Boris predicts decade-long tech boom June 16, 2014 LONDON’S tech sector is growing by 5.1 per cent a year and will add another £12bn to the British economy over the next decade, mayor Boris Johnson said yesterday. As London Tech Week began, figures from South Mountain Economics and Bloomberg Philanthropies showed London has more people working in financial technology than any other city [...]
Pictures: The Boris Johnson-themed Japanese restaurant at County Hall June 11, 2014 London’s blonde-mopped mayor has had many a tribute to him in the capital; there’s Boris Bikes, there’s the oft-pedalled but as yet inexistant Boris Airport and now we’ve got the Boris restaurant. You might not have put Boris and Japanese cuisine together normally, but County Hall’s Izakaya Boris has. There’s a plastic [...]
Boris and Giuliani do their math June 10, 2014 THE mayor of London and former mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani put their heads together at Tower 42 yesterday, where they both met with the winners of London Count on Us primary school maths challenge. Ten-year-old pupil Azeezat Yusuff of Kender Primary School, in Lewisham, had thrashed Boris in a battle of the brains [...]
Boris Johnson praises finance hiring June 4, 2014 LONDON’S financial sector is ramping up its hiring of school leavers and recent graduates as part of Mayor Boris Johnson’s initiative to get an additional 2,020 trainees in investment management firms over the next six years. Aberdeen Asset Management, BlackRock and JP Morgan are among the 20 investment firms that have already hired 87 trainees [...]
Boris Johnson makes his final case for a new Estuary airport May 22, 2014 MAYOR of London Boris Johnson has made his final case for a new four-runway airport in the Thames Estuary, arguing that such a scheme could be built by 2029 and support 400,000 jobs across the country. In his latest submission to the government’s airports commission, Johnson insisted the airport “faces no insuperable obstacles to its [...]
Boris Bypass below-ground route revealed May 12, 2014 LONDON officials yesterday shed more light on where Boris Johnson’s planned £30bn underground ring road in central London would be built. The inner orbital tunnel, which is in “the very early stage” of planning according to City Hall, could offer two underground river crossings for motorists and link up to Hackney Wick. The Mayor of [...]
Boris slams transactions tax as a threat to the City April 30, 2014 A NEW tax on financial transactions (FTT) will drive business out of London, Boris Johnson warned yesterday, as the European Court of Justice kicked out a British challenge to the tax. Countries like France and Germany want to tax each trade of shares issued in their countries, wherever in the world they are traded. Bonds and derivatives [...]
Mind the snap: Boris poses for a strike selfie April 29, 2014 NEVER one abandon to his people to a morning of queueing at bus stops and squeezing, sardine-like, into Tube stations alone, Boris Johnson trooped down to London Bridge yesterday to support strike-stricken commuters. He was happy to pose for a selfie with a passer-by but deftly maintained a half-grimace to show his displeasure at the [...]
Heathrow and Boris clash over airport’s future March 31, 2014 HEATHROW has been drawn into a political dogfight over its role as a magnet for business, with the Mayor of London claiming a new town and technology hub on the site of the airport could lift the city’s economy. Meanwhile, Heathrow has argued that firms based nearby would downsize rather than adapt to a new [...]
Three things Boris wants to build at Heathrow instead of a new runway March 31, 2014 The Mayor of London has been a vocal supporter of a new airport to the east of London, so much so that one of the options was at one stage nicknamed Boris Island. Today, Boris Johnson has set out three possible uses for Heathrow if it were to close and make way for an East [...]