Ex-OBR chiefs: Reeves was warned about productivity downgrade November 25, 2025 Chancellor Rachel Reeves was warned about costly productivity downgrades and should have left a bigger fiscal headroom at the Spring Statement, former Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) officials have said. Speaking to City AM, a number of leading economists raised questions around Reeves’ statements suggesting an OBR review of productivity trend forecasts has forced her [...]
What sport wants from the Budget: UK industry leaders share hopes and fears November 24, 2025 Ahead of the Autumn Budget on Wednesday, City AM asked decision-makers from across the UK’s sport sector what they are hoping to hear from Chancellor Rachel Reeves. UK Athletics – Jack Buckner, CEO Major sporting events drive sport. They make us feel good, but they also are profitable. They generate income. It’s challenging putting on [...]
Stricken giant collapses as 650 jobs put at risk November 24, 2025 One of the UK’s largest metals recycling firms has collapsed after efforts to find a buyer for the stricken business failed – with around 650 jobs now at risk. Stratford-upon-Avon-headquartered Unimetals Recycling has filed for compulsory liquidation is now is expected to begin winding down imminently. The company, which operates 28 sites nationwide, is set [...]
LivaNova’s VNS Therapy for Drug-Resistant Epilepsy Procedures Receives Increased Provider Reimbursement from U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services November 24, 2025 – New patient implants assigned to New Technology Ambulatory Payment Classification 1580 – End-of-service procedures elevated to Level 5 APC – Effective Jan. 1, 2026, will improve economics for hospitals performing Medicare procedures and significantly reduces a known barrier to procedure penetration
The FTSE 100’s good year masks a much deeper problem November 24, 2025 The FTSE 100 has had a good year by recent standards. Up nearly 16 per cent, it has outperformed the S&P 500, Nasdaq, Stoxx 600 and Paris’s Cac. What’s more, three new listings in October even suggested that a well-documented dearth of IPOs was coming to an end. But a look below the surface shows [...]
China threat policy questioned amid urgent MI5 warnings November 24, 2025 Despite MI5 sounding its most urgent alarm over Chinese intelligence activity in Westminster yet, the UK government has refused to label China a national security threat. According to new MI5 analysis circulated to MPs last week, Chinese state-linked operatives are running “relentless” influence and information-gathering operations across Whitehall, using LinkedIn to target parliamentary researchers, advisers, and [...]
How to make a ‘smorgasbord’ Budget more appetising for business November 24, 2025 If the Chancellor is incapable of making the bold tax reforms businesses need at the upcoming Budget, there are some smaller measures that would be beneficial, says Louise Hellem At the CBI we are urging the Chancellor to make bold moves on Wednesday and not to subject the economy to death by a thousand taxes. [...]
Nando’s makes cheeky profit after losing more than £600m November 24, 2025 Nando’s has warned Rachel Reeves’ tax hikes will eat into its bottom line despite it returning to profit for the first time since 2016. The business has posted a pre-tax profit of £38.2m for the 12 months to 23 February, 2025, new accounts filed with Companies House have revealed. The profit comes after the restaurant [...]
Frasers Group Selects Navan to Elevate Global Travel and Expense Management November 24, 2025 Navan (NASDAQ: NAVN), the all-in-one travel, payments, and expense management platform, today announced it has been selected by Frasers Group, the retailer behind Sports Direct, FLANNELS, and FRASERS, as the company’s global partner for travel and expense management. In recent years, Frasers Group has gone from strength-to-strength, executing on its Elevation Strategy to rethink retail [...]
Everything we know about Rachel Reeves’ Budget – from mansions to milkshakes November 24, 2025 In the run-up to the mother of all Autumn Budgets to be delivered by Chancellor Rachel Reeves this week, tax rumours have run wild, infecting the minds of businesses and working Brits while adding to the sense of peril that a botched fiscal event could bring. Investors are running scared. Voters fear looming betrayal. Gamblers [...]