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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We are governed by people who don’t know what they’re doing

August 6, 2025

Almost 100,000 jobs in the hospitality sector have disappeared since the government unveiled its hike to employers’ National Insurance Contributions, and lowered the threshold at which it is paid. Employers have also had to contend with a rise in the minimum wage amid a storm of other headwinds including inflation, energy costs and generally weak [...]
Brits are gloomy – and not just about the weather

August 5, 2025

Writers often agonise over how a column performs. I can see how many people read the online version of the Editor’s Letter and while our analytics don’t yet tell me what people make of my opinions they often spark a lively debate on LinkedIn. That can be satisfying, but that’s a self-selecting crowd of people [...]
Week in Business: Is it time to leave the country?

July 31, 2025

Facing low growth and high taxes, more and more of my friends are having the same conversation, for the same reasons.
Banks back in crosshairs as Labour eyes tax hikes

July 31, 2025

George Osborne’s likely payday from the sale of Robey Warshaw to US giant Evercore won’t be the first time he’s extracted money from the banking sector. In his inaugural 2010 Budget he announced a UK bank levy of 0.05 per cent on certain bank liabilities. Conceived in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the [...]
Cut tax for under 35s or watch them leave the country

July 30, 2025

The most pressing choice I faced over the past week was whether to swim in the pool or the sea. We lounged our way from lazy lunch to long dinner, occasionally mustering the energy to stroll to the boulangerie. As I put the key in the front door of our south London home last night [...]
Week in Business: Reeves bets on the banks but economy still hurting

July 17, 2025

Rachel Reeves set out to charm the City this week, but elsewhere, the economy is reeling from high taxes and low confidence.
Sticky inflation takes shine off Reeves’ week

July 17, 2025

If the Chancellor was hoping to bask in the glow of supportive front-page coverage the morning after her Mansion House speech, she would have been disappointed. The spectacular revelations of Whitehall’s hushed-up cock-up over Afghan refugees knocked her off the top of the news agenda pretty much across the board. Only City AM gave her [...]
City raises a glass to Reeves’ reforms

July 16, 2025

The City may have been a bit damp and grey yesterday but the Chancellor appeared as a welcome ray of sunshine. At City AM, we haven’t held back in our criticism of this government’s economic policies – and we’ll return to that theme before long, I’m sure – but we also believe in giving credit [...]
Tax debate goes from comedy to tragedy

July 15, 2025

When I suggested recently that we were going to experience déjà vu, with another summer of endless tax rise speculation, I didn’t imagine the experience would be quite so profound. And yet, having already enjoyed the spectacle last year of Labour MPs trying to define “working people” they’re now treating us to a rerun of [...]
Week in Business: The tragedy of Labour’s tax addiction

July 10, 2025

From the housing market to the stock exchange, some taxes need to be reformed or reduced - but this government only wants to hike rates.

Andy Burnham pledges ‘cost £63bn’ – and tax ideas could backfire

World Cup sponsors could pay price if Infantino’s Fifa sell-off goes ahead

People read less: Do we still need the Booker Prize?

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