Explained: What changes to transfer and loan rules mean for Premier League clubs June 26, 2023 Big clubs such as Chelsea and Manchester City are unlikely to return to hoarding top talent and farming them out on loan despite the relaxation of post-Brexit transfer red tape. Chelsea turned recruiting promising players, loaning them out and ultimately selling for a profit into a fine art in the later years of Roman Abramovich’s [...]
The Notebook: Sir Rocco Forte on the hated tourist tax, counteracting climate hysteria and Boris Johnson’s legacy June 26, 2023 The Notebook is a column where interesting people say interesting things. Today, it’s hotel industry giant Sir Rocco Forte, chairman of Rocco Forte Hotels My hotels in Italy, Germany and Belgium are booming. But occupancy in London is not what it was last year nor what we saw pre-pandemic. Official statistics bear this out, showing [...]
Brexit Day: Sadiq Khan ‘effectively banned’ from flying EU flag at City Hall June 23, 2023 London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been been “effectively banned” from flying the EU flag at City Hall on the seventh anniversary of the Brexit referendum. The European Union flag, which features 12 gold stars on a blue background, was removed from a list of exemptions which do not require planning permission before being flown. A [...]
Ex Asda boss: Cutting prices for cash-strapped Brits is ‘very important’ after Sunuk plea June 23, 2023 Supermarkets regard cutting prices as “very important”, according to a former boss of Asda, after the Prime Minister warned retailers about pricing “responsibly and fairly”. Andy Clarke, who served as Asda’s chief executive officer between 2010 and 2016, said the big chains were “heavily focused” on competitive pricing as the industry hit back over suggestions [...]
Brexit: Most people think UK was wrong to leave EU, according to Tony Blair Institute June 23, 2023 More than 50 per cent of people believe that the UK was wrong to leave the EU seven years on from the referendum, according to a new poll. Based on a survey of 1,525 adults and carried out at the start of June, the poll found that 34 per cent still believe that Brexit was [...]
The Isle of Man and the City of London are linked by a shared financial future June 23, 2023 It might look like the Isle of Man and the City of London have nothing in common, but mutual financial cooperation is actually the way forward so that the whole country can benefit, writes Michael Crowe
Tour operator Skiworld wipes out in Austria amid post-Brexit dip in UK chalet hosts June 22, 2023 Skiworld – the UK’s largest independent ski tour operator – has pulled out of much of its operation in Austria as a result of post-Brexit red tape, City A.M. has learnt. The London-based firm – which runs chalets across the Alps – told City A.M. that a dip in the number of UK staff it [...]
Covid-19 inquiry: Flu-based pandemic prep meant herd immunity was seen as ‘inevitable’, says Hunt June 21, 2023 Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has said the focus on any future pandemic being flu-based meant there was a “shared assumption herd immunity was inevitably” going to be the strategy used to contain a new virus. He admitted being part of “groupthink” when he was health secretary, leading to a “narrowness of thinking” that failed to expand [...]
UK debt pile tops size of entire economy for first time since 1960s June 21, 2023 Britain’s debt stock has swelled to larger than the size of its economy for the first time since March 1961, pushed higher by the government helping families with their energy bills, new numbers out today show. The UK’s over £2.5 trillion debt pile represents 100.1 per cent of the value of its gross domestic product, [...]
Barriers to business require urgent action from government June 21, 2023 Per the business secretary, Britain’s trade problem is that we don’t think we can. Apparently our ‘sardonic’ sense of humour holds us back from sailing the seven seas like mercantile Brits of old. Even by the standards of recent years, it’s an absurd statement. It sums up a wider dereliction of duty in Westminster towards [...]