Investors have expressed concern regarding Chancellor John Healey’s intention to raise an additional £9 billion annually in government debt. This funding is intended for strategic investments across infrastructure, housing and
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Mike Kirk, a former supervisory leader at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency who recently joined Klaros Group as a senior director, has expressed deep concern regarding the
Crude oil costs fell sharply on Tuesday after senior American government figures suggested a diplomatic agreement with Iran might soon allow traffic to resume through the strategically vital Strait of
pNew financial projections have sharpened the political disconnect between Labour’s drive for fiscal devolution and the daily burden on households, with national council tax receipts in England forecast to climb
Mitie has accepted a £3.1 billion takeover offer from private equity-backed rival OCS Group, bringing an end to nearly four decades as a publicly listed company and adding to the
The government’s pledge to ease the burden of prices on households faces a renewed and broader test as global oil markets tighten and the energy complex hardens against a backdrop
The government has set out a plan to extend the reach of the road charging system beyond the borders of the United Kingdom, arguing that the transition to electric vehicles
The government’s bid to shield under sixteen year olds from the perceived dangers of social media has quickly become a defining contest for Britain’s technology sector. Ministers present the policy
By mid-morning in London the numbers told a story that diplomats had failed to contain. Brent crude, the benchmark that does duty as the world’s shorthand for energy risk, had
The Office for Budget Responsibility has spent the past decade trying to persuade politicians to look beyond the next fiscal event, and beyond the next election, to the quieter mathematics
The Office for Budget Responsibility has acquired an unshowy talent for delivering bad news in a voice so measured that Westminster can pretend, for a while, not to hear it.
Only months ago, the oil market was braced for a familiar kind of panic: a geopolitical shock that chokes supply, spikes prices and forces governments into hurried, expensive choices. The
In the spring of 2020, with hospitals bracing for a virus that was still poorly understood and supply chains collapsing in real time, Whitehall found itself in a dilemma that
In the week of American Independence Day, the language of national destiny was repurposed for personal finance. From the Oval Office on July 4, President Trump formally launched a new
On a first encounter, Farnworth Green presents the sort of municipal optimism that looks persuasive from a train window. Step off at the bus station and you are met by
The story of “Stargate UK” was sold as a landmark in modern industrial strategy: a transatlantic partnership, a flagship datacentre, and a signal that Britain would not merely consume the
