Richard Branson’s right hand man: Mastering rail is ‘harder than space’ June 8, 2022 Mastering rail is “harder than space”, according to one space veteran, formerly Richard Branson’s right-hand man in the making of Virgin Galactic and Virgin Orbit. As Britain prepares to launch satellites from its own soil for the first time this summer, unions are set to bring the country’s rail network to a standstill in later this month. Speaking on [...]
Minister: UK ready to press ahead with unilateral change to NI Protocol June 8, 2022 The UK is ready to push ahead with its move to unilaterally change the post-Brexit Northern Ireland Protocol, according to Northern Ireland minister Conor Burns. Burns said the UK’s “simple” solution would be brought to parliament very soon, unless the EU can come up with a renewed political mandate for its negotiators. Irish PM Micheál [...]
Wizz Air posts wider losses as it battles fuel prices and disruption June 8, 2022 Wizz Air Group's recovery journey has finally left the runway, with rising passenger numbers driving optimism at the company.
To seed a food secure future for our nation we need technology on our side June 8, 2022 An oven-ready roast chicken in your local supermarket will probably cost you more than it did last month. As will eggs, pasta and bread. And they’re likely to cost you even more next month, as world food prices hit an all-time high. The crisis in Ukraine has had a domino effect, but food prices have [...]
ESG is moving to the heart of property portfolios June 7, 2022 The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the need to transform the spaces where we live, work and socialise. And it’s clear that commercial and residential developers and those working in property finance are becoming keenly focused on sustainability and affordability. Whilst environmental, social and governance (ESG) certainly isn’t new, its principles are vital and it’s imperative [...]
To turf Boris Johnson out, Keir Starmer needs to rebrand his Labour Party June 7, 2022 It must have hurt, not just being booed by those liberal lefty lawyers who turned up to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, but being compared to Jeremy Corbyn – the very same man that Boris Johnson squashed into political oblivion in 2019. This is not the historical alignment with Winston Churchill he has worked all [...]
Chancerygate to plot £32m new industrial site near London June 6, 2022 One of the UK’s largest industrial developers Chancerygate has lined up a string of sites in Leatherhead for a £32m development, as the logistics sector looks set to become the country’s largest employer. A raft of property firms, including British Land, LondonMetric and BMO Commercial Property Trust have turned their focus to logistics real estate [...]
Boris Johnson: What is a Tory no confidence vote, how does it work and why is it happening? June 6, 2022 Boris Johnson will face a vote of no confidence in his leadership of the Conservative party at 6pm today, after 54 or more MPs declared they no longer had confidence in the Prime Minister. City A.M. takes a look at what the vote is, why it was triggered and what might happen next. What is [...]
Our auto industry must let go of nostalgia even as it revives DeLorean June 6, 2022 Last week, we were bombarded with fond memories and childhood nostalgia as the famed DeLorean car make was revived. A new model, trading on those most powerful of marketing tools, will be released. Former Tesla executive Joost de Vries has bought the rights to the famous name and set up the gullwing-doored Alpha5 as a [...]
The tonic for Boris Johnson’s ailing leadership may well be boring politics, not Churchillian June 3, 2022 Boris Johnson’s Churchillian love affair is well documented. But facing increasing pressure over his future, the Prime Minister must resist his idol’s playbook for how to govern. When penning a biography of Britain’s wartime hero in 2014, the canny PM knew this would draw instant comparisons between him and the man voted the “greatest Briton”. [...]