‘Disastrous for the UK’: How the MPs’ pension fund abandoned Britain’s stock market June 14, 2024 Jeremy Hunt and Rachel Reeves have been squaring up to the UK’s pension sector in recent months with threats to strong-arm money managers into backing homegrown British companies - but they may do well to look closer to home.
Is Labour offering precisely what the country is craving? June 13, 2024 The contents of the manifesto were much the same - there were no ‘rabbits’ or anything else pulled out of hats.
Election 2024: Five things we learned from Labour’s manifesto launch June 13, 2024 Here are five things we learnt from Labour’s manifesto launch.
Election 2024: Keir Starmer publishes Labour manifesto for growth June 13, 2024 Kier Starmer has laid out his party's plans for growth.
Private equity bosses have avoided paying income tax on a trillion dollars of gains June 13, 2024 “All the governments are talking about taxing carried interests. So my role is to provide the best estimate of the number,” Phalippou told the Financial Times.
Election 2024: Labour will seek mandate for growth with ‘wealth creation’ manifesto June 13, 2024 Keir Starmer will seek a “mandate for economic growth” as he unveils Labour’s election manifesto, pledging to “be the party of wealth creation”.
Election 2024: Three things to watch out for in Labour’s manifesto June 13, 2024 Here are three things to watch out for in Labour’s manifesto that might shape the campaign to come.
Labour worked hard to woo business, but now comes the real test June 13, 2024 The Tory party manifesto, undeliverable and shaky though it was on the numbers, did have something going for it. The gradual abolition of national insurance to be replaced with a single income tax; more housebuilding; cutting the time it takes to get spades in the ground on major infrastructure projects. If you take it at [...]
Shares in Lloyds, Natwest and HSBC jump as Reeves appears to rule out Labour raid on lenders June 12, 2024 Shares in the UK's high street banks were among the biggest risers in a wider market rally on Wednesday.
April GDP figures show scale of the challenge if Starmer wins the election June 12, 2024 Philip Shaw, chief UK economist at Investec, said "April’s numbers represent a blip in the recovery story rather than the start of a new downturn".