Conservative leadership race must speak to the City July 1, 2016 As Michael Gove’s former head of communications, James Frayne, argued in City A.M. on Tuesday, nobody should be surprised that politicians lacked a ready-made vision of what Brexit will look like immediately after last week’s shock vote. UK politicians have abdicated responsibility over issues like trade policy to EU fonctionnaires for over 40 years, so [...]
EU referendum: Vote Leave doesn’t answer question on former BNP member’s £600,000 donation June 22, 2016 Vote Leave campaigner Andrea Leadsom last night failed to give an answer on whether a £600,000 donation from a former British National Party member would be returned. It came to light earlier this week that Vote Leave had accepted the donation from a former member of the far-right BNP. Read more: Davidson more likely to [...]
Ruth Davidson backs Theresa May for leader of the Conservative party July 8, 2016 We are living in serious times, and serious times call for serious people like Theresa May, Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said as she gave the home secretary her backing for Tory leader. Davidson, who recently pulled a coup d'état by pushing Labour into second place in Scotland, said that she trusts May to go "eyeball [...]
Editor’s 2016 review: It’s been a year of momentous political change, but there’s every reason to look to the future December 22, 2016 Attempting to reflect such an extraordinary year with just a handful of our own front pages was always going to be difficult, but I thought we’d give it a go. The front page of City A.M. is (to borrow a phrase from our marketing department) the front door of our brand. The choice of splash, [...]
Philip Hammond backs Theresa May for Tory leadership as country needs “pragamatism” over “dogmatic rhetoric” July 4, 2016 Foreign secretary Philip Hammond has backed home secretary Theresa May for the Conservative leadership as EU negotiations "require a good dose of old-fashioned British pragmatism". Hammond said that there is a trade off between market access and restrictions on movement, which need to be agreed at the start of negotiations and not the end, meaning a [...]
PMQs today: Prime Minister David Cameron under pressure on zero-hour contracts and comments by pro-Leave ministers June 8, 2016 Prime Minister David Cameron came under fire from opposition in PMQs today on zero-hour contracts in the aftermath of the revealed exploitation at Sports Direct. "Will the Prime Minister do what some other European countries have done and ban exploitative zero-hour contacts here?," Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn asked. David Cameron acknowledged that the practice of Sports [...]
Cabinet minister says Cameron and Osborne are “too rich” to understand the issue of immigration May 29, 2016 Cabinet minister and pro-Brexit politician Priti Patel has said in an opinion piece in the Telegraph that David Cameron and George Osborne are "too rich" to understand how high immigration is hitting the general public. The attack comes as the Brexit camp centre the debate on immigration, with Boris Johnson and George Osborne penning a letter in this [...]
Brexit campaigners are “peddling nonsense” according to Prime Minister David Cameron June 7, 2016 Prime Minister David Cameron has launched a withering attack on Leave campaigners, accusing them of “peddling nonsense” and "telling complete untruths to the British people". In a press conference in London this morning, Cameron highlighted yesterday's statement from the Institute of Fiscal Studies, which slammed justice secretary Michael Gove for arguing that Brexit would leave billions [...]
Former Tory MPs Douglas Carswell and Sir Malcolm Rifkind have crossed swords over Theresa May’s leadership campaign July 6, 2016 Former Tory MPs Douglas Carswell and Sir Malcolm Rifkind have crossed swords over Theresa May's bid for the Conservative leadership, attacking the home secretary's “regrettable” failure to provide sufficient reassurance to EU nationals living in the UK. May declined to offer her backing for continued residence for EU nationals this weekend, stating on Peston on Sunday [...]
Too close to call: New polls reveal EU divide as campaigning resumes June 19, 2016 The latest polling indicates Britain's decisio on EU membership is too close to call as campaigning resumed for the first time since the murder of MP Jo Cox. With just four days left until the country heads to the ballot box, several polls put the two sides neck and neck while Remain clawed back some of the gains [...]