Business

The pound and the FTSE 100 have surged higher as the Conservatives secured a majority in the general election.

A major change to timetables across Britain will take effect on Sunday, adding 1,000 new weekly services as well as the first non-stop journey between London and Bristol in decades.

The US and China have outlined a cooling in their 17-month long trade war, helping push US stock markets to record highs.

It has been a productive 24 hours for Ian Blackford, the SNP's leader at Westminster.

Uber has appealed against Transport for London's (TfL) decision to strip its operating license to work in the UK's capital.

There will have been a huge sigh of relief across Britain's boardrooms following Boris Johnson's election victory.

Donald Trump has congratulated Boris Johnson on his huge election win and is promising a "massive" post-Brexit trade deal between the UK and US.

A leading business group has urged Boris Johnson to resist "arbitrary negotiating deadlines" after winning the general election on a promise to "Get Brexit Done".

The election message was a pledge to "get Brexit done". Repeated on posters, adverts, aprons, T-shirts. Printed wherever there was a space.

The TopShop tycoon Sir Philip Green has struck a £310m deal to remortgage the Oxford Street flagship of his struggling retail empire.