EU referendum: Conservative chancellors and leaders attack Bank of England and George Osborne for dishonesty June 16, 2016 Four Conservative grandees, including two former chancellors and a pair of ex-leaders, have accused the Bank of England of "peddling phoney forecasts and scare stories", as they lashed out at George Osborne's plans for an emergency Brexit budget. Writing in The Telegraph this morning, the group – chancellors Norman Lamont and Nigel Lawson, and former leaders Iain Duncan-Smith and [...]
Show us the money: MPs want Green to plug £571m hole in BHS pensions June 16, 2016 Sir Philip Green must make a “generous” contribution to the BHS pension fund and provide more detail on profits taken from the retailer while it was under his ownership, according to two influential groups of MPs. The call from Iain Wright MP, chair of the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee, and Frank Field MP, chair of [...]
Seven out of ten Tories think that a Brexit vote would be good for entrepreneurs, according to new research June 16, 2016 Seven in 10 Conservative MPs say that Brexit would be good for British entrepreneurs, according to a Yougov survey. In research commissioned by The Entrepreneurs Network, the pollster found that 88 per cent felt entrepreneurial activity would improve if the UK was exempt from EU business regulation, while 70 per cent said it would be better for [...]
UK firms are not ready for a Brexit vote next week, according to 80 per cent of change experts June 16, 2016 UK businesses are insufficiently prepared for next week's referendum result, according to eight out of 10 change management experts. In a survey of 400 interim managers brought in to help firms manage change, 80 per cent said that UK businesses were not ready for the Brexit vote. Read More: Single market alternatives are worse, non-EU businesses [...]
A Brexit vote is a gamble on the future of the young, London’s lord mayor to warn June 16, 2016 Voting to leave the EU represents a gamble on the future of young people, the lord mayor of London will today warn. Speaking ahead of chancellor George Osborne and Bank of England governor Mark Carney at the Mansion House, Jeffrey Mountevans will say that the young are under-represented in the Brexit debate, despite the relative [...]
Former PM Gordon Brown will team with city leaders to warn against the impact of Brexit on Northern cities June 16, 2016 Former prime minister Gordon Brown will today team with the leaders of 10 of the UK's largest cities to warn that a Brexit vote would turn the North into a “wasteland” under the Conservatives. Council leaders from Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham and Sheffield say that high tariffs on goods exports, [...]
Quitting the EU would be “win-win” for the UK’s economy says Michael Gove June 15, 2016 Justice secretary Michael Gove has hit back at claims that a Brexit vote would hit the UK's finances, claiming that leaving the EU would be “win-win” the for UK. Treasury figures have forecast that the UK would be launched into a recession by a Brexit vote. However, speaking on the BBC last night, Gove hit [...]
Tata Steel writes to UK staff on benefits of EU membership June 15, 2016 Tata Steel has become the latest employer to write to its staff on the benefits of the UK's EU membership. The Indian giant's message follows similar commentary from BT and BAE Systems earlier this week. Although the firm avoided not explicitly encourage staff to vote for either the Leave or Remain campaigns, its' European head of public [...]
Nigel Farage takes on Bob Geldof in naval battles… it’s the latest bizarre round of the EU referendum June 15, 2016 The EU referendum campaign reached its logical conclusion today, with a fleet of Brexit backing fishermen hosing down Bob Geldof in the middle of the river Thames. Sir Bob arriving at Westminster. Harbour Master asking us to keep it down. #BattleOfThames pic.twitter.com/5htEGA5KWv — Mikey Smith (@mikeysmith) June 15, 2016 Geldof was leading a pro-Remain fleet down [...]
Leave campaigners unveil manifesto for post-Brexit reforms June 15, 2016 With less than 10 days to go before the referendum, Leave campaigners have unveiled a raft of reforms designed to be implemented if the UK votes to exit Europe. While senior leave campaigners including former London mayor Boris Johnson and justice secretary Michael Gove have insisted they want Prime Minister David Cameron to remain in [...]