UK SME’s have been very dismissive of Kwasi Kwarteng emergency mini budget, with some branding it as “Trussmoronics not Trussonomics”.
Category: Opinion
Some of the UKs leading business leaders and opinion formers share their insight and ideas for growth
Its time to inject yourself into the thick vein of the ever coursing whitewater rapid ride of the media
In your quest for media traction you’ve now worked out your identity and inherent personality through your God-given face, you’ve handpicked, culled and pruned your associates, you’ve established and weighted the hierarchy of your ‘doing selves’, and expertly blended a potpourri of gestures, intonations and visual queues into a unique ‘cartoon-self’.
Seven days in office: What has PM Truss achieved for businesses?
Liz Truss was sworn into Premiership on the 5th September and it has undoubtedly, been one of the busiest first few days of any prime minister’s career.
Time to pause and reflect upon greatest personal brand of them all, Her Majesty The Queen
This week we must pause and reflect upon the death of the greatest personal brand of them all, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
A Letter from a venture capital firm to our new Prime Minister
Andrew Aldridge, Partner at Deepbridge Capital, has written an open letter to new Prime Minister Liz Truss setting out what he feels are her key priorities for the UK.
New Prime Minister Truss needs to reform more than IR35 to bolster UK’s economy
Following the announcement that Liz Truss has won the Conservative leadership race, the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) has highlighted the key priorities that need to be top of the new Prime Minister’s agenda.
UK investors brace for recession before the end of the year
UK investors are bracing for a recession before the end of the year, new research has found.
Sustaining productivity in a world of hybrid work
The pandemic forced organisations everywhere to rethink how their employees could remain productive at a time when so many were forced to work from home.
Becoming king of the media jungle means starting at the bottom and working your way up by winning title fight after title fight
Your business might be starting to turn over a healthy amount, but meanwhile, you have another objective, cranking up the car of your media persona and venturing onto the open motorway, perhaps without a satnav and not much fuel.
HMRC rakes in £6.1bn from annual inheritance tax receipts, up 14% on the previous year
Alex Davies, Chief Executive of Wealth Club, reacts to today’s HMRC annual inheritance tax receipts and recommends ways to mitigate IHT liability:
The first decision you have to make is whether being in the limelight is for you
As part of handling the Personal publicity for former BBC Dragons’ Den star Duncan Bannatyne, part of my brief was to discreetly supply the Sunday Times Rich List researchers with evidence of his worth
Summer of travel chaos: what next?
Next week will see the official break up for all schools in the UK for the long awaited six-week summer holiday. However, whilst many are hoping to head abroad for their first foreign summer break since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the looming summer of discontent may have other ideas.
UK government should introduce VAT relief for small businesses
The government should provide VAT relief for small companies to help them cope with rising business costs, the chief executive of business banking and financial services platform Tide has said.
A new Prime Minister could see fiscal and monetary policy head in different directions
Jason Hollands, Managing Director of Bestinvest, the online investment platform and coaching service, has spoken to Business Matters about what a new Prime Minister could mean for UK fiscal policy.
How the pandemic accelerated use of anonymised location data from mobile phones
In early 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the Office for National Statistics’ Data Science Campus started working with private mobile phone companies to see how anonymised data could help answer some of the problems that society faced.
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