Bloomberg The opening of the Elizabeth Line, the 15 billion-pound ($19.5 billion) London railway that will connect Heathrow Airport to Canary Wharf, has been delayed by at least nine months to allow for more safety testing. The start date for the initial phase of service, previously set for December, has been moved to autumn 2019, the line’s builder said. Construction ...

Bloomberg The breadth of wealth inequality in the UK was laid bare in new analysis published on Saturday. While the divide is most pronounced in London, where richer households are now 24 times wealthier than poorer ones, other regions have experienced a similar trend since the global financial crisis, according to the Resolution Foundation. The value of household assets such ...

Bloomberg The European Union should scrap twice-yearly time changes and keep its clocks on what is currently summertime, said the bloc’s executive arm. On August 31, the European Commission unveiled the results of a public consultation on the merits of the decades-old practice of capitalising on natural daylight by putting clocks forward by 60 minutes between late March and late ...