The City View: Netflix stock plummets, and Interactive Investor’s Richard Hunter on “easy money” decade, strong UK markets April 20, 2022 Today Andy Silvester talks to Richard Hunter, Head of Markets at Interactive Investor. They go through strong UK market performance; US indices — Netflix woes, and the NASDAQ’s near 13% dip this year; and the “easy money” economy this past decade, and how going forward young traders might be seeing lower returns on their investments [...]
FCA names interim digital asset lead amid crypto push April 20, 2022 The UK's financial regulator has selected Victoria McLoughlin as interim head of a new unit focussing on digital assets.
Balancing the budget won’t win voters hooked on Sunak’s years of spending April 20, 2022 On a balmy September day eight years ago, Ed Miliband strode onto the stage at Labour Party Conference and proceeded to deliver a marathon 66-minute speech without notes. Unfortunately for the then Labour leader, he managed to forget a key chunk of his prepared remarks – the bit about tackling the deficit. Cue glee from [...]
Energy chiefs urge government to offer more support to households April 19, 2022 Chief executives at some of the country's biggest energy firms have called on the government to provide
Johnson: It ‘did not occur to me’ Downing Street birthday party was Covid breach April 19, 2022 Boris Johnson has told MPs that it “did not occur to me” that his Number 10 office birthday party was in breach of Covid rules, after receiving a police fine last week for attending the event. The Prime Minister today said “that was my mistake and I apologise for it unreservedly”, but that he now [...]
Government considers scrapping green levies as households face spiralling energy bills April 19, 2022 The government could scrap a green levy which adds £153 to the average energy bill to ease the cost of living crisis facing households.
Partygate: Senior Tory says local elections may determine Boris Johnson’s future, ahead of ‘full-throated apology’ April 19, 2022 A possible Tory rebellion against Boris Johnson over partygate would likely happen after local elections, a senior Tory MP said. The treasurer of the powerful Conservative backbench 1922 Committee, Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, made his comments as the PM faces new charges about his role in the lockdown breaches, for which he and Rishi Sunak were [...]
Easter Reads part two: the best in our opinion pages on politics, the economy and Ukraine April 18, 2022 The much debated Online Safety Bill was introduced on March 17. It means US tech giants finally have a set of standards to adhere to, to safeguard online communities. The piece of legislation, however, is a behemoth bill of confusion, writes Leah Montebello. It’s not clear yet what content counts as “harmful”, and who should [...]
Zelensky urges US counterpart Biden to visit Ukrainian capital April 18, 2022 President Zelensky has urged his US counterpart Joe Biden to visit Ukraine to see how war has hit Kyiv on the ground. The White House is reportedly mulling the decision to send over a senior official to the Ukrainian capital, with defence secretary Lloyd Austin and secretary of state Anthony Blinked thought to be frontrunners. [...]
Fresh partygate claims emerge following PM fine April 17, 2022 Labour claim Boris Johnson "deliberately misled the British people at every turn" following fresh allegations about lockdown parties.