William Naylor
William covers business, the housing market, and personal finance.
Stories by William
Reform piles pressure on fuel duty as diesel hits £2 and Google Maps tool faces “rage bait” backlash
Robert Jenrick demanded Chancellor John Healey “listen to motorists” as diesel reached £2 a litre with the 5p duty cut ending in January, while drivers dismissed Labour's new fuel price tool as inaccurate.
Royal Mail to cut up to 2,500 head office jobs by end of 2027
The proposed cuts would fall on the Farringdon Road head office and support roles through natural attrition and voluntary redundancy, with no compulsory redundancies and no cuts to frontline delivery staff.
September car sales hit nine-year high as electric demand surges
Registrations rose 12.1 per cent to 350,518, the strongest September since 2017, with nearly 100,000 battery electrics sold, though the industry still trails the Government's EV mandate.
What the earnings figures mean for the state pension triple lock
Pay growth of 3.9 per cent sets a floor under next April’s uprating, but the final figure waits on September’s inflation data.
House prices tell two stories as Lloyds and Nationwide diverge
Lloyds reported the first annual fall in prices since November 2023; Nationwide recorded a 1.6 per cent annual rise. Both agree on one thing: the market is barely moving.