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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Chief executives blame sleepless nights on their own senior team

April 1, 2026

An angry board, a languid share price, mutiny in the junior ranks. All things you would expect the fiduciary-responsibility-bound chief executives of major listed companies to worry about. But new research suggests bosses at the helm of the world’s largest firms have a more immediate source of sleepless nights: their own leadership team. According to [...]
FTSE 100 suffers worst month since Covid as Iran war rages on

April 1, 2026

The FTSE 100 suffered its worst month since the coronavirus in March, after the United States’ war in the Middle East sparked a historic market reaction that has seen government borrowing costs sprial and oil prices subjected to their largest single-month jump on record. Despite a relief rally on Tuesday, London’s blue-chip index fell more [...]
Andy Haldane: My mission to ignite Britain’s animal spirits

March 31, 2026

As the Bank of England’s chief economist, Andy Haldane had a front row seat to the maladies of UK’s sluggish economy. After a four-year stint running the RSA, he is back as president of the British Chambers of Commerce, and tells Ali Lyon business is still taxed mindlessly, over regulated, and far too risk averse. [...]
Heathrow to remain world’s most expensive airport

March 31, 2026

Heathrow is poised remain the most expensive airport in the world, under plans submitted by the the UK’s aviation watchdog which permit the hub to raise its passenger fee despite a frenzied lobbying effort from the airline industry. The Civil Aviation Authority has proposed lifting the maximum charge on carriers by 40p to an average [...]
Sadiq Khan to be handed peerage

March 27, 2026

Sadiq Khan is poised to be handed a peerage as part of an effort from Keir Starmer to placate one of the loudest Labour party critics of his stuttering administration. According to reports, the London mayor is one of several contenders in line to be elevated to the UK’s second chamber after May’s local elections, [...]
Globalisation obituaries ‘hopelessly premature’

March 26, 2026

Boosting trade is the single best way to improve the long-term fortunes of the UK despite the economy being hit by a barrage of supply chain fractures and geopolitical shocks, the Bank of England’s former chief economist has said. In his first speech as president of the British Chambers of Commerce, Andy Haldane told delegates [...]
US ambassador: UK’s closer ties with EU are a problem

March 26, 2026

Britain pursuing closer ties with the European Union will “not be viewed favourably” in the White House if it in any way affects the trading relationship between the UK and US, Washington’s ambassador to the UK has warned. Warren Stephens said that the government’s recent decision to adopt over 70 European rules onto the UK [...]
Ministers must ‘trade more’ in face of Iran war

March 25, 2026

The government must keep the option of an energy bailout for businesses on the table if oil prices continue to spike, the British Chambers of Commerce boss will say in a speech urging ministers to “trade more, not less” in the face of the Iran war. Shevaun Haviland will warn of the “profound” impact that [...]
IAG and Ryanair ‘best equipped’ to manage airlines’ fuel rationing

March 25, 2026

Ryanair and British Airways owner IAG are the two carriers best equipped to manage the crisis unfolding in the in the Middle East, according to a top investment bank which warned that potential supply rationing of jet fuel “could not be ruled out”. In a note published on Wednesday, Panmure Liberum said the pair of [...]
Rocco Forte: Inheritance tax grab has endangered my family firm

March 25, 2026

With luxury outposts across Europe, and plans to expand to the Gulf, Rocco Forte Hotels has become one of Britain’s most successful hospitality exports. But after being hit by a wave of damaging policies – including a potentially existential inheritance tax crackdown – he tells Ali Lyon, he is more disillusioned with Britain now, than [...]

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