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A damning new report accuses the City regulator of getting too close to the very sector it was set up to protect consumers from
Billions of pounds in spending remains unaccounted for, with the National Audit Office unable to sign off the nation’s accounts
The financial data company is accused of listing dozens of bonds as raising funds for a ‘sustainable purpose’ when they could be used to fund fossil fuel companies and deforestation
Millionaire landowners are using dubious statistics to campaign against the Government’s inheritance tax reforms
Peter Jukes in the December Print Edition of Byline Times
Rachel Reeves will be leant on by City figures to deregulate the sector ahead of her keynote speech this Thursday. But transparency campaigners warn too many are falling victim to predatory finance firms
The new Conservative Leader combines culture war politics with a deregulation agenda that would set the country back decades, Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar report
Reeves’ budget only looks radical if you believe the Conservative spin that their own plans were anything other than a cynical scorched earth tactic by a desperate government that knew it was going to lose
The unspoken truth of Rachel Reeves’ Budget is that leaving the EU has left Britain permanently worse off
Maintaining the £3bn tax break for motorists has been a long-term campaign of The Sun newspaper
A damning new Parliamentary report warns that the UK’s broken approach to food has created a “public health emergency”
The Government has announced it will include dynamic pricing in a consultation into ticket resale websites after hundreds of complaints over Oasis ticket sales. But that’s just the start
The single donor has also backed an anti-vaxxer, pro-Brexit candidates and the Conservatives
Accommodation for asylum seekers awaiting Home Office processing amounted to £6.4 billion of the overspend
Both party leaders are promising to slash immigration numbers without being honest about the big costs it will inevitably bring to our economy and public services
On the same day the government was talking up its inflation “success” it launched a domestic emergency preparedness plan, suggesting households stock op on essentials
Brexit will cost British firms £7.5 billion a year in new costs, according to a new report, with hundreds of millions wasted on border facilities that were never used
The former party leader told Byline Times that Labour will not ‘not sign up’ to Conservative budgets if the party wins the next general election – a contrast to 1997
The Prime Minister and his wife’s personal wealth rose to £651 million amid the biggest fall in living standards for British people since records began
Chris Grey disentangles the myriad alarming claims being made about ‘special economic zones’ and freeports in order to focus on the real risks
The Government’s ‘slash and crash’ Budget was left largely unscathed by Keir Starmer’s party. Why?
Chris Blackhurst unpacks the NatWest scandal that toppled the first woman to head a High Street bank.
The Environment Agency vowed that its pension fund would be going green – Byline Times’ analysis suggests this has not been the case
As Britain goes into recession, the Government is planning to double down on the same slash and burn agenda that first helped get us into this economic slump
Sunak’s freshly minted Business Council, tasked with boosting the UK’s economy, includes corporations fined for offences from bribery to money laundering and environmental violations
Four years on from leaving the EU, the Department for Business and Trade’s overview of Brexit tells a powerful story – of fiction
The party’s U-turn on the bankers’ bonus cap comes just months after the party campaigned against scrapping it
A new report by the Public Accounts Committee lambasts the Treasury for being ‘too passive’ in chasing up the cash, resulting in inaccurate figures
New legislation designed to limit the activities of Russian oligarchs seems to be more honoured in the breach than the observance
Four of the biggest banks in the UK amassed £41 billion in pre-tax profits in the first nine months of the year alone.
EXCLUSIVE: The Chancellor is lavishing cash at areas under significant threat from Labour
Unprotected departments face 14% cuts to fuel the Conservatives’ pre-election tax rebate
Details buried in the Chancellor’s statement show we are heading for years more of tax rises, low growth and public sector cuts thanks to his Government, reports Adam Bienkov
There are over 1,000 loopholes and exemptions in the tax system – often designed and secured by big firms and lobbyists.
With only a fraction of local government audits now completed on time and a significant decline in their quality, a fundamental pillar of devolution is under threat, leaving communities in the dark on their council finances, experts warn
Despite Government calls for pay restraint, new figures show some people are doing very well out of the cost of living crisis, writes Josiah Mortimer
The two former chancellors reveal how ‘the grown-ups in the room’ collude in their outlook
The lax management of the UK companies register allows fake businesses to proliferate
A new parliamentary report reveals that, apart from the £16.4 billion estimated tax and benefit fraud found by the National Audit Office last year, ministers have no idea about the level of fraud in the rest of government
The collapsing school buildings scandal has exposed how the Government failed to ‘fix the roof while the sun was shining’
Sunak’s Government is throwing out plans to get dirty money out of the UK
The pandemic has revolutionised how an entire generation see work, education and society