By: Christian May

Editor-in-Chief Christian May is the Editor-in-Chief of City AM. He served in the role from 2015 to 2020 and returned in 2024. He writes the daily Editor's Letter for print and online and releases The Week in Business roundup video each Thursday. He is particularly interested in the health of London's capital markets, economic policy, politics, regulation and business activity in the City of London. He regularly appears in the broadcast media and presents a daily Business News slot on LBC at 0730, Monday to Friday. Find Christian on X and LinkedIn.

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Starmer’s defence pledges will trigger a tax bombshell

June 3, 2025

Here’s a cracker of a pub quiz question for you: what links mega-rich non-doms, nuclear-powered submarines, congestion in Wigan and the Bank of England’s former chief economist? The answer, as so often appears to be the case, is tax. On the day that Keir Starmer unveiled a Strategic Defence Review that calls for nearly £70bn [...]
Heathrow’s story goes up in flames

May 28, 2025

Every weekday morning I’m up and ready to receive an important email that comes in at 6.30am. The email is sent by the producer of Nick Ferrari’s breakfast show on LBC, and it contains an initial plan for the stories that I’ll discuss with Nick on air exactly an hour later. It’s a slick routine [...]
Reform present Tories with chance to rebuild economic credibility

May 28, 2025

I bumped into a Tory MP in the City yesterday and after a cheerful catch up their mood crumbled when I asked about the state of their party. “We’re finished as a political force” was the frank assessment. A couple of hours later, Nigel Farage was making the same point on stage in Westminster, declaring [...]
Starmer plays a risky game on welfare reform

May 27, 2025

Rightly or wrongly, Labour decided that the first signal they should send as a new government was that they wouldn’t duck tough economic decisions. The cut to the winter fuel allowance was offered up as the ultimate proof of their seriousness; politically difficult but, we were told, financially necessary. A direct line was drawn between [...]
Week in Business: Will Starmer sack Rachel Reeves?

May 23, 2025

Cracks are appearing in Labour's economic strategy - will Keir Starmer roll the dice and look for a new Chancellor to change course?
Paris vs London: which city comes out on top?

May 22, 2025

Our front page story yesterday on Paris surging ahead of London in the rankings of tech sector hotspots got people talking, reigniting an ancient debate over the relationship – and rivalry – that exists between these two mighty capitals. Credit where it’s due; Paris has patiently built a deep and high-value tech sector. But it’s [...]
Reeves takes comfort in the promise of future growth

May 21, 2025

The government is having a good week. The Prime Minister, in particular, has a spring in his step following his UK-EU ‘reset’ summit. Addressing MPs in the House of Commons yesterday he seemed to have grown taller. True, it only takes a glance at pictures from last week of Starmer meeting Albania’s 6ft 7in leader [...]
Starmer sends his critics into a spin – but will Brexit deal deliver?

May 20, 2025

The Prime Minister says it’s now “time to move on from the stale old debates” of Brexit. It’s amazing he didn’t crack a grin as he said these words, knowing as he did that his critics would immediately work themselves up into a frenzy. The critics – including, but not limited to Nigel Farage and [...]
Week in Business: Small glass of champagne for Reeves?

May 15, 2025

There was some welcome economic growth in Q1 but it's in the rear view mirror; is there any on the horizon?
China could gatecrash Starmer’s diplomatic party

May 15, 2025

Keir Starmer has repeatedly said that the UK doesn’t need to choose between strengthening economic and trade ties with the US and deepening them with the EU. A few weeks ago, concern was growing in Whitehall that if the UK didn’t strike a deal with America then the chance of a tariff rapprochement could be [...]

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