Balfour Beatty bullish on UK infrastructure outlook as profit hits £98m August 14, 2024 Investors were concerened after Chancellor Rachel Reeves unveiled plans to axe a string of UK infrastructure projects last month.
Minister urges insurers to ‘swiftly resolve’ riot claims August 12, 2024 Insurers have been urged to “swiftly resolve” claims from businesses which suffered damage during the recent rioting.
Violence on the streets has a long tail in terms of stability August 12, 2024 Starmer has built his vision on stability - but the riots could undermine all that, writes Eliot Wilson
Danger! Labour want all our new homes to be ugly August 9, 2024 Labour thinks it's 'ridiculous' to consider beauty when building new homes and towns. That's a travesty, says James Price
Assura: Group snaps up 14 private hospitals as firm gears up for Labour spending spree August 8, 2024 Healthcare property giant Assura has announced a £500m acquisition of a UK private hospital portfolio from Canadian group Northwest Healthcare Properties. The move comes following Labour’s commitment to use more private healthcare providers to help clear the NHS treatment backlog. The takeover includes 14 locations averaging 36 registered beds per hospital and is predominantly based [...]
Rachel Reeves’s investment cuts ‘concerning’ and send a ‘worrying signal’ says think tank August 7, 2024 In its latest set of forecasts, the National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NIESR) warned that the new government would fall well short of its growth target unless it lifted public investment.
‘Strike the right balance’: Rachel Reeves doesn’t rule out capital gains tax hike August 6, 2024 Rachel Reeves has refused to rule out a hike to capital gains tax, insisting it was vital to “strike the right balance” when it came to fiscal policy.
Labour’s mutant algorithm will put houses in places that need them least August 5, 2024 Why has Labour reduced building targets in areas where the housing crisis is most acute – like London – while blanketing more affordable places, like Burnley, with new development? It all comes down to the algorithm, explains Josh Coupland On Tuesday, newly crowned yimby queen, Angela Rayner announced a raft of measures to get Britain [...]
Government cancels £1.3bn in AI funding as spending cuts bite August 2, 2024 The new Labour Government has shelved £1.3bn of “unfunded” investment for UK tech and AI projects promised by the Conservatives. The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) said no new funding for the programmes had been allocated in the previous Tory government’s spending plans, and therefore will not be taken forward. It included £800m [...]
The real ‘black hole’ in the public finances is the debt July 31, 2024 The Chancellor is right, the public deserve to know just how bad the economy is – so she should be honest about the millions of pounds a day that are added to the national debt, says John O’Connell Reeves’ tone was one of righteous fury on Monday as she bellowed at the opposite benches for [...]