United Kingdom Business News API

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            "title": "UK undershoots annual borrowing target by £700m",
            "description": "But Iran war likely to blow hole in Rachel Reeves’s carefully crafted fiscal ‘headroom’ in coming months",
            "content": "The UK government came in below its annual borrowing target by £700m, official figures show – but the Iran war is likely to blow a hole in Rachel Reeves’s carefully calculated fiscal “headroom” over the coming months.\nThe government borrowed a net to... [1643 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/23/uk-undershoots-annual-borrowing-target",
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            "title": "The Asset Class by Hettie O’Brien review - private equity is coming for us all",
            "description": "A fascinating, infuriating, immaculately researched account of how wealth management giants snap up the services upon which rely to extract eye-watering profits",
            "content": "This is a dark tale. In its opening scene the author is in conversation with a textile artist in her workshop under the arches in Deptford – arguably one of the last neighbourhoods that credibly sustains London’s claim to be a city that supports crea... [4305 chars]",
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            "title": "Investor admits taking millions from Thurrock Council",
            "description": "Liam Kavanagh believes funds he received were for his own benefit, legal papers reveal.",
            "content": "A businessman has admitted that he took a \"substantial part\" of hundreds of millions of pounds in public money \"for his own benefit\".\nThurrock Council in Essex invested £655m through Liam Kavanagh, mostly towards solar farm projects, in the hope of f... [1170 chars]",
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