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Autumn Budget 2026: bank tax will put the City’s success at risk

It is 40 years since the Big Bang unleashed London to become the global financial centre that it is, but by hammering the sector with windfall taxes, John Healey risks putting that success at risk, says Chris Hayward Nigel Lawson’s Big Bang took London from a globally competitive financial and professional services sector to what […]

Chris Hayward
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