7 d. ago ALEX BRUMMER: Labour look all at sea due to Cabinet's lack of commercial experience and wisdom

At the national level, the lack of an industrial strategy and those to execute it with skill has left the Government naked.

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8 d. ago ALEX BRUMMER: China's furious response is the start of a truly explosive trade war

Strategic analysts have long forecast that the competition for supremacy between the world's economic superpowers, the United States and China , would end in war.

Events

1 week ago ALEX BRUMMER: This really is a global catastrophe, but the PM hasn't grasped just how vulnerable we are

Wall Street trader Bill Ackman is one of Donald Trump's most faithful backers in the financial world.

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2 w. ago ALEX BRUMMER: Donald Trump's Liberation Day leaves its scars

The Wall Street Journal compares 'Liberation Day' to Richard Nixon's decision to blow up the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates in 1971. The Economist calls it 'Ruination Day'.

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2 w. ago Man Utd's Jim Ratcliffe warns Labour's Net Zero 'shutdown' of North Sea oil and gas 'raises the risk of blackouts' and demands Windfall Tax is scrapped

The billionaire Ineos CEO and part-owner of Manchester United warned Britain came 'perilously close' to losing power in January when light winds prevented wind turbines from being effective.

Events

2 w. ago ALEX BRUMMER: If Donald Trump refuses to relent on his tariffs, we face a stock market cataclysm, global recession and a new inflationary spiral

Donald Trump avoided introducing his latest raft of tariffs today, on April 1, for fear he would be ridiculed for bringing in such radical measures on April Fool's Day, writes ALEX BRUMMER

Economics

3 w. ago ALEX BRUMMER: The Office for Budget Responsibility must be stripped of its powers or all our wallets will suffer

ALEX BRUMMER: Of all the blunders Rachel Reeves has made since becoming Chancellor, none has been greater than her empowerment of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).

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