With promising companies either leaving London or deciding not to list here in the first place, this week’s reforms to the UK’s stock market regime could not come soon enough. Despite intense government lobbying, Cambridge-based software design company Arm recently confirmed its intention to list on the Nasdaq. In March, Irish-based CRH, the world’s largest […]
Business gets a hard rap. As Adrian Wooldridge pointed out last week, business news is too often relegated to the back of the paper ‘along with sport and horoscopes’, in favour of blow-by-blow accounts of the latest miniscule Westminster drama. In policy, business often seems like an afterthought. And as we have seen with the […]
It is widely accepted that fundamental reform of our railways is needed to deliver both a better service and improve ever-declining passenger trust. The railways are an essential tool as this Government delivers upon its Levelling Up agenda. The reasons to prioritise rail reform are therefore abundant and clear. Since the pandemic the way in […]
With the country facing the prospect of a cost-of-living crisis, the Chancellor should freeze excise duties – particularly on fuel and alcohol – at the forthcoming Budget. By convention, duties on fuel and alcohol rise in line with the retail price index (RPI) at each Budget. Currently, RPI inflation is at 4.8% which would mean […]
