ALEX BRUMMER: Hunt keeps his powder dry by holding back on tax cuts By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Updated: 17:00 EDT, 2 October 2023 Enthusiastic tax cutters looking for red meat in Jeremy Hunt’s Tory Party address were always going to be disappointed. The Chancellor has been signalling …
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After the debacle of solar panels, moreover, the EU has good reason to worry. Having stolen the original technology from Germany, China now dominates the global market for solar energy. Nobody else gets a look in. But though late to the party, the EU, the US, and even the UK …
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Has Royal Mail got some kind of death wish? Has its reputation not been trashed enough? Does it want, perhaps, to end all deliveries entirely and finally succumb to a wriggling, complaining last breath after decades of deterioration? We now learn that it is going to charge businesses a special …
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There are few modern irritations worse than returning home to discover a “sorry we missed you” delivery slip on the doormat. Standing in line at a collection point feels incongruous in a world where most day-to-day communications have switched to email, and hundreds of thousands of products can be delivered …
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Kretinsky clearly does not see it that way. Last week, he agreed a €1bn (£860m) deal to take control of the loss-making IT services unit of the technology company Atos. It adds to a growing portfolio in France. Only last month, he won control of the ailing supermarket chain Casino …
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Good fund managers are few and far between. Even rarer are those who remain on top of their game for a sustained period. Last week, I spoke to Nick Train, of asset manager Lindsell Train, who has been at the helm of investment trust Finsbury Growth & Income since late …
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Dear reader, You’re adamant that your watch was stolen, but Royal Mail seemed to be insinuating that your lazy packaging efforts might have caused the watch to fall out of its own accord and become lost somewhere within its vast system. I asked you for pictures of the opened package, as …
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“There’s absolutely no limit to this transformation. X will be the platform that can deliver, well….everything. @elonmusk and I are looking forward to working with our teams and every single one of our partners to bring X to the world,” Yaccarino went on. The scary part is that this stream …
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It takes a brave candidate to contest a by-election for any party of government that has been in power for a long time. Stepping in for a charismatic prime minister, toppled by his own colleagues, to fight a tough contest in a corner of a capital city that defaults to …
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“It’s bent!” shouted Mark Francois. “Bent!” And with that verdict, the Second Delegated Legislation Committee descended into a wild riot of affronted dignity and unparliamentary language. How did we get here? This obscure committee was set to wave through something thrilling called the Postal Packets (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023 – …
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