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Healey: We don’t have as much money as we did under New Labour

Politics

Chancellor John Healey has warned Labour members that the government does not have available funds to spend more on public services. In his address to party activists, Healey said Tony Blair’s government in the late 1990s and early 2000s had more flexibility with public finances given higher growth rates and lower amounts of debt. The […]
Drama in the City as Lord Mayor frontrunner pulls out over ‘criminal proceedings’ facing close associate

Politics

Opinion

Are we regulating all the fun out of fireworks?

Opinion

As Truro cancels its Bonfire Night display, the government is consulting on tightening regulations around fireworks that could put a dampener on this great British tradition, says Steve Raper Nobody is proposing to ban Bonfire Night. Of course they aren’t; but there is more than one way to make a tradition disappear. As Brits, we […]
Labour will learn to love deregulation

Opinion

Is Canary Wharf Back? Barclays' Mega Bet
The City should prepare for Burnham's tax raid
Motor finance compensation in doutbt, Thatcher aide on 'No. 10 North' and: what is co-living?
Why Andy Burnham Could Spell Disaster for the UK Economy
Sky buys chunk of ITV, what the City makes of Burnham, and $8m World Cup tickets

Sport

Nike, Adidas and Puma put historic differences aside to target tariffs and inactivity crisis

Sport Business

The sporting goods industry is no stranger to bitter rivalries, from the family split that spawned Adidas and Puma to the former’s decades-long battle for supremacy with Nike. Now, however, those brands and others have united to lobby policymakers worldwide for lower tariffs as part of a joined-up approach which they say will tackle rising […]
Financing for Crystal Palace stand construction not completely secured

Sport Business

The Punter

Have faith in Dalo and Djan to land field Cam

Sport

THERE is a feast of action to get stuck into from Newmarket this week, with two Group One contests and the deeply competitive Cambridgeshire Handicap (3.40pm) headlining the bill on Saturday afternoon. The Cambridgeshire boasts the largest maximum field size of any Flat race in the UK with 35 slots up for grabs, which is […]
Take Orthodox approach in wide-open Middle Park

Sport
Episode 106: Ayr and Newbury

Sport

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