Deloitte this morning released its closely-watched Q1 2025 CFO survey of 67 CFOs of companies with a combined UK market value of £427 billion. Conducted between 18 and 31 March, the results paint an increasingly shaky picture:
Geopolitics as usual is given the highest risk rating for businesses – specifically tariffs, sanctions and restrictions to market access. While tariffs threaten growth potential Reeves ploughs on with her plan to tax and spend at the maximum possible level before raising taxes higher in the Autumn…
Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock was asked if Burnham will take Britain back into the EU:
“Yes, sure – his commitment is authentic. He really does understand from the grassroots up why restoring what I think of as normality in our continent is vital for every party economically, politically, culturally, in terms of security, and he’s able to articulate it in language that people can understand. So yeah, he is definitely”.