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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Party leaders bid to charm top bosses at CBI bash

November 19, 2019

The election campaign intruded on the CBI’s annual conference yesterday, making the event even more political and even less about business than it otherwise would have been. That said, the topics slotted into the agenda around the political speeches focused mostly on climate change, inequality, profit with purpose (Justin Welby was on stage for that) [...]
The City is wise to wince at McDonnell’s statism

November 18, 2019

This newspaper has, in the past, given credit to John McDonnell for his honesty and for his openness with the City. We may not have welcomed his ideas, but we’ve often acknowledged that he has at least been upfront about his plans for government and has ventured into City boardrooms to explain his thinking more [...]
Did the BBC conspire to make Boris look better on TV? No.

November 15, 2019

During my Masters degree in journalism I spent some time working for the BBC’s Daily Politics, now known as Politics Live. The show was produced and broadcast from the BBC’s Westminster studios in Millbank, and every day it was all hands on deck as a team of editors, producers, guest-bookers, script writers, presenters and technical [...]
Lagarde’s challenges start close to home

November 15, 2019

When things get heated at work it’s only a matter of time before someone proposes an “off site.” Getting away from the office and taking in new surroundings can work wonders for morale and facilitate fresh thinking. It was in this spirit that the new head of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde, whisked [...]
Tories deserve to win the economic battle

November 14, 2019

The Conservatives have taken a fair bit of stick for their claim that “the cost of Corbyn” would come in at £1.2 trillion. Independent fact-checkers have dismissed the methodology and pointed out that it’s difficult for the Tories to cost Labour’s manifesto commitments when the manifesto hasn’t been published. Still, the £1.2 trillion figure isn’t [...]
Tories must shake up their campaign to pull the votes in

November 7, 2019

Having allowed the other parties a few days to warm up, the Conservatives last night officially joined the fray as Boris Johnson launched the Tory election campaign at a rally of the party faithful in Birmingham. He was on vintage form, likening our blocked parliament to an anaconda struggling to digest a tapir and lambasting [...]
Chinese interference has no place in the City

November 6, 2019

On Monday night MPs elected from among themselves a new Speaker of the House of Commons. Labour’s Lindsay Hoyle prevailed, but all candidates spoke about the vital importance and sanctity of our democratic system of government. That democracy will now burst into life in the form of a General Election campaign which formally gets underway [...]
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 [...]

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