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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Labour’s election campaign rides on shameful NHS scaremongering

November 4, 2019

Labour’s campaign will be wildly populist, gambling on the theory that voters are ready for a radical alternative. To make their case, promises of free education, free social care, higher pay, lower rent and better services will be offered alongside a dystopian vision of Tory Britain under Boris Johnson. Read more: Corbyn brands government’s fracking [...]
Corbyn leads his troops into a vicious class war

November 1, 2019

Running an election campaign on the basis of a question is a risky business. Ted Heath found this out after the 1974 election during which he’d asked the voters: “Who runs Britain?” The response was clear: “Not you.” Yesterday, Jeremy Corbyn launched his own pitch for Number 10 with a rather more divisive, even sinister, inquiry: “Whose [...]
The real question is: socialism, yes or no?

October 30, 2019

Three and a half years after the Brexit referendum and two and a half years since the last General Election, voters will be invited back to the polling booths on 12 December to shake the parliamentary snow globe once again. An election isn’t required by law until May 2022 — imagine that — but the [...]
This will be much more than a Brexit election

October 28, 2019

Labour is on the back foot. In recent weeks it has played an entirely defensive game — denying Boris Johnson his preferred EU exit date and further denying him a General Election on his terms. With each of these blocking moves, Labour backs closer into the corner, seemingly devoid of a strategy beyond frustrating a [...]
Wework’s fall back down to Earth was a long time coming

October 25, 2019

Sometimes only a bold and radical move can pull a company out of a hole, and by the standard of Wework, plans don’t get more radical than the ones announced by the company’s new chairman Marcelo Claure. One can almost imagine the gasps as he informed staff that from now on, the business will “prioritise [...]
Treasury watchdog has huge task ahead

October 24, 2019

Westminster isn’t a happy place these days. MPs leave under police escort while protesters from both sides of the Brexit stalemate berate them; conventions in parliament are tested almost to destruction by the Speaker and ministers alike; a domestic legislative agenda exists only on paper; the government cannot govern and the opposition demand an election [...]
Anti-Brexit MPs keep moving the goalposts

October 21, 2019

This was supposed to be the week in which the UK finally staggered out of the Brexit-related darkness and began to consider the future – having spent three and a half years arguing about the past. Boris Johnson, against the odds, renegotiated the Brexit withdrawal agreement and was on the cusp on winning parliamentary approval [...]
Eco-protest movement has driven everyone quite mad

October 17, 2019

The exasperation was clear in the commuter’s voice as he shouted “it’s an electric train, you idiot!” at the person who had glued themselves to a DLR service heading into the City from east London. Elsewhere, morning travellers took matters into their own hands and hauled protesters down from the top of Tube trains. We’ve all [...]
A Brexit deal is within Boris’ reach

October 17, 2019

Over coffee and croissants this morning, EU member states’ ambassadors in Brussels will be briefed on the current state of the Brexit negotiations. Late last night, it seemed the UK and EU were inches away from agreeing the principles of a new deal. French President Emmanuel Macron, Germany’s Angela Merkel, EU Council president Donald Tusk [...]
How Neil Woodford’s star came crashing down to earth

October 16, 2019

He was once known as the most successful stockpicker in the country. He had money, power and influence — all worn without swagger. He favoured jeans over pinstripes and the home counties over the Square Mile. His reputation soared along with the returns he generated at Invesco: 1,688 per cent between the launch of its [...]

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