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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Panorama revealed a Labour party that’s rotten to the core

July 12, 2019

The Labour party has declared war on the BBC. In response to (in fact, ahead of) Wednesday night’s Panorama film about the party’s handling of antisemitism within its ranks, a concerted campaign was whipped up online to discredit the journalist at the helm, John Ware. How times change. Back in 2002 a group of MPs [...]
Deutsche Bank: saved in the nick of time?

July 11, 2019

Will this be seen as the week when the Deutsche Bank supertanker started to turn, or began to list? The scale of the restructuring announced by chief executive Christian Sewing was certainly dramatic, but it left many in the City asking why the bank had waited so long before attempting to change course. Traders in the [...]
Labour should be riding high, instead they’re drowning in scandal and incompetence

July 9, 2019

With the Tory party engaged in a civil war (albeit one tempered by the Queensbury Rules) a competent opposition could expect to spend the summer shoring up a lead in the polls and presenting itself as a government in waiting. Unfortunately for the Labour party, competence eludes them. Yesterday, Jeremy Corbyn was finally forced off [...]
Hunt is right to take a firm line on China

July 5, 2019

Jeremy Hunt has been talking tough on China. Is this because he’s the foreign secretary or because he’s in the fight of his life to become Prime Minister? In a way, it doesn’t matter. What matters is that the UK stands up to China on a matter of law. The two countries signed the Joint [...]
Lagarde’s ECB job is a victory for Macron and a chance for Osborne

July 5, 2019

The chatter in Paris is that Emmanuel Macron has played a blinder. On Monday night he was raging to the media about the shoddy state of EU decision making, but by Wednesday evening he was patting himself on the back. Macron pushed Ursula von der Leyen as a compromise candidate for Commission president, simultaneously helping [...]
Should 160,000 Tories choose our next Prime Minister? Yes, actually

June 28, 2019

Discussing the Tory leadership election on Sky News earlier this week, host Adam Boulton asked me why the party members seemed so relaxed about Boris Johnson’s controversial private life. “Isn’t this the party of family values?” Boulton asked. It’s a fair point. Three quarters of the party’s 160,000 members believe that “young people today don’t [...]
Attracting talent from India is crucial for UK success

June 24, 2019

Three years ago today, as the country absorbed the result of the EU referendum, few people were talking about the intricacies of trade policy, the complexity of bilateral negotiations or the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Three years on, and while the country appears no closer to a negotiated exit than it was 1,000 [...]
There’s a first time for everything… including marrying your friends

June 21, 2019

Over the years I’ve ticked off most of the public speaking formats. I’ve enjoyed after dinner speeches, panel discussions, debates and events of all sizes. Last week, I ticked off another category of performance by conducting my friends’ wedding. The only other time I’d been as surprised at a suggestion was when the proprietors of [...]
The leadership race has reignited the party’s capitalist spirit

June 17, 2019

The man most likely to be the next Prime Minister will this morning sit down with 25 leading City figures in a bid to mend relations with the business community. Boris Johnson reportedly said “f**k business” when confronted with industry groups’ concerns over Brexit last year. The remarks have hung around his neck ever since [...]
Editor’s Notes: Davos – a festival of irrelevance and hypocrisy

January 25, 2019

Davos brings the same delights every year. From the press release about the number of private jet movements to Oxfam’s annual criticism of the global super-rich, there are predictable elements to this week-long event. Another thing you can always be assured of is that some staggering hypocrisy will be on display. I came across a [...]

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