The leader of Britain’s biggest union Unite is now facing a challenge for the top job. Gerard Coyne announced today that he’ll stand against Len McCluskey in next spring’s leadership contest.
She’s the first woman ever to attend a summit of Gulf Arab states. Pursuing her charm offensive on countries outside the EU, Theresa May told the Gulf Co-operation Council she wanted to build on the trade and investment relationship between Britain and the Gulf
They’ve been under threat for the last nine months. But today a potential deal has been unveiled to save most of Britain’s Tata steelworks.
Another revolution in the running of Britain’s railways is on the way. The Transport Secretary, Chris Grayling, has announced that publicly-owned Network Rail is to share its responsibilities with private train operating companies.
Siobhan Kennedy
While Chris Grayling says he’s not in favour of “throwing everything up in the air and doing a massive reorganisation”, alarm bells start ringing when in the next breath he’s hailing a “new golden era for rail”.
We’re joined now by two members of the Treasury Select Committee, Labour MP Helen Goodman and Conservative Jacob Rees-Mogg.
The Bank of England has warned that the outlook for Britain’s financial stability “remains challenging” in the wake of the Brexit vote – and the governor, Mark Carney, has told this programme that the election of Donald Trump as US President could accelerate the slowdown in global trade.
Jon Snow speaks with Lord Jim O’Neill, the former Goldman Sachs Chief Economist who resigned as a Treasury Minister in September, about globalisation and modernity.
The IFS is predicting that workers will earn less in “real wages” in 2021 than they did in 2008. Just a day after a budget that was supposed to help families who are “just about managing” or Jams, the IFS analysis has cast new doubt on whether it will really make any difference.
The sustained decline in real wages since the 2008 financial crash is the worst Britain has experienced since the war, and possibly in the last 100 years: that’s the conclusion of the influential think tank the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Professor Mariana Mazzucato, from Sussex University, and Merryn Somerset Webb, editor-in-chief of the financial magazine Moneyweek.
Coming soon: Brexit – the day after. A cliff hanger in every sense of the word. As business leaders warn Theresa May about the prospect of a “cliff edge” of sudden and overnight change when Britain leaves the European Union, the Prime Minister has been trying to calm nerves.
They’re young, they’re smart and they’re tech-savvy, but could they be heading to Germany? Amid all the uncertainty about doing business and working in post-Brexit Britain, Berlin is over here, trying to lure tech sector talent over there.
Business leaders are clamouring for certainty and a post-Brexit plan. Are they going to get it? Our Business Editor Siobhan Kennedy has been talking to some leading figures.
Jam today says the government as the Chancellor pledges more help for families termed the ‘JAMs’ – aka ‘Just About Managing’. But as Philip Hammond warns the economy still faces a sharp challenge will there really be much to go around?