Retail giant Next has offloaded a highly contested piece of land in Essex after a group of NIMBYs blocked its plans to build a distribution centre. The firm completed the …
Financial Planning
FTSE 100 Live 25 November: Marston’s, Compass, AO World results
Good morning from the City AM liveblog team. At long last, we are just one day away from the Budget, in which Rachel Reeves is expected to unveil tens of …
Ex-OBR chiefs: Reeves was warned about productivity downgrade
Chancellor Rachel Reeves was warned about costly productivity downgrades and should have left a bigger fiscal headroom at the Spring Statement, former Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) officials have said. …
There’s nothing new in Zack Polanski’s fantasy economics
Let’s go for a lyrical opening to this column: “The newspapers shout a new style is growing, but I don’t know if it’s coming or going, there is fashion, there …
London is getting the wrong new railway
The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) extension to Thamesmead is the wrong railway, at the wrong price, for all the wrong political reasons, argues James Ford Ooops. Rachel Reeves is about …
Reeves wants to protect today’s poor by ruining all our tomorrows
If Reeves really cared about the less well off, she would understand they can only be protected with an affluent and stable society, writes Ewen Stewart On Wednesday Rachael Reeves …
Labour’s inheritance tax raid hurts all family businesses, not just rich farmers
Family businesses like mine are the lifeblood of the economy, but Labour’s inheritance tax changes will break them apart, writes Nick Showering Showerings is a family business that has been …
Gambling industry will see job losses if taxes hiked, Chancellor warned
The gambling industry and high street could be hit with job losses if the Chancellor hikes taxes on betting, the Betting and Gaming Council has warned. Rachel Reeves is expected …
Fund managers remain bullish amid private credit fears
Fund managers are bullish heading into the next financial year, despite growing fears over the private credit market and the burst of the AI bubble. According to the latest investor …
Government to back ‘gold-plated’ Heathrow expansion
The government is poised to plough ahead with a controversial £49bn plan to build a third runway over the M25 proposed by the owner of Heathrow airport, despite warnings from …