Bank chiefs reportedly slam Labour for excluding mid-sized lenders from financial services review December 12, 2023 A group of mid-sized and specialist banks have reportedly urged shadow City minister Tulip Siddiq to include them in the Labour Party’s financial services policy review.
Government not pursuing 98 per cent of Covid fraud tip-offs December 11, 2023 Just two per cent of Covid fraud tip offs are being investigated, the government has admitted.
Labour has no plans to change pensions triple lock, Kendall says December 5, 2023 Labour has “no plans” to change the pensions triple lock, shadow work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall has said.
Alistair Darling: Gordon Brown says briefings against his chancellor were ‘completely unfair’ December 1, 2023 Asked if he had apologised to Darling over the briefings, Brown said: “If there had been a briefing against him that was attributed to me, yes of course. I mean that was completely unfair.”
Strengthening EU ties will be first foreign policy goal, vows Labour’s David Lammy December 1, 2023 The MP for Tottenham added that if Labour were to win the election, there would be “a tonal shift” in UK-EU relations with a move to return to more regular talks between the governmental powers.
COP28: Net zero may need City to mobilise ‘trillions of pounds’, Rishi Sunak says December 1, 2023 Transitioning to net zero won’t happen “without mobilising hundreds of billions, if not trillions of pounds” of public and private investment, Rishi Sunak said on route to COP28.
More than half of London’s bank branches have shut since 2015 December 1, 2023 The capital has seen 745 branches - or 58 per cent - close down in the past eight years, data from Which.co.uk revealed.
COP28: Labour pledge to ‘make UK world’s green finance capital’ November 30, 2023 Labour would boost global investment by making Britain the green finance capital of the world, Sir Keir Starmer has said.
Alistair Darling dies aged 70: Heartfelt tributes paid to ‘one of the great chancellors’ November 30, 2023 Former Labour Chancellor Alistair Darling has died aged 70, his family have confirmed.
Small businesses to be front of the queue for government contracts if Labour elected November 29, 2023 Jonathan Reynolds he unveiled Labour’s Plan for Small Business, Reynolds told firms: “We know that government itself ought to be a better customer to small business.