ALEX BRUMMER: What began as a supply chain issue has hit Boohoo’s share price and could quickly metastasize into something far worse By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:56 BST, 12 July 2020 | Updated: 22:23 BST, 12 July 2020 The narrative of Boohoo is familiar. Modest beginnings on a market stall in … Read more
JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Chancellor Rishi Sunak has done his bit to help save the economy, now we must all do ours, too By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 21:57 BST, 11 July 2020 | Updated: 22:40 BST, 11 July 2020 Nobody can fault the Government – and Chancellor Rishi Sunak especially – for … Read more
Will it work? And who will pay? Those are the two questions raised by Rishi Sunak’s summer package to boost the economy. The answer to the first is: to some extent yes, but that depends on a lot of other factors. And to the second it is: all of us, either as taxpayers or savers. … Read more
Sharon White is having a baptism of fire at John Lewis. As a partnership organisation, it is held to higher standards of governance than other retailers. One can only imagine the pain involved in shutting eight stores and placing 1,300 jobs in jeopardy. This on the same day as another High Street stalwart, Boots, revealed … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: Britain’s tradition of playing a role on the global stage is far from over (whatever Harry and Meghan may think) By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 22:15 BST, 8 July 2020 | Updated: 22:15 BST, 8 July 2020 Boris Johnson’s government has been lambasted for merging the Department for International Development … Read more
Everyone always warns you that planning a wedding is stressful. Pah! I said. How hard can it be? Very, it turns out. At the start of lockdown we were cautiously optimistic everything would be fine by the time we were set to get married in September. But as the weeks dragged on, we realised that … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: Bank of England boss Andrew Bailey in the line of fire as government prepares to splash more cash By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 7 July 2020 | Updated: 23:06 BST, 7 July 2020 Those who doubted Andrew Bailey was the right person to be Governor of the Bank … Read more
‘You can’t air that!’ Big Brother’s Sarah McDougal SHOCKS host Sonia Kruger with lewd comment about 50 Shades of Grey during first tie-break eviction By Candice Jackson For Daily Mail Australia Published: 12:13 BST, 7 July 2020 | Updated: 12:14 BST, 7 July 2020 Big Brother Australia’s Sarah McDougal left host Sonia Kruger speechless during … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: As Lloyds boss Antonio Horta-Osorio quits, his great achievement will be seen as stabilising a bank, which, after the financial crisis, was weighed down with toxic debt By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 22:04 BST, 6 July 2020 | Updated: 22:20 BST, 6 July 2020 Few European bank executives last a … Read more
Antonio Horta-Osorio, the polished Portuguese chief executive of Lloyds Bank, has notched up a number of achievements in his time at the High Street lender. For him, it has been a lucrative tenure in which he has amassed a fortune of more than £56m in salary, bonuses and incentives. But for long-suffering shareholders – including … Read more