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Burnham warned against using ‘accounting trick’ to ramp up borrowing

Economics

Andy Burnham and John Healey have been warned against using an “accounting trick” to ramp up borrowing given the volatility shaking bond markets and traders’ vigilance to extra gilt issuance. Analysts at Oxford Economics said that it looked likely the government would use extra borrowing across bodies like the British Business Bank and the National […]
As it happened: FTSE 100 dives as oil marches to $106; Trump threatens long war

FTSE 100 Live

Opinion

The real divide in British politics: fantasists vs realists

Opinion

The serious policy conversations this country needs to have on issues such as health, tax and growth are currently being held hostage by the fantasy-based class who never let a fact get in the way of a feeling, says Harry Richer A new divide is dominating British politics. Forget left versus right or the haves […]
White working class boys need jobs, not ‘schemes’

Opinion

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Sport

Bath City tipped to be next Wrexham after non-league record £6m investment

Sport Business

A consortium led by mobile gaming entrepreneur Andrew Stalbow has completed a takeover of Bath City FC in a £6m deal said to represent a record investment for non-league football. Stalbow, who helped create the Best Fiends and Angry Birds games franchises, heads an international group of investors which also includes executives from consultancy giant […]
Inter Milan owner Oaktree keen to copy Chelsea BlueCo multi-club model

Sport Business

The Punter

Back Joseph’s Enceladus to beat Father’s Christmas

Sport

SATURDAY’s card from Doncaster features the final Classic of the British Flat season, the Group One Betfred St Leger (3.35pm). Derby winner Christmas Day heads the market in a bid to give Aidan O’Brien a fourth St Leger win in as many years. He holds clear claims stepping up to this trip for the first […]
Dubai and Spirit look sure to be in the Mix at Chester

Sport
Episode 105: Doncaster St Leger Festival and Chester

Sport

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