy has grown, confounding predictions it would shrink, official figures show.

The UK’s leading hospitality businesses have committed to hiring 100,000 young people not in education, employment or training (NEET), it has been announced.

Andy Burnham’s top business advisor has called in some of Britain’s most valuable private companies and a group of major investors for talks aimed at boosting London’s flagging pipeline of bumper stock market listings.