Meet Liz Truss top team: Zooming in on UK’s new business secretary, Brexiteer City investor Jacob Rees-Mogg September 7, 2022 Following yesterday’s Cabinet reshuffle, City A.M. introduces you to some of Liz Truss’s key ministers. Who are they? What has their journey been so far? Check out the new Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, the new Home Secretary Suella Braverman and the new Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly. As the country heads towards a lengthy period of recession, [...]
Meet Liz Truss top team: Who is the UK’s new Home Secretary, Brexit barrister Suella Braverman? September 7, 2022 Following yesterday’s Cabinet reshuffle, City A.M. introduces you to some of Liz Truss’s key government ministers. Who are they? What has their journey been so far? Also check out the new Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng and and the UK’s new Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly as well as the new Business Secretary, Jacob Rees-Mogg. A barrister who [...]
M restaurant founder Martin Williams on his new Canary Wharf venue September 6, 2022 Sitting in the new M restaurant in Canary Wharf, a few days before it officially opens today, is a slightly surreal experience. Overlooking the river in the new, diamond-shaped Newfoundland Quay tower, a row of people in wetsuits are doing laps around the docks below us. As they approach the restaurant they glide past a [...]
EXCLUSIVE: New PM Liz Truss will protect ‘crown jewel’ City of London September 6, 2022 Liz Truss will “empower the City to drive economic growth” through tax cuts and regulatory reform as Prime Minister, she exclusively told City A.M.. The newly-appointed Conservative leader said, who will be appointed formally by Her Majesty the Queen at Balmoral today, she wanted to maintain the Square Mile’s competitive edge and “supercharge growth and [...]
Goodbye Boris Johnson: Final speech as Prime Minister in full September 6, 2022 The Prime Minister said goodbye for the last time this morning at 7.30am. Here is Boris Johnson’s leaving speech in full: “Thank you. Well, this is it, folks. Thank you everybody for coming out so early this morning. In only a couple of hours I will be in Balmoral to see Her Majesty the Queen [...]
Boris Johnson’s farewell speech at Number 10 gives unity call: ‘It’s time for politics to be over’ September 6, 2022 Outgoing prime minister Boris Johnson’s farewell speech offered a unity call to his successor Liz Truss’s government, saying it’s “time for politics to be over” and for the party to stop infighting. In a brief early-morning address to a packed crowd outside the famous black door of Number 10, Boris Johnson said the torch had [...]
In memoriam of Boris Johnson’s premiership September 6, 2022 He’s been the poster boy for Brexit, the flag bearer for Levelling Up, and then the party boy of Downing Street who was eventually brought down by a sex scandal not involving him.
Liz Truss is new PM: Johnson loyalists Patel, Dories and Tory co-chair quit September 5, 2022 Three senior Conservative and Boris Johnson loyalists quit their roles ahead of Liz Truss being sworn in as prime minister. Priti Patel, the Home Secretary, Nadine Dorries, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and Ben Elliott, the Johnson-appointed co-chair of the Party, announced they quit their roles. Patel took to Twitter [...]
Truss urged by City to keep bank tax cut to boost competitiveness September 5, 2022 Liz Truss has been urged by City figures to slash taxes on banks amid speculation the incoming Prime Minister could lighten the tax burden for UK firms. Ex-chancellor Rishi Sunak last year announced a cut in the UK bank surcharge on profits from 8 to 3 per cent to offset the effect of a planned [...]
‘Brexit’s biggest rewards’: New data bill makes way through parliament September 5, 2022 New data reforms, which digital secretary Nadine Dorries reckons will be “one of Brexit’s biggest rewards”, is set to be debated in parliament today. Under the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, firms will be given the flexibility to protect personal data in more proportionate ways rather than forcing them to follow the same processes [...]