Tether has quietly become one of the biggest players in the global gold market with a "James Bond"- style bullion-filled bunker in Switzerland https://t.co/HND4yHnRsd
NEW: Keir Starmer's plan for his first 100 days in government
- Diplomatic push at Nato and EPC meeting
- Planning reform blitz
- Push for private investment
- Lifting ban on onshore wind
- Sue Gray has "20 bills" for King's Speech
w/ @EllenAMilligan
https://t.co/BGuLyBuzWy
The FBI monitored a years-long bribery scheme by the world‘s top oil trader, shining light on corruption in global commodity trading. We have the tapes https://t.co/LZUEMBuU6K
Clearly Tax Policy Associates has gone viral - 2.5 billion pages served in the last week.
And an amazing new audience in Italy, Russia, Vietnam and Indonesia.
— Sunak’s faltering performance in recent weeks is evident in the deep-dive of polls by @JLPartnersPolls
— they say the Tories have lost a net 520,000 votes *since* Sunak’s speech at Tory conference at the beginning of October
https://t.co/flTxtATlLg
Exclusive with @EllenAMilligan >>
— The EU has privately raised concerns with the UK about its commitment to the ECHR and UN Refugee Convention as Sunak mulls his Rwanda law
— message sent from EU to UK repeatedly and at multiple levels, sources say
https://t.co/KkJwmRJ2Zp
The 20,000% spike at £100,000 is absolutely not a joke - someone earning £99,999.99 with two children under three in London will lose an immediate £20k if they earn a penny more.
Ah, I'm old enough to remember when China didn't even make it into the top 15 car exporting countries! It was behind Thailand and Sweden and Hungary back in the distant days of, errr, less than three full years ago.
A dominant mood of paranoia clouds Britain's relations with China, says @vincecable
Earlier, an HSBC exec apologized for calling the UK "weak" on China
Bloomberg UK Politics Podcast: https://t.co/SFMYoaQezB
Who is funnier - Keir Starmer or Rishi Sunak?? Comedian @MatthewsonJames weighs in ahead of his Edinburgh fringe show...
Listen here:
Apple: https://t.co/EQ3B5dsRmV
Spotify: https://t.co/YSfUVrnHbx
TuneIn: https://t.co/JvwR6cGEp0
NEW: Advisers to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt are increasingly concerned the Bank of England risks raising interest rates too much in the coming months, potentially pushing the UK into an unnecessary recession
Story with @PhilAldrick@Joe_Mayes >> https://t.co/yTRtdjDI9j
Though few expect another leadership change with a general election due by January 2025, Sunak will find it far more difficult to manage his party if MPs lose hope of winning and resort to faction-fighting https://t.co/HED33R1t8Y
NEW from me, @sw_gs & @JoofMS: When dozens of kids died after taking poisoned cough syrup from India, it should have sparked a wide-ranging investigation. Instead Indian authorities cut the probe short https://t.co/0QOO4Ylca8
@HewsonTim @PascalR57 @michaelwhite Effective rates can vary a lot from the headline rate. Map below is from a couple of years ago, but advantages are probably single market>English speaking> low tax> educated workforce.
@Emmetseankelly@MarcKC_Green Census figures are a vast overstatement of vacancy. Include houses under renovation and for sale. Also residents in long term hospital care etc. Less than a third of the houses vacant in the 2016 census were vacant in 2022. An Post numbers are 83,000, other estimates are lower