Search results for ‘CBI’
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CBI’s Rain Newton-Smith: result of no-deal Brexit vote ‘hugely reassuring for business’
Rain Newton-Smith is chief economist of the Confederation of British Industry.
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Barry Gardiner MP: Labour customs union plan ‘welcomed by CBI and unions’
Labour’s international trade spokesman Barry Gardiner discusses the party’s plans for a customs union with the EU.
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British business seen as ‘enemy’, CBI told
Business in the UK is suffering a crisis of public confidence and is seen by some as the “enemy”, an industry leader tells the CBI conference.
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Britain will avoid recession – CBI
The CBI employers’ body says Britain will avoid recession but other forecasters are less opimistic, with one economist telling Channel 4 News that “the economy is going nowhere”.
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CBI attacks government solar tariff cuts
With a month to go until payments are cut for households starting to generate solar energy, business leaders have attacked the move, which was announced by the government suddenly last week.
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LIVE BLOG: Cameron and Miliband at the CBI conference
Amid the aftermath of the government’s spending review David Cameron reassures business leaders that the coalition will create growth and a dynamic British economy.
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FactCheck: what is antibiotic resistance and could a new drug overcome it?
The overuse of antibiotics has led to the emergence of “superbugs”.
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FactCheck: is Clinton right that there have been 135 mass shootings in the US in 2023?
The figures aren’t clear cut.
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FactCheck: does gun control work?
States with stricter gun laws have lower firearms deaths – but is one causing the other?
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Treasury’s Covid relief fund is ‘blunt instrument’, says music promoter
We were joined by Rain Newton Smith, chief economist at the CBI, and the live music and events promoter Stuart Galbraith.
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Tory MPs ‘have had enough of accident-prone Boris Johnson’, says Spectator editor
With cuts to universal credit and to HS2 and Northern Powerhouse rail, how well is levelling up going, and with it Boris Johnson?
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PM loses his place in speech praising Peppa Pig
Boris Johnson has insisted his speech to the CBI in South Shields had “gone down well”, after he lost his place, imitated a car and somewhat unexpectedly ranged from Lenin to Peppa Pig.
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Debate: How do we boost workers’ wages and encourage business growth?
We all need a pay rise, the TUC said today as their annual conference got underway. Not just because we might like it, but because it will boost demand in the economy and reward people after more than a decade of falling living standards.
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FactCheck: vaccines minister claims Covid is most infectious respiratory disease
By two major measures, it looks like he’s wrong.
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‘Major contradictions’ in climate policy, says government climate policy advisor
For the second half of our debate on climate change and COP26, we were joined by Keith Anderson, CEO of ScottishPower and the chair of the business organisation CBI Scotland, Prof Kirsty Park, who is a conservation scientist from the University of Stirling and an expert on biodiversity, and Chris Stark, chief executive of the Climate Change Committee, the independent organisation that advises government on climate policy.
