The Notebook: Businesses yet to schmooze Labour are set for a nasty shock June 18, 2024 Labour has come a long way, but its manifesto should raise eyebrows in the business community, writes Michael Martins.
Business investment: Another unwanted title for UK economy June 18, 2024 This is the third successive year in which the UK has ranked bottom among the world's richest economies in terms of investment.
Labour unlikely to secure major rewrite of Brexit deal as EU has ‘moved on’, report says June 18, 2024 Labour will face difficulties in securing major changes to Boris Johnson's Brexit deal because the European Union (EU) has "moved on" from Brexit, a new report suggests.
Labour pledges hundreds of new banking hubs in bid to revive ‘ghost town’ high streets June 17, 2024 Labour has pledged to open 350 new banking hubs in towns and villages across Britain over the next five years if it wins the general election on 4 July.
Labour will seek ‘improved’ post-Brexit trading terms with EU, Reeves says June 17, 2024 Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said that a new Labour government will seek to renegotiate aspects of Boris Johnson's Brexit deal.
National Wealth Fund will help create 650,000 jobs over five years, Reeves says June 17, 2024 Earlier this year the Shadow Chancellor announced the creation of a taskforce of experts to provide advice on crowding in private sector investment.
Who will bang the drum for free enterprise? June 17, 2024 For all their warm words for business, Starmer and Reeves share a bone deep belief that is the state the creates wealth and grows the economy, says Eliot Wilson When the result of a general election seems as certain as the outcome of this one, it is understandable that the private sector proceeds cautiously but [...]
Yes in my backyard! It’s time to get London building June 17, 2024 In JG Ballard’s High-Rise, life in a pseudo-luxury tower block disintegrates into atavistic violence with residents of different floors battling for territory and against the rigid class divisions the building itself imposes on them. London hasn’t quite reached this stage, but like all dystopias the novel magnifies a basic truth – that the urban environment [...]
All the major parties have pledged to build more houses. Can they deliver? June 16, 2024 In 2019, the Conservatives promised to ramp up construction of new homes to 300,000 per year by the middle of the 2020s, but the government has failed to make good on its promise.
General election 2024: Will Labour’s plan for growth work? June 13, 2024 If this miraculous recovery fails to arrive, then taxes will go up. That's not economics, that's arithmetic.