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Autumn Statement: 110 measures for growth and an election speech from Hunt

LONDON, ENGLAND – NOVEMBER 22: Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt leaves number 11 Downing Street on November 22, 2023 in London, England....

22.11.2023 4

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Analysis: Braverman is gone and Cameron is back as the moderates take back control

Suella Braverman is gone, and the 2010s are back. David Cameron, the former prime minister, who has found little favour since leaving office, has been...

13.11.2023 20

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King’s Speech: Compromise and deliverables for a target-driven Sunak

Yesterday was the first time Britain had a King’s Speech in 70 years. This fact may have been the only novelty about the agenda for the next session...

07.11.2023 10

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PMQs Analysis: Keir Starmer’s bid for a general election sooner rather than later

A year in office, a year to the next election, that was the message from Rishi Sunak’s promo video released this morning, which only those who can...

25.10.2023 3

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Sunak and Hunt may be a tired act but the Tories are quietly confident

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND – OCTOBER 3: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak looks at an exhibit as he tours the Exhibitor’s Hall on Day 3 of the...

04.10.2023 5

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Sunak and Hunt may be a tired act but the Tories quietly confident

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND – OCTOBER 3: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak looks at an exhibit as he tours the Exhibitor’s Hall on Day 3 of the...

04.10.2023 2

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Explainer: Does it matter if Sunak waters down green targets?

Rishi Sunak has pushed back the target to phase out new petrol and diesel cars to 2035. This morning Rishi Sunak broke ranks from the last few...

20.09.2023 5

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Analysis: Sunak’s China challenge

In April 2020, senior Conservative MPs launched a policy group, the China Research Group, to cast a sceptical eye over Sino-British relations.  The...

11.09.2023 5

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PMQs sketch: Raac city, b*tch

If there was ever an evocative symbol of so-called Broken Britain, it is the image of school children turning up on the first day of term to a...

06.09.2023 5

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Explainer: Britain opens up diplomatic dialogue with China

Britain Foreign Secretary James Cleverly will visit China this week. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) It’s the first time in five years a UK...

29.08.2023 5

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Explainer: when online fads take a dark turn, from planking to TikTok

TikTok has been blamed for starting ‘flash mobs’. It’s the call you dread to hear: your kids have been in a stunt that has gone wrong. But now...

15.08.2023 7

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A gallery of one’s own: challenging the sexism and racism of the art world

Isabella Rothman and Sophie Merrell founded Wondering People It is an unusual thing to do these days, announce a child’s birth in the newspaper....

09.08.2023 4

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Explainer: Does it matter if Rishi Sunak goes to the UN?

Rishi Sunak has been insisting he’ll deliver on his five pledges before the end of the year. (Photo Frank Augstein – WPA Pool/Getty Images) Rishi...

04.08.2023 2

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Explainer: The real competition to Zuckerberg’s Threads

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg launched Threads earlier this month.(Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) The ongoing feud between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon...

27.07.2023 3

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Welcome to the Great Green Delay, and Khan’s Ulez expansion is the first victim

Protesters opposed to the expansion of London’s Ultra Low Emissions Zone demonstrate outside BBC Broadcasting House. (Photo by Chris J...

26.07.2023 8

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Coutts Farage decision is a blunder but it’s none of Sunak’s business

Elite bank Coutts has recently terminated the account of former Brexit Party and UKIP Leader Nigel Farage. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) There...

20.07.2023 3

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Explainer: Barbie vs Oppenheimer

This could be you…. if you rent Sixt’s new Barbiecore-inspired Mini Convertible This week, there has been a fierce fight between two warring...

18.07.2023 2

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Analysis: A crackdown on university degrees

LONDON, ENGLAND – JULY 15: Students and family pose for photographs ahead of their graduation ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall on July 15, 2014...

17.07.2023 8

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Explainer: A ‘rock solid’ US-UK relationship

Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak bids farewell to US President Joe Biden on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street following a bi-lateral meeting on...

10.07.2023 2

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Spreadsheet Sunak won’t win an election if he can’t meet his own scorecards

From stopping the boats to driving down inflation and cutting NHS waiting lists, Sunak has failed to meet his own targets and voters won’t keep...

06.07.2023 9

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We need $100trn to hit our climate change commitments – in just six years time

We have six years to find £100tn to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees and prevent further climate change, but we won’t do it without India and...

03.07.2023 4

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Let’s be honest, ESG investing will actually hurt the environment

When companies with poor environmental credentials are starved of capital, they become dirtier to avoid bankruptcy, writes Matthew Lesh

29.06.2023 10

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PMQs Sketch: Starmer and Sunak on everyone’s last nerve

While Thames Water was on the verge of collapse, Sunak and Starmer spent PMQs drawling on about housing targets.

28.06.2023 2

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Teasing supermarket execs won’t stop inflation, it’s suppliers we need to grill

Supermarket bosses are an easy shot, but its suppliers making profits which would dwarf those of Tesco or Sainsbury's.

28.06.2023 6

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We used to overlook tourism in the City, now it must become the key to its recovery

Can we make the City more than just the business district of London?

