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“Hunt seeks to unlock Brexit dividend by ditching financial rules”
Jeremy Hunt’s package of reforms to financial services regulation has been trailed as a 21st...
“Brexit fails to stop Brits flocking to the EU”
My own anecdotal evidence confirms this. Just as many clients, not many but a steady trickle, are...
“Post-Brexit regulatory shake-up: What could be the implications of a Big Bang 2.0?”
The ‘Big Bang’ of the 1980s had far-reaching consequences. Rules, many unwritten traditions...
“Watch out for Boris’s snake oil claims of a high wage economy”
The last time wages got too high was when the trades unions were working on the ‘levelling up’. In...
“Hospitality worker wages rise as sector faces staffing crisis, new data shows”
This can be a positive or a negative, depending on which side of the (still live) Brexit argument...
“Treasury to hand FCA big new regulatory mandate”
So the FCA is going to be asked to ‘reduce burdens for firms whilst maintaining high standards of...
“Stealth taxes show Rishi is a savvy operator”
Most radio and TV chatter focused on what wasn’t in the Budget. Nothing on social care, no extra...
“General election 2019: Row breaks out over Labour spending plans”
Both Labour and Tories are like divorced parents vying for the kid’s affections (we being the...
“Brexit: Boris Johnson to try for 12 December election”
The last December election was in 1923 (parents ask your grandparents), when PM Stanley Baldwin...
“Global stock markets fall with FTSE 100 worst-hit”
Look, I’m not a fund manager, haven’t studied economics since the 1970s but have been doing this a...
“Boris Johnson faces showdown in Parliament”
When I told my mum that school was to start on 3rd September, she immediately said ‘Ah, the day...
“Chinese companies continue to drive growth in the UK”
I was chatting to friend who’s worked in the electricity industry whole career, first in what now...
“Revealed: Brexit impact on house prices in every London borough”
Property prices fell last month, apart from, bizarrely, in N Ireland and Scotland. London’s worst,...
“UK’s Hammond sees more spending, tax cuts if Brexit deal done: FT”
Most parents have resorted to bribery to keep kids from fighting in the back of the car. It works...