Treat defence spending as industrial strategy like Canada, Healey told
Advisory firm Blick Rothenberg says John Healey should model Budget defence spending on Canada and treat it as an investment in high-value UK jobs.
Monday 21 September 2026
Some of the UKs leading business leaders and opinion formers share their insight and ideas for growth
Advisory firm Blick Rothenberg says John Healey should model Budget defence spending on Canada and treat it as an investment in high-value UK jobs.
Nigel Green, chief executive of deVere Group, says a bank windfall tax in the Chancellor's first Budget would hand a competitive gift to rival financial centres,…
Keeping a team happy when you’re running a small or medium sized business isn’t always easy. It’s hard to match the salaries that larger companies can…
As GCSE grades land and the number of young people out of work and education passes one million, City Year UK chief executive Victoria Head sets…
FairFuelUK has urged ministers to scrap the 2030 petrol and diesel ban after the EU proposed replacing its 2035 phase-out with a 90 per cent target.
The state screamed at every phone in England and Wales about wildfires, then spent the same week quietly loosening the policies that tackle their cause. Richard…
Richard Alvin argues Westminster's vertical drinking clampdown is the scotch egg rule reborn, and the West End pub cannot survive being made to sit down.
Richard Alvin argues the fastest way to save UK restaurants costs nothing: eat up and go. Dwell times, not menus, now decide who keeps the lights…
There is a particular kind of Monday that is supposed to be boring, and thank God for it. Kettle on, radio grumbling about the M25, the…
As Andy Burnham arrives in Downing Street, City Year UK chief executive Victoria Head sets out five changes the new Prime Minister should make for the…
Richard Alvin argues Trump's Truth Social API, selling traders early access to the president's market-moving posts, is insider trading with a price list.
Richard Alvin argues Andy Burnham's premiership must be Heaton Park, not the Hacienda: Manchester swagger is no use to UK business without someone on the tills.
The UK-India trade deal is in force, but Euro Car Parts founder Sukhpal Ahluwalia argues the real £4.8bn prize depends on what businesses build next.
