Interview with new Make UK chairman Lord Harrington on the industrial strategy, FDI and growth The veteran businessman and politician will have an important role shaping UK industry half a century after watching its decline growing up in Leeds www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

Delays in securing government support have led AstraZeneca to miss a key internal deadline on a proposed £450 million investment in a new vaccines facility in Speke, despite the business secretary being warned privately that it was an “urgent issue” www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

The administrators of Safe Hands Plans, the pre-paid funerals company whose collapse has left 46,000 customers with a combined £60 million shortfall, have succeeded in appointing liquidators to a Cayman Islands company where customer money was funnelled www.thetimes.com/article/346c...

AstraZeneca, Britain’s most valuable public company, has made about £45 million in payments to doctors and healthcare organisations in Russia since the war against Ukraine, despite the UK’s growing involvement www.thetimes.com/article/ac81...