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...Lord Lloyd Webber says this will be a once in a generation transformational change that will ensure Britain remains the global capital of creativity....
...UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt said on Wednesday he would explore options to sell part of the state’s holding in NatWest to retail investors....
...Sky News first reported about Farage’s decision to move to Lloyds and said its executives had approved him being taken on. Lloyds declined to comment on any individual customer....
...He will also emphasise how much his party has returned to the centre ground since he took over from the hard-left Jeremy Corbyn....
...Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has floated the idea of adding a £5,000 allowance for investments into UK companies....
...By comparison, NatWest and Lloyds, the country’s two largest retail banks, achieved Rote of 17 per cent in the first nine months of 2023....
...Bookmaker William Hill has Labour at 4/11 to win the seat, which fell vacant after the death last month of Labour MP Tony Lloyd, with Galloway, who is standing for the Workers party, at 2-1....
...In 1914, the chancellor, David Lloyd George, exempted “the citizen of the Empire who . . . is not domiciled in this country” from global taxation....
...UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt will on Thursday sign a financial services deal with Switzerland, claiming it will make it easier for financial firms and wealthy individuals in the two markets to do business with...
...Starmer pledged to root out antisemitism from Labour’s ranks on becoming leader in 2020 after his far-left predecessor Jeremy Corbyn was heavily criticised for his handling of allegations of abuse....
...Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivered, by his own account, “110 growth measures” in his Autumn Statement, and Labour leader Keir Starmer promises growth will be his government’s “obsession”....
...She welcomed the business tax breaks announced by chancellor Jeremy Hunt in the Autumn Statement last month but cautioned: “It is still going to be a tough few years.”...
...Nor, as current chancellor Jeremy Hunt considers extending the scheme, which offers government guarantees for high loan to value mortgages, will it do much this time either....
...The rate is above those available at the big four banks — Barclays, Lloyds, HSBC and NatWest....
...Robin Budenberg, chair of Lloyds Banking Group and the Crown Estate, receives a knighthood....
...Jeremy Hunt, Britain’s chancellor, is meeting bank leaders in Downing Street this morning to address the growing mortgage crisis caused by spiralling interest rates....
...HSBC, TSB and Lloyds Bank were among the lenders to increase rates on some products on Monday....
...The move by the Financial Conduct Authority comes after chancellor Jeremy Hunt told the regulator last week to establish urgently how many customers had been blacklisted for their political views, adding...
...Lenders have already had their arms twisted following interventions from MPs, regulators and chancellor Jeremy Hunt....
...BBC Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman was blackballed from the Garrick in 1993 after he wrote a book that criticised the British establishment. He was subsequently allowed in....
...Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced the deal — which also includes a commitment to allow borrowers temporarily to lengthen mortgage terms without affecting credit ratings — on a day when interest rate expectations...
...BusinessLDN represents about 175 companies, including some of the UK’s largest employers, including Lloyds Bank, Legal & General, J Sainsbury, Unilever, Deloitte and PwC....
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