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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Burnham might lift Labour’s mood but he won’t save the country

June 23, 2026

It was a little under two years ago that Keir Starmer stood outside 10 Downing Street and declared that his new government would “end the era of noisy performance [and] tread a little more lightly on your lives.” It was a bold ambition and, after a shambolic end to Tory rule, a welcome one. Was [...]
City trader: ‘My coke dealer came to the Canary Wharf office every day at 9am’

June 18, 2026

A former star City trader has opened up about a devastating cocaine addiction that devoured hundreds of thousands of pounds – and nearly killed him. Kent Bray talks to City AM Editor Christian May about his high-flying career at Citibank and his rock-bottom drug addiction. In a remarkably candid interview Bray, who mentored YouTube activist [...]
Burnham’s focused on spending but at least Streeting’s thinking about growth

June 17, 2026

So, what’s it going to be? An end to 40 years of neoliberalism or a future shaped by progressive capitalism? That, at least, is the choice represented by Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting. The former health secretary delivered an impressive speech yesterday, offering an alternative economic vision to the more left-leaning instincts of Labour’s candidate [...]
The EU has regulated itself out of the AI race but the UK is still in the game

June 16, 2026

After months of debate and final negotiations that stretched long into the night, EU officials were jubilant when, as 2023 came to a close, the European Parliament reached an agreement on what would become the EU’s AI Act; a sprawling legal framework designed to regulate artificial intelligence across all member states. The EU’s top officials [...]
Never forget the undeniable moral case for capitalism

June 11, 2026

Critics of capitalism describe it as immoral. In pointing to subjective (and sometimes objective) examples of unethical or harmful behaviour they conclude that capitalism is the enabling or even necessary force. Others, in so far as they stop to think about it, may conclude that the free-market system is amoral; that it is utterly indifferent [...]
An emboldened – or desperate – new government will look to wealth taxes

June 10, 2026

Wealth taxes are climbing back up the political agenda as the Labour party begins the process of reinventing itself for a post-Starmer era. Wes Streeting thinks he’s found “a wealth tax that works” by hiking capital gains tax while Andy Burnham is flirting with a land value tax that would naturally hit wealthy areas the [...]
Jeremy Hunt is right to ask Can We Be Rich Again?

June 9, 2026

With the CBI’s latest economic forecasts warning of a dramatic spike in unemployment and a prolonged period of anaemic GDP growth, it’s a good time to reflect on the question posed by former chancellor Jeremy Hunt in his latest book, Can We Be Rich Again? The book is the latest in a series of works [...]
In 23 months Labour has dragged the UK economy to its knees

June 4, 2026

Reading our interview with billionaire John Caudwell, in which he says he was “misled” by Labour’s pitch for power, I’m reminded of just how unambiguous Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves were in the run-up to the 2024 election. They promised to be “the most pro-business government this country has ever seen.” Some of us were [...]
Is ‘disinformation’ really one of the biggest challenges facing London?

June 3, 2026

All power to the Lady Mayor and her newly assembled team of City leaders who want to shout from the rooftops about the strengths and assets of our great capital city. Dame Susan Langley will tonight launch a new campaign, Team UK, backed by some of the Square Mile’s biggest business and industry groups, with [...]
Mandelson Files add insult to injury, but the patient was already beyond saving

June 2, 2026

The deluge of emails, Whatsapp messages and hand-written notes released yesterday cover the full range of political and diplomatic life, from the absurd to the poignant; from rows over a gift for Donald Trump to soul-searching over Keir Starmer’s failures, it’s all there in black and white. What’s clear at a glance is quite how [...]

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