26.06.2023 6

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Doling out more debt to developing countries won’t help without giving them a global voice

Can we stop burying countries at risk of climate change in more debt?

23.06.2023 10

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PMQs sketch: Nothing’s funny about the economy, stupid

Of course Rishi Sunak can’t bail out mortgage holders, but he doesn’t want to hear about it.

21.06.2023 2

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We can’t base artificial intelligence laws off of the risks we only imagine to be real

We’ve heard endless calls to ‘do something’ on artificial intelligence, but politicians are still basing their thinking on the risks they assume...

21.06.2023 4

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I’d love to be an MP, but Britain is still too ashamed of open political ambition

When I was asked if I wanted to be an MP, I fudged an answer because I knew it would be met with scepticism . But our stifled laughs mean we're stuck...

20.06.2023 10

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Fighting for low tax rates is so 2010, now the game is in offering the best incentives

Gone are the days when countries jostled for the lowest tax rate to attract investment, now companies are looking for the best packages of incentives,...

20.06.2023 10

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Vodafone’s merger with Three is an open and shut case of a monopolistic power

A merger between Vodafone and Three, two of the biggest telecoms companies in the UK will drive up prices for consumers and kill competition, writes...

19.06.2023 4

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Vodafone’s merger with Three is an open and shut case of a monopoly

A merger between Vodafone and Three, two of the biggest telecoms companies in the UK will drive up prices for consumers and kill competition, writes...

19.06.2023 8

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Britain’s music industry be crushed by artificial intelligence if we don’t get it right

Rishi Sunak called the creative industries one of the key growth sectors for the UK, but how we deal with artificial intelligence will be a game...

16.06.2023 3

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Let’s be honest, even after Brexit we’re still adding more red tape

For more than a decade, Conservative Prime Ministers have promised to scrap bureaucracy and red tape and yet even after Brexit they’ve done exactly...

15.06.2023 4

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Bailey holds the torch for a proud UK tradition – failing our monetary policy

Andrew Bailey and the economists at the Bank of England are part of a long line of people who have failed Britain’s monetary policy, writes Will...

15.06.2023 6

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Let’s be honest, Brexit only added more bureaucracy and red tape for businesses

For more than a decade, Conservative Prime Ministers have promised to scrap bureaucracy and red tape and yet even after Brexit they’ve done exactly...

15.06.2023 5

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Police Scotland wants to teach the Met a lesson in understanding its racist cops

The outgoing boss of the Police Scotland has labelled the force ‘institutionally racist’, but the Met police won’t admit the same failing,...

30.05.2023 8

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Scrap the tourist tax hurting our hospitality businesses or lose out to Paris and Madrid

Tourism is incredibly important for London, but to keep London important for tourism, we have to make it more attractive for foreign visitors to shop...

30.05.2023 10

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If we want to cut immigration, we have to be honest about the trade-offs

From our universities, to our health service and the productivity of our economy, cutting immigration would change the structure of all of these and...

26.05.2023 5

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Extending ULEZ is making criminals out of the leftie middle-class

I’m as middle-class and suburban as it gets in London, but locals are planning a rebellion against ULEZ. The post Extending ULEZ is making criminals...

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PMQs sketch: Keir Starmer, future fruit picker for Britain

Keir Starmer's heart wasn't really in it as he faced Rishi Sunak and cracked his many pre-rehearsed jokes at Suella Braverman's expense. The post...

24.05.2023 4

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Airlines are so high up the pyramid of capitalism they no longer compete on price

Airlines don't seem to care about fighting for the cheapest flights anymore. The post Airlines are so high up the pyramid of capitalism they no...

24.05.2023 6

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Britain can respond to Joe Biden’s $369bn of green subsidies by playing to our strengths

The UK's response to hundreds of billions of dollars of green subsidies from Joe Biden must boost the strength of our role as a leader in financial...

23.05.2023 5

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In the former coalfields of North Yorkshire is a story of how to actually level us up

The regeneration of former coalfields can teach the Conservatives a lesson on their own flagship policy - levelling up The post In the former...

23.05.2023 4

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In the former coalfields of North Yorkshire is a story of how to actually level us up

When public sector funding for a regeneration project in North Yorkshire was cut off, that’s when the scheme in the former coalfields really took...

23.05.2023 4

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Analysis: Is it the end of the road for Suella Braverman?

Suella Braverman asked officials if she could do a ‘private’ speeding awareness course after she was caught driving too fast. The post Analysis:...

22.05.2023 4

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We can’t wean politicians off the Nimbys, so we must get them on board with housing

Is there a way to placate the anti-housing Nimbys, even if we can’t bring them on board, writes Noah Khogali The post We can’t wean politicians...

22.05.2023 5

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Even Biden’s green subsidies can’t solve the climate crisis without private money

Addressing the impacts of climate change, and making ourselves resilient to them, requires even more than what governments are able to offer, writes...

22.05.2023 20

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Have the culture war Conservatives killed off Cameron-style Tories?

Is the nasty party back? The post Have the culture war Conservatives killed off Cameron-style Tories? appeared first on CityAM.

19.05.2023 6

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