By: Ali Lyon

Chief reporter Ali Lyon is the chief reporter at City AM, responsible for covering the full gamut of business, finance and wealth news. He has been at City AM full-time since July 2024. Get in touch with tips via email: ali.lyon@cityam.com. Follow Ali on X: @alilyon_94

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Major workers’ rights changes delayed in bid to win over business

July 1, 2025

Controversial plans to hand new employees a glut of additional rights from day one and make flexible working the default will not be implemented until 2027, the government has said, after a deluge of warnings from industry that the measures would stifle firms’ ability to hire and invest. As part of the long-awaited roadmap for [...]
How to solve the UK’s non-dom conundrum

July 1, 2025

After industry experts poured cold water on Reform’s ‘Britannia Card’, and amid rumours the Chancellor is examining options to row back on elements of her non-dom reforms, Ali Lyon asks what policies might be on the table – and whether they will work. As Nigel Farage stepped up to a mundane-looking podium in a stuffy [...]
Investment plans and hiring intentions plunge

July 1, 2025

The latest Directors’ Economic Confidence Index from the IoD, which measures business leaders’ optimism in prospects for the UK economy, fell in June as the impact of tax hikes filters down into bosses’ confidence levels. The index fell back to -53 in June 2025, having risen to -35 in May, with investment intentions taking one [...]
Reeves to cut cash Isa allowance

June 30, 2025

Rachel Reeves is poised to unveil a cut to the tax-free cash Isa allowance in a bid to encourage British savers to invest in London-listed firms and breathe life into the UK’s ailing capital markets. According to the FT, the Chancellor will use her upcoming Mansion House speech to announce a lowering of the current [...]
Industry chiefs sound alarm over ‘horrific’ packaging tax

June 30, 2025

A new packaging tax that makes the producers of waste pay for their packaging to be recycled poses a multibillion-pound threat to UK businesses and will encourage firms to relocate their production abroad, senior industry figures have warned. The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) released on Friday the final fees for [...]
Metlen moves listing to London in £5bn boost for City

June 27, 2025

Greek industrial giant Metlen Energy & Metals hopes to list in London in August, in a much needed £5.1bn boost to the capital’s beleaguered stock market. The mining and energy firm confirmed on Friday that, after months of anticipation, it planned to move its primary listing from Athens to London on 4 August subject to [...]
Bond markets calm despite government benefits u-turn

June 27, 2025

The cost of government borrowing has stayed flat on Friday morning despite the Starmer administration’s costly benefits U-turn blowing a £3bn hole in the UK’s precarious public finances. Gilts – the name for UK government bonds – opened in a muted fashion across the curve. 10-year yields nudged down two basis points (bps) in early [...]
Bailey watching labour market softening ‘very closely’

June 26, 2025

Andrew Bailey has said his Monetary Policy Committee are watching signals of a rapidly softening labour market “very closely” in the wake of several soft employment readings and stark warnings of a slowdown from the recruitment industry. The Governor of the Bank of England told the British Chambers of Commerce’s summit that sticky wage growth [...]
Starmer thanks business for shouldering tax burden

June 26, 2025

Keir Starmer has thanked the British business community for bearing the brunt of his government’s tax raid in last year’s Budget, acknowledging he had asked a lot of UK plc since entering office. Addressing the British Chambers of Commerce’s (BCC) annual conference, the Prime Minister said the £23bn hike to employer national insurance contributions (NICS) [...]
Tories vow to rip up workers’ rights package

June 26, 2025

The Conservative Party will rip up Labour’s contentious workers’ rights overhaul if they are elected in a bid “once again” to convince voters it is the party of business. In a speech to business leaders on Thursday, shadow business secretary Andrew Griffith will warn attendees the Employment Rights Bill will hand “enormous power” to trade [...]

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