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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Kanye West’s debt: Pizza Hut offers the rapper a job to relieve his money problems

February 17, 2016

Pizza Hut are keen to help out indebted rapper Kanye West, offering him a job "kneading dough". Yeezey had urged people to buy his album, stressing that creating his dream brought him into debt. Read more: Kanye West versus Mark Zuckerberg's wealth in charts But he needn't fear. Pizza Hut have responded to the distress, telling [...]
What kind of EU referendum voter are you? Research from Lord Ashcroft shows there are seven types of voter

February 17, 2016

As the referendum on the UK's membership of the EU edges closer new research has found that there are seven different kinds of voter. Read more: Poll – Big rise in Brexit support while Scots want to stay in EU Referendum polling by Lord Ashcroft polls found that the seven different kinds lie on a [...]
Corbyn poses a “bigger threat” to the Falklands than Argentina, says defence secretary Michael Fallon on historic trip to the islands

February 17, 2016

On an historic trip to the Falkland Islands, defence secretary Michael Fallon has warned that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn poses a "bigger threat" to the islands than Argentina. Fallon, the first senior cabinet minister to visit the islands in 14 years, said that the islands have moved on since the war in 1982, but that Corbyn hadn't. [...]
Panmure Gordon chairman Ed Warner to leave the stock broker and investment bank

February 17, 2016

Panmure Gordon is going to lose its non-executive chairman after Ed Warner today served notice of his intention to step down at the company's annual general meeting in May. Warner is leaving to "concentrate on his other business interests" and a search for his replacement is already underway. "A further announcement will be made in due [...]
EU referendum: Big rise in those who want to leave the European Union while Scots show more support for staying in than Britain as a whole, new poll finds

February 16, 2016

This week Prime Minister David Cameron hopes to end months of negotiations in which he has had to sell his deal to his European counterparts. But he may find it harder to sell the deal to the UK, a recent poll has found. As the referendum nears a new poll by ComRes has found that just 49 per cent [...]
Why Croydon Tech City’s model is now a “blueprint for the future”

February 16, 2016

Last month, minister for the cabinet office Matthew Hancock visited Croydon Tech City and described it as a “blueprint for the future”. Three years ago, the idea of such a thing being said about a borough famous for the 2011 riots and its unflattering haircuts (“The Croydon facelift”), would have been unimaginable. Now, Croydon is London’s [...]
EU referendum: Grassroots Out to apply for designation as official EU “Leave” campaign

February 16, 2016

Grassroots Out (GO), a cross-party pro-Brexit campaign, has announced that it will be vying to become the officially designated "Leave" campaign ahead of the EU referendum. The organisation will be competing against Vote Leave and Leave.EU for the official spot, to be decided by the Electoral Commission. The group that is chosen by the Electoral Commission as [...]
EU referendum: Martin Schulz cannot guarantee MEPs will agree to UK deal but says European parliament does not have a veto over proposals

February 16, 2016

As Prime Minister David Cameron arrived in Brussels to attempt to woo European counterparts at the last minute, the European parliament president said he cannot guarantee that MEPs will back Britain's deal with the EU council. “To be quite clear, no government can go to a parliament and say: here is our proposal, can you guarantee [...]
US Presidential Election 2016: Sanders is repeating Corbyn’s success by attracting “young idealists and working class left-wingers”

February 16, 2016

Senator Bernie Sanders is closing in on his Democrat rival Hillary Clinton in the US presidential candidate nominations, propelled by a new coalition of young idealists and working class left-wingers – the same people who propelled Jeremy Corbyn to victory, according to new research. Research by YouGov has found the demographic which carried Corbyn to leader of the Labour [...]
US Presidential Election 2016: Former Republican President George Bush joins campaign trail to support his brother Jeb as Donald Trump steps up rhetoric

February 16, 2016

US Republican candidate Jeb Bush has been given a much-needed boost, after his brother George W Bush joined him on the campaign trail in South Carolina. While George W remains a controversial figure around the world, he is extremely popular in South Carolina, where much of the electorate is made up of veterans. George W joined Jeb at a rally [...]

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