UK Stock Market Today: FTSE 100 Rises as Mitchells & Butlers Soars and Whitbread Slumps – 28 November 2025

The UK stock market paused for breath on Thursday, 27 November 2025, as investors digested Rachel Reeves’s tax‑raising Autumn Budget and traded into the US Thanksgiving holiday in relatively thin volumes.

London’s stock market ended firmly higher on Wednesday as Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered her Autumn Budget, a tax‑raising package that still reassured investors and sparked a broad-based relief rally in equities, gilts and sterling. The FTSE 100 closed up about 0.9% at 9,691.58, while the more domestically focused FTSE 250 climbed 1.2%, its best session in more than a month. London South East