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Morrisons to shut 100 convenience stores as supermarket blames Labour’s ‘policy choices’ for rising costs
April borrowing surges to £24.3bn as debt interest bill breaks month record
Jaguar Land Rover eyes American tie-up with Stellantis to sidestep Trump tariffs
Labour eyes £1bn VAT raid on airport charges in stealth blow to family holidays
Blame the system, not the school leavers for youth unemployment, says Amazon’s UK boss
Potters win £120m rescue as government finally backs Britain’s ceramics heartland
Reeves serves up summer of savings with VAT cut on family days out
Andrew trade envoy files: Queen ‘very keen’ ex-prince led UK plc abroad, Whitehall papers reveal
HS2 reset to punch £33bn black hole in Britain’s public finances
Youth jobs in retreat: IFS warns Britain is sliding back to Covid-era lows

Amy Ingham

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Morrisons is preparing to pull down the shutters on 100 loss-making convenience stores in a move that places hundreds of shop-floor jobs in jeopardy, with the Bradford-based grocer pointing the finger squarely at Labour's tax and wage agenda for tipping the sites into terminal decline.

Morrisons to shut 100 convenience stores as supermarket blames Labour’s ‘policy choices’ for rising costs

22 May 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

British families planning a getaway this summer could find the cost of flying creeping up again, after it emerged that Treasury officials are quietly drawing up plans for a £1bn VAT raid on the fees airports charge airlines, a move the industry has branded a stealth tax on holidaymakers and exporters alike.

Labour eyes £1bn VAT raid on airport charges in stealth blow to family holidays

22 May 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Britain's largest online retailer has waded into one of the most uncomfortable debates in Westminster and the boardroom: who, exactly, is to blame for almost a million young people sitting outside the labour market?

Blame the system, not the school leavers for youth unemployment, says Amazon’s UK boss

22 May 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

After years of quiet desperation in Stoke-on-Trent, the kilns finally have something to celebrate. The government has unveiled a £120 million support package for the UK ceramics industry, ending a prolonged lobbying campaign by manufacturers and trade bodies who had warned that one of Britain's oldest industrial sectors was being allowed to slip away.

Potters win £120m rescue as government finally backs Britain’s ceramics heartland

22 May 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

The founder of 4Networking lost a £2 million business in an afternoon, then spent four years being smeared online by a woman he had met for 30 seconds.

Brad Burton interview: how the UK’s no.1 motivational speaker rebuilt after lockdown wiped out 4Networking, and survived a four-year online stalking campaign

21 May 2026 Entrepreneurs Amy Ingham 0 Comments

The Government's headline-grabbing summer VAT giveaway has been dismissed as politically convenient window-dressing by the head of the UK's night-time economy trade body, who argues that the country's clubs, festivals and live music venues have once again been left to fend for themselves.

Nightlife chief brands Chancellor’s summer VAT cut a ‘superficial fix’ that abandons clubs and festivals

21 May 2026 In Business, Opinion Amy Ingham 0 Comments

The Treasury faces the unenviable task of plugging a shortfall of up to £33bn after ministers conceded that the latest reset of HS2 has driven the embattled rail project's bill towards a staggering £102bn, leaving the chancellor with little choice but to raid other budgets, raise taxes, or both.

HS2 reset to punch £33bn black hole in Britain’s public finances

21 May 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Facebook’s parent company has begun notifying staff worldwide that they are out of a job, with engineers and product teams bearing the brunt of a 10 per cent cull designed to bankroll a $145bn artificial intelligence spending spree.

Meta to axe 8,000 jobs as Zuckerberg doubles down on AI race

21 May 2026 In Business, Technology Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Britain’s private sector workforce is staring down its sharpest squeeze on real take-home pay since the cost-of-living crisis of 2022, as a fresh burst of oil-driven inflation outpaces a visibly slowing rate of earnings growth.

Private sector workers face worst real pay squeeze since 2022 as oil-driven inflation bites

21 May 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

The chief executive of US fintech Bolt has mounted a robust defence of his decision to sack the company's entire human resources department, telling a Fortune audience that the team "created problems that didn't exist" and that those issues "disappeared" the moment he showed them the door.

Bolt boss defends sacking entire HR team, claiming staff ‘invented problems that didn’t exist’

21 May 202620 May 2026 In Business, Legal Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Smruti Sriram OBE of Bags of Ethics wins the 2026 Veuve Clicquot Bold Woman Award, with Seabound's Alisha Fredriksson taking the Bold Future Award for slashing shipping emissions by up to 95 per cent

Bags of Ethics chief and shipping carbon-capture pioneer crowned at 2026 Veuve Clicquot Bold Woman Awards

21 May 202621 May 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

England's water security is heading for a serious squeeze, and the bill for inaction will land squarely on the desks of farmers, food producers, manufacturers and the wider small business community.

Taps could run dry without urgent action on drought, peers warn ministers

21 May 202619 May 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Cheap chatbots are helping residents fire off forensic objections in minutes, piling pressure on already-stretched council planners and threatening the government’s flagship housebuilding pledge.

AI-powered nimbyism is jamming Britain’s planning system putting 1.5 million new homes at risk

20 May 202620 May 2026 In Business, News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

For all the column inches lavished on hoodie-wearing teenage coders and so-called "Silver Starter" retirees launching second-act ventures from the kitchen table, the typical British entrepreneur looks remarkably like the one who turned up at Companies House a quarter of a century ago. They are 43 years old, mid-career, and, by the looks of it, completely unmoved by fashion.

The ’43 club’: why Britain’s typical entrepreneur has barely aged a day in 25 years

19 May 2026 In Business Amy Ingham 0 Comments

Greene King has sold Old Speckled Hen to Estrella Damm owner Damm UK as it retreats from supermarkets and refocuses on its pubs. Inside the deal and what it means for British brewing.

Greene King pulls the plug on supermarket strategy with sale of Old Speckled Hen to Spain’s Damm

19 May 202619 May 2026 News Amy Ingham 0 Comments

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Morrisons is preparing to pull down the shutters on 100 loss-making convenience stores in a move that places hundreds of shop-floor jobs in jeopardy, with the Bradford-based grocer pointing the finger squarely at Labour's tax and wage agenda for tipping the sites into terminal decline.

Morrisons to shut 100 convenience stores as supermarket blames Labour’s ‘policy choices’ for rising costs

Morrisons is closing 100 loss-making convenience stores, putting hundreds of jobs at risk, and has blamed Labour’s “policy choices” for the rising costs eroding profitability.

April borrowing surges to £24.3bn as debt interest bill breaks month record

Jaguar Land Rover eyes American tie-up with Stellantis to sidestep Trump tariffs

Labour eyes £1bn VAT raid on airport charges in stealth blow to family holidays

Blame the system, not the school leavers for youth unemployment, says Amazon’s UK boss

Potters win £120m rescue as government finally backs Britain’s ceramics heartland

Brad Burton interview: how the UK’s no.1 motivational speaker rebuilt after lockdown wiped out 4Networking, and survived a four-year online stalking campaign

Nightlife chief brands Chancellor’s summer VAT cut a ‘superficial fix’ that abandons clubs and festivals

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