By: Maurício Alencar

Politics and Economics Reporter Maurício Alencar is City AM’s Economics and City Reporter. He covers UK economics data ranging from inflation to immigration, as well as the Bank of England, the Treasury, business surveys, and all stories important or interesting to the City of London. He used to cover foreign news and sports at various publications – plus investigations, which he plans to continue to pursue.

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Hedge fund billionaire Chris Rokos joins UK wealth exodus

September 7, 2026

The hedge fund billionaire Chris Rokos has joined the ranks of ultra-wealthy residents in leaving the UK, in a decision likely to cost the government billions of pounds lost tax revenue. Rokos, the founder of his namesake investment firm Rokos Capital Management who paid more than £300m in tax last year alone, is leaving the [...]
Can John Healey deliver the growth the UK needs?

September 7, 2026

The Chancellor John Healey says growth will provide the “pathway out of indebtedness and into prosperity”. But the path is a difficult one to tread, write Mauricio Alencar. When it was announced that John Healey would be delivering a speech in Coventry, it was assumed that he would be visiting Jaguar Land Rovers’s headquarters with [...]
Healey says growth is ‘pathway out of debt’ but bats away tax questions

September 7, 2026

Chancellor John Healey said he will “not speculate” on expected tax rises at his maiden Budget next month as he said growth was at the “heart of fiscal challenges” facing the UK. In his first major speech as Chancellor in Coventry, Healey batted away questions about whether businesses and households were set to face another [...]
British Airways travellers hit as 3,000 luggage items stuck in Heathrow

September 5, 2026

British Airways travellers have arrived at holiday destinations without their luggage as a “technical issue” stopped up to 3,000 luggage items being loaded onto planes at Heathrow Airport. A technical issue with baggage systems at Heathrow Terminal 5, the main hub for British Airways flights, on Thursday has left hundreds of holidaymakers without their bags [...]
Has Reform managed to win over the City?

September 5, 2026

Reform UK officials hope that its first-ever Business Day paid dividends at its conference. Maurício Alencar reports on a dramatic 72 hours in Birmingham and asks whether industry chiefs are satisfied with what they’ve heard and seen. Asked for an umbrella phrase to describe Reform’s economic philosophy, policy guru Dr James Orr responded that the [...]
Jenrick pledges to raise tax-free personal allowance to £15,000

September 5, 2026

Robert Jenrick has pledged to raise the tax-free personal allowance from £12,570 to £15,000 in his first budget as Chancellor if Reform UK is elected into government. In a speech on Saturday, Jenrick will say that the £21bn tax cut would show the party’s mission to “choose the worker”. He will add that Reform would [...]
Farage: Foreign donations row is ‘loose pub talk’

September 4, 2026

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has shrugged off concerns over comments made by senior party figures on accepting foreign donations via middle men, describing their behaviour as “loose pub talk”. Reform has faced a gruelling 24 hours after a Channel 4 investigation filmed Farage’s chief of staff Dan Jukes and Reform’s head of policy Dr [...]
Inflation expectations softer than predicted ahead of interest rate decision

September 4, 2026

Firms intend to raise prices over the next year on average at a lower rate than many economists have expected, Bank of England research has shown, easing concerns that the UK economy is heading for a deeper cost of living crisis. The Decision Makers’ Panel, a Bank survey of how far firms plan to raise [...]
Farage vows to call ‘national emergency’ on day one

September 3, 2026

Nigel Farage would call a “national emergency” to highlight the country’s woes after successive Tory and Labour governments. Under plans proposed by a Reform government, Farage would make MPs sit in parliament seven days a week to pass bills written by the government, including through the summer. At a speech on Friday at the Reform [...]
Jenrick refuses to rule out bank tax

September 3, 2026

Reform UK’s Treasury spokesman refused to rule out a banking tax mooted by the party’s leader Nigel Farage, who said he would hit lenders because he didn’t “like” them. Speaking at a Reform conference event organised by City industry representatives, Jenrick said the party had not committed to banking taxes. However, the party’s economic chief [...]

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