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‘We had no alternative’: Reeves defends her budget to the CBI
Mon, 25 Nov 2024, 18:25
A defiant Rachel Reeves has rebuked critics of her tax-raising budget on Monday, telling disgruntled business leaders that they have offered “no alternatives” to her plans. Since Labour’s first budget in 14 years last month, business groups have warned that the chancellor’s £25bn increase in employer national insurance contributions (NI …
RFU chief executive’s salary rose to £1.1m despite redundancies and record losses
Mon, 25 Nov 2024, 17:10
The Rugby Football Union chief executive, Bill Sweeney, was paid a staggering £1. 1m for the 2023-24 financial year despite record losses and swingeing job cuts at the governing body. Sweeney’s basic salary rose from £684, 000 to £742, 000 – an increase of 8. 5% – and he was …
Macy’s says single employee was responsible for hiding up to $154m in expenses
Mon, 25 Nov 2024, 16:16
Macy’s revealed on Monday that a single employee was responsible for hiding up to $154m in expenses over the course of nearly three years, prompting the company to delay the release of its quarterly earnings report. The US’s largest department store chain, which owns other brands such as Bloomingdale’s and …
Trump tariff on China could lower global inflation, says UK economist
Mon, 25 Nov 2024, 15:40
Donald Trump imposing massive US tariffs on Chinese imports could drag down global inflation by lowering the price of goods in other countries, a senior Bank of Englandpolicymaker has said. Swati Dhingra, an external member of the Bank’s rate-setting monetary policy committee, said Trump imposing a threatened60% tariff on goods …
What’s in store for returning Asda boss Allan Leighton?
Mon, 25 Nov 2024, 15:36
Allan Leighton faces a back to the future challenge as he once again takes charge at struggling Asda. Two decades on from his first spell turning around the supermarket chain, he has beenappointedas its executive chair, tasked with repeating the feat. When Leighton, 71, left Asda in 2000 it was …
Barclays fined £40m for ‘reckless’ failures in 2008 Qatari fundraising
Mon, 25 Nov 2024, 14:19
Barclays will pay a fine of £40m for “reckless” failures to disclose a fundraising deal with Qatar at the height of the financial crisis, after the British bank agreed to withdraw a legal challenge against it. The FTSE 100 bank effectively won a discount of £10m by challenging the fine, …
Police investigate tractor that created ‘devastating’ wave in flooded UK town
Mon, 25 Nov 2024, 13:13
Police are investigating after a tractor drove through a flooded high street in Tenbury Wells in Worcestershire, triggering a wave of water that hit local businesses, smashing windows and knocking doors open. West Mercia police said they were aware of videos on social media showing the tractor driving through the …
ITV share price leaps as ‘investors consider takeover bid’
Mon, 25 Nov 2024, 12:31
ITV’s share price has jumped after a report that several investors are considering making bids for the British broadcaster. The Love Island broadcaster’s share price rose by almost 9% to more than 71p, as investors hoped for a bid battle between private equity companies and rival broadcasters. The private equity …
Alicia Kearns: the one-nation Tory taking on the Foreign Office
Mon, 25 Nov 2024, 12:00
Alicia Kearns, as a former Foreign Office official and an outspoken voice on foreign affairs, is an MP who understands how the department ticks. She is also someone who does not give up easily, and with some freedom to operate since she is neither on Kemi Badenoch’s Conservative frontbench nor …
Storm Bert: forecasters and politicians criticised after devastating floods
Mon, 25 Nov 2024, 10:28
Weather forecasters and politicians have come in for strong criticism after hundreds of homes and businesses across the UK suffered devastating flooding in Storm Bert but the Met Office has said it issued sufficient warning. There were growing complaints in south Wales, one of the areas most heavily hit, that …
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