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  • The Danish retailer plotting to outsmart ‘unsentimental’ Modella Capital

    Retail

    On the modern-day British high street, a Scandinavian shop featuring maze-like aisles, quirky homeware and bags of licorice near the till is not quite a reinvention of the wheel.  But Mikkel Grene, chief executive of Danish homeware retailer Søstrene Grene, believes his business can go toe-to-toe with Ikea and Flying Tiger for pride of place [...]

    Man in suit seated in a Sostrene Grene store, surrounded by homeware and gift items.
  • Budget 2026: Which taxes will Burnham and Healey hike?

    Tax

    With interest rates on course to remain elevated and a new government keen to win over sceptical voters with cost-of-living measures, economists think tax rises at October’s Budget are all but guaranteed. But where will the new Chancellor look for revenue? Ali Lyon and Mauricio Alencar examine the most likely revenue raisers. Speak to any [...]

    Andy Burnham, John Healey, and Louise Haigh by a doorway, discussing tax policy for a news article.
  • Burnham accused of ‘piecemeal’ business rates reform

    Hospitality

    Andy Burnham has been accused of taking a “piecemeal” approach to business rates instead of committing to Labour’s manifesto pledge to replace the tax system.  The government has launched a review into how business rates bills are calculated for pubs and hotels, but industry bodies have urged the Prime Minister to commit to wholesale reform [...]

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  • Treasury launches business rates review for pubs and hotels

    August 24, 2026

    The Treasury has launched a review into how business rates are calculated for pubs and hotels in the government’s latest bid to boost businesses operating in town centres. Launched on Monday, the government said the review will “look at improving fairness for businesses” and will aim “to ensure the system is fair and transparent, and [...]

  • New planning rules ‘could blight high streets with empty pubs’

    August 18, 2026

    Angela Rayner’s attempt to stop pubs being redeveloped into offices and housing could “blight high streets” with empty venues, property experts have warned.  The housing secretary has unveiled reforms to planning rules which mean that developers can only turn a pub into housing or an office if there is no reasonable prospect that it can [...]

  • Domestic policies are choking UK businesses

    August 18, 2026

    The last decade of domestic policy decisions has created a towering cost stack that is choking business growth, writes Shevaun Haviland.

  • The UK’s cost stack is choking business growth

    August 18, 2026

    Much of the UK has faced a summer of sweltering temperatures as the country hasbounced from one unrelenting heatwave to another. Businesses know all too well that unrelenting feeling. A decade of constant cost pressures from domestic policy decisions has been hugely damaging. It’s a cost stack is chocking business growth. Before a pound of [...]

  • Back bookshops in bid to rebuild high streets, Burnham urged

    August 16, 2026

    Leading authors have called on Andy Burnham to roll out emergency support to the UK’s small bookshops as part of his pledge to save Britain’s high streets.  The bestselling writers, along with 200 booksellers, have written to the Prime Minister, urging him to set out a business rates relief package for bookshops as they contend [...]

  • Andy Burnham to ‘go further’ in business rates reform

    August 12, 2026

    Andy Burnham said he would “go further” in introducing business rates reform after already announcing that property taxes would be cut for pubs in return for higher levies on vape shops.  The Prime Minister said he will look to bring in more radical changes to the business rates system as part of efforts to ease [...]

  • Richard Branson says UK must ‘make it easier’ to be an entrepreneur

    August 11, 2026

    Sir Richard Branson has called on policy makers to do more to support and “champion” British entrepreneurs. The founder of Virgin Group, who launched his iconic business selling records in 1970, said the UK must go further to create an environment where entrepreneurs want to set up and run a business. Writing in City AM, [...]

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