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Shore Capital Markets’ Dr Clive Black on the grocery sector’s problem child
The sector’s sound outlook could be spoiled if Asda’s ‘rollback’ promotion is the opening shot in a price war.
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How to salvage Reeves’ car crash
Chancellor needs to rethink policies such as employer NIC rises, Employment Rights Bill and rates reform.
Budget will raise the UK’s risk profile
Rachel Reeves’ tax-and-spend Budget has dangerous economic implications in ramping up national debt.
Competence is key for Labour
The business community needs sensible supply-side reforms in the Budget to spur economic growth.
Labour must reform civil service
If the new government cannot get a handle on the civil service, it will simply fail to deliver on its plans.
UK faces a debt-to-GDP puzzle
Without a state-induced investment boost, GDP is set to meander sideways for the foreseeable future.
We need supply-side reform now
The UK’s technocracy must be overhauled to liberate business and allow public servants to do their jobs.
Can we still count on ONS data?
Official statistics play up inflation and play down labour market strength in a highly politicised way.
An anti-business UK government
Boris Johnson infamously gave his thoughts on what he thought of business, something that would not generally be appropriate to the decent minds of the British property sector, but let’s just say ‘eff it’. Some Tory ministers sought to smooth over the matter but for many, rightly, it was a case of many a true word said in jest.
Shore Capital Markets’ Dr Clive Black on the CMA and the working of supermarkets
The reputation of politicians ebbs and flows, but now deep-sea creatures more often than not come to mind, such are the country’s scars from recent prime ministers the ever-lively Theresa May, the trustworthy Boris Johnson and the wildly off-the-cuff Liz Truss. If the Tories’ homework had to be marked, accommodating for the Covid-19 pandemic and the dreadful Ukraine war, the school report would make for grim reading.