ALEX BRUMMER: Debt-aholics like Liberty Global need to be weaned off a system destabilising the global economy By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 22:15 BST, 11 May 2020 | Updated: 08:35 BST, 12 May 2020 John Malone’s Liberty Global is nothing if not brave. Unveiling a £31 billion merger between Virgin Media and … Read more
A West End landlord recalled the other day that he feared his career in retail, which started during Ted Heath’s three-day week in the 1970s, might be over before it had begun. The response of his boss was that the firm survived the Blitz and would see off Heath. Similarly, in this landlord’s view, the … Read more
VICTORIA BISCHOFF: We need a plan to lift the property market safely out of lockdown By Victoria Bischoff for the Daily Mail Published: 22:58 BST, 12 May 2020 | Updated: 22:58 BST, 12 May 2020 Who would want to be a home buyer or seller at this time? Hundreds of thousands of families have been … Read more
Chancellor Rishi Sunak acted fast to rescue the economy, now he has to work out how Britain pays the bill How do we pay the bill for the coronavirus crisis? Britain is a long way from business as usual, but ONS figures showing an astonishing 6.3million workers being paid by the taxpayer were enough to … Read more
Cases of elderly women missing out on thousands of pounds in state pension are piling up, and the Government has failed to say what it is doing to address this scandal. We might be in the middle of a pandemic, but that shouldn’t stop it reassuring those who might be affected that it will carry … Read more
As a vital part of creative Britain, the potential damage being done to ITV by the Covid-19 lockdown should be deeply worrying. ITV’s chief executive Carolyn McCall has done the right things to limit the scarring. Some 800 workers have been furloughed, the dividend and executive pay have been cut, and costs pruned. Studios are … Read more
We can’t afford to lose cash: Grubby card machines pose a similar risk to coins and notes, says VICTORIA BISCHOFF By Victoria Bischoff for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 5 May 2020 | Updated: 23:37 BST, 5 May 2020 There is no doubt that the most hygienic way to pay for something is with … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: As debt bubble fears mount the sooner the UK gets back to work the better By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 22:53 BST, 5 May 2020 | Updated: 23:39 BST, 5 May 2020 When Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party were proposing to go on a government spending spree ahead of … Read more
Lord Blackwell is not known as the most activist chairman of a High Street bank. But as someone who once worked in Downing Street under the gaze of Margaret Thatcher, the Lloyds Bank boss has well-tuned political antennae. By the time be had succeeded Win Bischoff as chairman in 2014, the bank’s chief executive Antonio … Read more
RUTH SUNDERLAND: Furlough scheme needs to be extended and made more flexible, but it is not a long-term answer By Ruth Sunderland for the Daily Mail Published: 21:52 BST, 3 May 2020 | Updated: 21:52 BST, 3 May 2020 The clamour is growing for the Government to extend and improve its furlough scheme, which is … Read more