By: Fonie Mitsopoulou

Political Reporter Fonie Mitsopoulou is the political reporter at City AM. Previously, Fonie was an energy and climate reporter at POLITICO. Before becoming a journalist, Fonie worked on developing policy at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, and was an editorial assistant at Penguin Press. Fonie grew up in Greece, before studying History and Politics at the University of Oxford, and then going on to learn some Arabic in Cairo. She speaks Greek, French, and some Arabic and Spanish.

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Reeves won’t rule out extending income tax threshold freeze

June 4, 2025

Rachel Reeves has vowed not to repeat the scale of tax rises in last year’s Autumn Budget as businesses brace for further hikes to meet the chancellor’s wafer-thin fiscal headroom. As much as £40bn in tax rises was unveiled in the budget, including huge hikes to employer National Insurance Contributions, which added millions of pounds [...]
Majority of Labour MPs oppose Reeves’ fiscal rules

June 2, 2025

Two thirds of Labour MPs oppose Rachel Reeves’ fiscal rules, and twenty percent would prefer tax rises over spending cuts. Polling by Survation, shared with The Times, showed that 64 per cent of Labour MPs said Reeves’ rules inhibit ministers’ abilities to meet their objectives, including: raising living standards, improving public services, and combatting climate [...]
Starmer refuses to commit 3 per cent defence spending despite ‘battle-ready’ claim

June 2, 2025

Keir Starmer has been criticised for failing to commit to increasing defence spending to 3 per cent of GDP. The Prime Minister vowed to put in place the “largest sustained increase in defence spending since the Cold War,” with a 2.5 per cent share of GDP going to defence. However, the PM maintained that hitting [...]
Reform’s new crypto plan: politics ‘the driving force’

June 1, 2025

While Reform UK leader Nigel Farage was busy wooing the Bitcoin aficionados in Sin City, Las Vegas, party chairman Zia Yusuf faced the much less glamorous task of selling the UK media their new crypto plan. “This is not about turning the UK into some alt-coin scammers paradise,” Yusuf said. This follows the Reform party’s [...]
Spending review: Government poised to boost NHS and defence sector

June 1, 2025

The government’s spending review is likely to focus on the UK’s health and defence sectors, a report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) suggests. The spending review, which will be published on 11 June, will allocate departmental funding and budgets for the next three to four years. It has been the subject of speculation [...]
UK-Gulf states trade deal on the horizon

May 30, 2025

The UK is poised to sign a trade agreement with the Gulf states, including Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The deal with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is expected to be worth as much as £1.6bn, with hopes that the value will rise by an additional £8.6bn a year [...]
Civil service cull can save £5bn a year

May 30, 2025

Civil service cull can save £5bn a year, Policy Exchange says Cutting 80,000 civil service jobs could save the Treasury as much as £5bn pounds a year, a new report has found, as the government seeks to rein in spending in a bid to stick to its fiscal rules. The research by Westminster think tank [...]
50,000 civil service jobs could be cut in Labour spending review

May 29, 2025

Civil servants are facing another round of job cuts, with as many as 50,000 civil service jobs on the line in the government’s upcoming spending review. According to reports, ten per cent of civil servants, who number 500,000 in total, will be culled. The civil service swelled after Brexit and the pandemic, with 130,000 added [...]
Transport vigilante Jenrick takes on TfL fare dodgers

May 29, 2025

Tory MP Rob Jenrick is amping up his public presence amid growing expectations he could displace an unpopular Kemi Badenoch as leader of the Conservatives. Jenrick has launched a transport vigilante campaign where he questions TfL fare dodgers on the London underground. London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s office did not respond to Jenrick’s diatribe. Ex-Reform MP [...]
Keir Starmer hits back at Reform’s ‘fantasy’ economic policies

May 29, 2025

Keir Starmer has hit back at Nigel Farage’s “fantasy economics,” after the Reform leader laid out a suite of fresh policies aimed at attracting voters away from Labour. In a speech to workers in the North West later today Starmer plans make the case against Farage’s economic credibility, likening the proposals to the Liz Truss [...]

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