By: James Nickerson

I am a reporter at City A.M. looking at the stories, people and data behind political events from the UK, Europe and further afield. I also write about infrastructure and transport, as well as broader issues around global business.

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Tax gap falls to record-low, revealing the failings of Corbynomics, claims secretary to the Treasury David Gauke

October 22, 2015

The UK's tax gap has fallen to an all-time low, prompting Labour's critics to ramp up their arguments against Corbynomics. Figures released today by HMRC reveal the tax gap – the difference between the amount of tax that should be collected against what is actually collected – in 2013/14 fell to a record low of 6.4 per [...]
Chancellor George Osborne gives guarantee of £2bn nuclear power plant deal as China investment announced

October 22, 2015

Chancellor George Osborne has said the UK will guarantee a £2bn deal through which China will invest in the delayed nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point. Announcing the deal while on a five-day tour of China, Osborne said the "essential" plant would go ahead with support from the China General Nuclear Corporation and China National [...]
EU referendum: 1.6m non-UK citizens should be blocked from voting, says MigrationWatch UK

October 22, 2015

A new report is pushing for over 1.5m commonwealth and Irish citizens to be barred from voting in the In/Out referendum on the United Kingdom's membership of the European Union, according to a new report. MigrationWatch UK chairman Lord Green of Deddington said in his report that the UK is the only country in the EU which affords [...]
Christmas day 2015 is looking more and more likely to be a white Christmas as bookies slash their odds

October 22, 2015

Everybody dreams of a white Christmas, don’t they? This year, it’s become far more probable that’s what the UK is going to get. The Met Office says “for most parts of the UK, Christmas is right at the beginning of the period when it’s likely to snow. Looking at climate history, wintry weather is more likely [...]
There is something of a renaissance underway around the British coast. And London needs to watch out.

October 22, 2015

“Coming from London,” a local journalist asked me as I stepped off the train at Scarborough last week, “do you just see us as a back wash of the Yorkshire backwater?” I was too taken aback to even consider an answer, let alone snap back that I was actually brought up in Derby, went to [...]
Lord Nigel Lawson hits out at Bank of England governor Mark Carney’s EU speech

October 22, 2015

Former Conservative chancellor Lord Nigel Lawson has taken issue with governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney's eagerly-awaited European Union speech, which was delivered last night. In an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Lawson said Carney's speech was "regrettable" and that he went above his remit. No other Bank governor would have "waded in" [...]
FTSE 100 ends the day flat as InterContinental Hotels Group leads the pack

October 20, 2015

The UK's top share index traded relatively flat on Tuesday but outperformed other European indexes. The FTSE 100 closed 0.02 per cent up, at 6,353 points, while France's Cac closed 0.50 per cent lower at 4,680 and Germany's Dax finished Tuesday's session 0.01 per cent up at 10,165. However the FTSE 100 is still trading nearly 11 per cent below its [...]
The best reactions to Sajid Javid Vs. John Bercow

October 20, 2015

Business secretary Sajid Javid was earlier schooled by Speaker of the House John Bercow. The remarks by Bercow came after a speech in which Javid was responding to a question from a Labour MP on the steel industry, following the announcement by Tata Steel that they were going to be cutting 1,200 jobs at its plants in [...]
Speaker of the House John Bercow tells business secretary Sajid Javid his statement was “discourteous and incompetent”

October 20, 2015

He may have at one time been a Conservative, but John Bercow's role as Speaker of the House clearly means he's not going to be giving any of his former party's ministers an easy time, after he gave business secretary Sajid Javid a telling off in the Commons today. After a speech in which Javid was responding to a question from [...]
Electoral Commission data: Here’s how much money donors have given to political parties and politicians in 2015

October 20, 2015

The amount of money donated to both political parties and politicians since the General Election has – as you might expect – dropped substantially. But now new data from the Electoral Commission shows that with the London mayoral elections and Labour leadership contest, the amount received by political parties and regulated donees between 8 May [...]

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