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Businesses urge Healey to reduce cost pressures in pre-Budget campaigns

Economics

The bosses of Britain’s largest industry groups have urged Chancellor John Healey to reduce the cost of business in order to boost growth across the UK economy, City AM has been informed. Several business chiefs sent letters to the Treasury on Wednesday night with demands for the government to relieve pressures on employers. Correspondence landing […]
FTSE 100 Live: Stocks to fall; Trump says Iran war ‘will end after midterms’

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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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

Here’s to the quiet heroism of county cricket: Pride, jeopardy and extraordinary matches

Sport Business

While the world’s white-ball franchise leagues flash past in a blur of sixes, jazzy uniforms and fireworks, England’s red-ball heartbeat, the County Championship, keeps thumping, writes Ed Warner. We painted the County Ground in Hove yellow on Tuesday to celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of John Wisden just under a mile away in Crown […]
Royal Antwerp case shows European sport ought to copy US interventionist approach

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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