Chancellor to sign financial services memorandum with Brussels

[ad_1] C hancellor Jeremy Hunt is to sign an agreement with the EU that will see London and Brussels working closer together on financial services and co-ordinating ahead of big…

Hunt criticises Bank of England over inflation crisis

[ad_1] Jeremy Hunt has finally admitted that there were flaws in the Bank of England’s economic forecasting after it failed to get a grip on runaway inflation. After months of…

UK mortgage-holders pay thousands more than Europeans, Labour says

[ad_1] H omeowners in Britain are paying thousands of pounds more than Europeans for new mortgages as interest rates soar, according to Labour. The Bank of England last week raised…

Hunt urges public to hold their nerve amid ‘necessary’ interest rate hikes

[ad_1] J eremy Hunt has stressed that raising interest rates is “one of the most effective methods” of squashing inflation as he urged cash-strapped Britons to be “patient” with the…

BT’s £39bn pension fund cuts UK investments in blow to Hunt’s Big Bang 2.0 ambitions

[ad_1] Baroness Altmann said: “It’s an outrage that a major pension fund, especially one underpinned to some degree by the Government and funded to a significant degree by taxpayer money,…

Hunt’s plan for ‘BigBang 2.0’ blocked by City watchdog

[ad_1] In November, prime minister Rishi Sunak and Mr Hunt abandoned plans to give ministers the power to overrule City watchdogs in an embarrassing climbdown following a rare public backlash…

Labour’s sinister plan to cook the books will leave all of us poorer

[ad_1] According to the Office for National Statistics, PSNW shows a deficit of “only” £605 billion, instead of the £2.5 trillion as measured by the actual amount of money we…

Why the United States keeps getting richer – with Britain lagging ever further behind

[ad_1] It warned that the British capital’s pull was waning amid concerns that fewer companies were choosing to list in the UK.  However, figures from the London Stock Exchange show…

Airports set for bumper business rates amid £1.4bn tax rise

[ad_1] A irports, power stations and business headquarters are set to be hit hardest by property tax changes when new valuations come into force next week, according to research. Revenues…

Jeremy Hunt’s shelved state pension plan will cost taxpayers £250 a year

[ad_1] Jeremy Hunt’s decision to shelve changes to the state pension age will cost taxpayers the equivalent of £250 each per year, new analysis shows. The Chancellor’s plan to abandon…