Despite struggles, the UK still has all the ingredients for growth. Davos 2025 is an opportunity to remember that, writes Chris Hayward.

The Swiss town of Davos will this week host what amounts to an exclusive watch party for the season premiere of Donald Trump’s second term. The annual gathering of the World Economic Forum (WEF), held in the alpine resort each January,

Catch up on Wednesday’s news, views and action from day three of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

We are closing our live coverage of the 2025 Word Economic Forum in Davos. Goodbye. Al Hassaina Mosque on December 3, 2021, and the mosque after its destruction in an Israeli strike during the war, in Gaza City, January 22, 2025. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/Mahmoud Al-Basos

Hi there, it’s Ed Stapley, a reporter in London on a stint with Pursuits, and one of the most exhilarating times of the year is here: the World Economic Forum’s 55th annual meeting in Davos. Global leaders are packing their bags for a busy week of meetings, interviews and discussions happening Jan. 20-24.

Ed Miliband said a Heathrow expansion with a third runway ‘won’t go ahead’ if it doesn’t meet the Government’s climate targets, as Rachel Reeves hints at support for the plan.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks with CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 16th, 2024. The World Economic Forum officially began on Monday, but it's Tuesday when the event really kicks off.

Anil Agarwal, founder and chairman of Vedanta Group, acquired the historic Riverside Studio in London in 25. Post the acquisition, Riverside Studios has been named Anil Agarwal Riverside Studios Trust.

That's a question being debated in the rarefied air of Davos, Switzerland, as billionaires and less wealthy ... associate professor in the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science, to weigh in.

Jonathan Reynolds, Labour’s business secretary, told the Financial Times, “We have to respond to the agenda the US president has just set out with our own dynamism… Every country has to do it.”

In a major growth speech in Oxfordshire, Reeves said that a third runway at London's Heathrow Airport was "badly needed," adding it would boost investment, support economic expans

The Government's revised tone about the UK's economic prospects - deployed in Davos and across the airwaves - has been music to the ears of my peers in the City.