ALEX BRUMMER: Unlike Public Health England, UK live sciences have risen to the challenge of Covid-19 By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 20 July 2020 | Updated: 22:18 BST, 20 July 2020 The way in which British life sciences have risen to the challenge of Covid-19 is hugely exciting and an … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: If the post-Brexit Stock Exchange is to have any credibility, it must battle to bring Arm float back to London By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:52 BST, 19 July 2020 | Updated: 21:52 BST, 19 July 2020 When Cambridge-based smart-chip maker Arm Holdings was sold to Japan’s Softbank in July … Read more
HAMISH MCRAE: If our city centres remain ghost towns it will be a social disaster as well as an economic one Walk across the City’s financial district and it is a ghost town Boris Johnson quite understandably has urged people to go back to their offices By Hamish Mcrae, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:54 … Read more
JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Banks have baulked at the idea of sharing branches, but now its time has come By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 21:56 BST, 18 July 2020 | Updated: 21:56 BST, 18 July 2020 Slowly, life is returning to our high streets. It won’t be quite the same as it was … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: Support Britain’s entrepreneurs and boost funding for R&D to tackle the horrific cost of Covid By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 17 July 2020 | Updated: 22:08 BST, 17 July 2020 The cost of Covid-19 is horrifying: Government fund raising in the 2019-20 fiscal year of more than £500billion, … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: Treasury turns to the people for help by relaxing the rules for National Savings & Investments By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 16 July 2020 | Updated: 22:03 BST, 16 July 2020 A great mystery of the financial universe is why HM Treasury has not made more effort down … Read more
Close to where I live in south-west London a top City trader has set up his lockdown office in his vast suburban home with a bank of trading screens as his window on the world. Across town at Canary Wharf just 10,000 workers have returned to the gleaming towers occupied by the elite of world … Read more
VICTORIA BISCHOFF: Raiding the pensions of police heroes injured in the line of duty is nothing short of scandalous By Victoria Bischoff for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 14 July 2020 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 14 July 2020 It is nothing short of scandalous that injured police officers who are long retired now find … Read more
Forecasting is difficult enough in normal times. Britain faces three great uncertainties in the shape of Covid-19, Brexit and relations with China. The decision to ditch Huawei means that ‘Global Britain’ optimism about deeper trading relations with China potentially is in jeopardy. As the People’s Republic accounts for 19 per cent of global GDP, and … Read more
The list of audit failures is legion. In the last several years there have been blunders at Carillion, Conviviality, Patisserie Valerie and Thomas Cook. The conflict between audit and other work, such as remuneration consulting done by the same firm, is there for everyone to see at Boohoo among others. The business select committee has … Read more