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British politician who leads the Conservative Party, having previously served as a cabinet minister including Business and Trade Secretary.
Bank of England regulator David Bailey says UK banks hold management buffers larger than the Bank would expect. He told City AM the Bank has opened talks with international peers on simplifying the capital stack to free capital for the economy.
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Prime minister Andy Burnham told MPs he will seek food and drink, youth mobility and emissions trading deals at the EU summit on 20 November. He argues that being open to a longer-term rethink of the relationship improves his chances of success.
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Freshwater Strategy polling for City AM finds 44% back Labour's triple lock change and 55% back the Tory inheritance tax pledge. Both are party pledges for the next election, and the 1,235-voter poll was fielded on 9 to 11 October 2026.
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Kemi Badenoch would scrap the future homes standard, whose energy measures cost £5,000-£8,000 a home at build but over £20,000 to retrofit. Buyers of homes built without them would carry that gap, in a country the Guardian says needs about 6m new homes.
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Bank of England has chosen the Atlantic puffin, barn owl, buff-tailed bumblebee and European hedgehog for its redesigned £5 to £50 notes. With design, testing and printing expected to take years, businesses that handle cash have a series to expect and a long wait for its specification.
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Kemi Badenoch says a Conservative government would end inheritance tax on family homes and let couples leave an extra £1m tax-free. For owner-operators planning succession, it stays an opposition promise until the party wins power and passes it into law.
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Shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith wants Natural England and the Environment Agency abolished in a package the Tories say cuts up to £50,000 off a new home. Until an election, firms still plan against the government's rules and its 28 October Budget.
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Kemi Badenoch would cut UK aid from £9bn to £1bn a year, below the more than £1.6bn Britain has already committed to the UN, World Bank and health funds. Those settlements run for several years, so a Conservative government would have to break them or overshoot its own cap.
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Tory shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith will pledge to scrap the Environment Agency and Natural England and replace two developer obligations with one levy. With the party polling third, the pledges bind no one yet but name the rules a Conservative government would remove.
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