It may have been the first Christmas unaffected by Covid since 2019, but shoppers did not deliver the usual boost to retail sales last month. 2) Labour will end North Sea investment, says Sir Keir Starmer | The Opposition leader has vowed to stop investing in new British oil and gas fields if Labour wins the next election. 3) Biden …
The Government must lower taxes and remove red tape if it wants to drive long-term growth and “reach the sunlit uplands”, Sir Martin Sorrell has said. Sir Martin's criticism comes just a day after billionaire entrepreneur Sir James Dyson warned that growth had “become a dirty word” in Britain since Mr Sunak became prime minister. But in the long term, …