Labour have today attacked Conservative mayoral candidate Susan Hall’s “uncosted” spending plans for City Hall as “straight out of the Liz Truss playbook”. Hall, who is running for the Tories …
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Global top 50 companies: UK absent as American tech triumphs
There are now no UK companies among the top 50 largest listed companies in the world, as the British economy has struggled to compete with the dominance of American tech …
Political scraps over public or private ownership are a distraction to solving Britain’s railway woes
Delays, cancellations and strikes – the UK’s railways are in a mess. But both parties’ solutions for fixing the nation’s rail network are flawed, argues Guy Taylor The debate over …
Londoners back stop and search as violence cost taxpayers £7bn, poll finds
Londoners have backed stop and search in a bid to slash crime rates, pollsters found, as it emerged violence cost the capital’s taxpayers £7bn last year. Almost one in four …
AIM delistings jump 62 per cent as London’s small cap market suffers
The number of companies delisting from London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM) has soared past pandemic-era highs over the last year as the stock exchange struggles to keep smaller companies on …
Business ‘debanking’ complaints nearly double in a year as MPs warn of ‘unfair’ account closures
The number of official complaints over business “debanking” has almost doubled in the last year, new figures show, as MPs accuse lenders of “unfairly” closing customers’ accounts. A letter to …
Asda tycoons’ private jets flew to the Caribbean 50 times, data reveals
The private jets of Asda’s billionaire owners, the Issa brothers, flew between London and the Caribbean more than 50 times over a two-and-a-half-year period, City A.M. can reveal. Zuber and …
Meet the fund managers: Lessons from 40 years in the investment industry
In City A.M.’s weekly series, Elliot Gulliver-Needham sits down with David Coombs, head of multi-asset investments at Rathbones. What’s the biggest change you’ve seen in the market during your career? …
Premiership rugby: Top four race shows product deserves off-pitch stability
When Joe Carpenter won an 82nd minute turnover against the run of play to hand his Sale Sharks side a 37-31 victory over Harlequins, it catapulted the Mancunians from eighth …
London Marathon mania: Record-number of runners fill City’s streets
A record number of people finished the TCS London Marathon, making the 2024 edition the biggest ever in the event’s history. The day saw Peres Jepchirchir win a thrilling sprint …