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Labour has already blown apart its own spending rules with a £58bn pledge to compensate women hit by a rising pension age, a leading think tank warns today. The Conservatives also have the “thinnest of margins” as they seek to meet their own fiscal pledges unveiled less than a month ago, …

Influential City investors have written to the chief executives of companies including Royal Mail, British Airways and JD Sports urging them to pay their workers a real living wage. The letter calls on businesses to seek accreditation from the Living Wage Foundation, which makes sure companies pay employees and contractors …

Labour's platform involves six pounds of new spending for every one promised by the Tories and includes nationalizing broadband, the Royal Mail, … Source link

We knew that Labour’s manifesto would be nationalisation-heavy but there were still late surprises. Openreach, BT’s broadband division, was added to the list in the final stages. And, more quietly, the big six household suppliers of gas and electricity were included within reforms for the energy sector; previously only the …

Another day, another nationalisation proposal from Labour. Now the plan is to bring the supply arms of the big six energy firms under public ownership. We’re talking here about the retail units of EDF Energy, Centrica (meaning British Gas), Npower, E.ON, ScottishPower and SSE, businesses that supply gas and electricity …

Furious investors are preparing to fight Jeremy Corbyn’s plans to seize swathes of British businesses, arguing his nationalisation spree would be a “blatant breach of human rights” that could trigger a wave of lawsuits.  Shareholders and lawyers believe the proposals could breach international treaties and Brussels rules over state aid, and intend to fight them through …

The slowdown in dividend payouts by the world’s biggest companies continued in the third quarter as waning profit growth hit shareholder payouts. Investors are bracing for further headwinds in 2020 as the global economic picture darkens. The US-China trade war is thwarting economic growth, and major economies such as the …

BT has gone further to demonstrate its value to wider society by building its strategy around the restoration of its “national champion” status. There’s a bitter irony, then, that this is the moment that Labour has chosen to attack it Despite significant misgivings, a little over three years ago, I went …

Tim Martin at JD Wetherspoon writes some entertaining chairman’s rants and, if you skip the sermons on Brexit, he is reliably thought-provoking. Here’s the latest view from behind the pumps: corporate governance in the UK is “up the spout” and a tick-box culture is sowing seeds of destruction. As a …