Mark Kleinman: Will Reeves step back from a Hallowe’en nightmare? October 10, 2024 Mark Kleinman is Sky News’ City Editor and is the man who gets the City talking in his weekly City AM column.
Sunak repeats tax cuts pledge despite playing down low-tax Chancellor image March 28, 2022 Rishi Sunak today reiterated his commitment to cutting taxes in the future, despite playing down claims he has styled himself as a low-tax Chancellor. Responding to a grilling by MPs on the cross-party Treasury Select Committee, Sunak said his “priority at this point forward is to keep cutting taxes, not to increase public spending”. However, [...]
The combined power of AI and WhatsApp could wreak havoc for the next election July 11, 2023 The speed of AI generation of deepfakes, combined with WhatsApp’s power for dissemination, could set up for a new battleground at the next election, writes Giles Kenningham
Rampant inflation to put public services under ‘visible strain’ unless government ramps up spending August 10, 2022 Rampant inflation is putting the NHS and other public services “under considerable, and visible, strain,” top economic experts have warned today. Government departments and local councils are set to struggle to provide services to taxpayers due to swelling costs eating up their budgets. Higher inflation will erode more than 40 per cent of announced funding [...]
UK will not diverge far from EU in Brexit rules bonfire, says Treasury official May 31, 2022 The Treasury’s chief of financial services looked to play down the severity of the UK’s planned post-Brexit bonfire of financial regulation today, saying the EU’s financial rules shared the same goals and were designed in part by UK lawmakers.
UK will become ‘innovation wasteland’ if Hunt pushes through R&D tax relief cuts, FSB warns February 22, 2023 The UK will become an “innovation wasteland” if the government pushes ahead with plans to slash research and development (R&D) tax relief, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has warned. The UK’s largest business group urged ministers today to reverse plans to gut the R&D tax relief scheme, announced by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt in November, [...]
Sunak’s pledge for VAT cuts on energy bills only a short-term solution to energy crisis, warns IFS July 28, 2022 Scrapping VAT on energy bills should only be a temporary measure to ease costs for struggling households, argued the IFS.
Suella Braverman sacked as home secretary over security breach October 19, 2022 Suella Braverman has become the second senior cabinet minister to be sacked from Liz Truss’ government in less than a week, with Grant Shapps appointed as her replacement. Braverman was asked to resign as home secretary this afternoon, first reported by The Guardian, after she sent an official Home Office document to a backbench MP [...]
A British Silicon Valley won’t happen with wishful thinking February 21, 2023 Jeremy Hunt wants Britain to be the next Silicon Valley, but the one organisation which might’ve made it true has lost its government funding, the soon-to-be former CEO of Tech Nation gives his experience on a transformation made of nothing but hard work.
Crypto and blockchain: Who among our politicians is really on board with crypto? April 5, 2023 Greengage CEO Sean Kiernan highlights some in-house research analysing which government ministers are championing crypto.