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Simon Jack

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11 months

Nigel Farage fell below the financial threshold required to hold an account at Coutts, the prestigious private bank for wealthy customers the BBC has been told. It also understood that he was offered a normal account at Natwest which owns Coutts. People familiar....

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2 years

Holy cow. The folks who predicted the October price cap within 50 quid accuracy now saying price cap will be 5386 in January and 6616 in April. Ofgem boss urging caution on all future estimates but bloody hell…

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3 years

Worth saying that Oz trade deal is estimated to add 0.02% of UK GDP in 15 years time while govts own estimates of leaving EU single market will reduce UK GDP by 4% over same time period. you’d need 2000 Australias to offset impact. These are govts own figures not mine.

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2 years

Genuine question. Doesn’t fracking only make sense if its nationalised? Otherwise it’s just a bit more gas in an expensive international market?

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4 years

Dyson have received uk govt order for 10,000 ventilators designed and made from scratch. Will also produce an additional 5,000 of which 1000 will be donated to uk. 4,000 to other countries.

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10 months

The information on which we based our reporting on Nigel Farage and his bank accounts came from a trusted and senior source. However the information turned out to be incomplete and inaccurate. Therefore I would like to apologise to Mr Farage.

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3 years

Freight crisis. France blocks lorry movements from UK for 48 hrs due to new COVID strain alarm. Government caught off guard by this. Ministers and officials just beginning to assess the situation. DFT in charge tonight but will be a Cabinet Office convened meeting tomorrow am..1/

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11 months

Thank you to the Coutts customers who have been in touch saying they fall below financial thresholds but unlike Farage have not been threatened with account closure. Clearly a lot of discretion available to the bank.

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3 years

No Erasmus participation. That's a blow for thousands of students now and in the future.

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2 years

Interesting on page 63 of the OBR book - "since 2019 the UK appears to have become a less trade intensive economy with trade as % of GDP falling 12% since 2019 - two and a half times more than any other G7 country".

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4 years

Supermarket exec tells me Matt Hancock has “totally made up what he said about working with supermarkets. We haven’t heard anything from govt directly.” Adds - teams are having to work “round the clock” to keep shelves stocked. Tinned goods,pasta sales “through the roof”

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2 years

Nigel Green, CEO oof deVere Group abandons property investment in Uk “Understandably, lenders are suspending mortgage offers and, in turn, we’re now suspending our property investment division. The Chancellor and PM Liz Truss have recklessly gambled with the UK economy.

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3 years

no deal Brexit will annihilate UK farmers and fishing fleets. former cabinet secretary told me -“nothing is forever”. It’s a matter of fact that 70% of fish caught in UK waters is sold to EU and 70% of fish consumed in UK is from Norway/Iceland waters. Complicated for 0.1% of GDP

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5 years

Drinks industry source baffled that US tariffs will hit scotch whisky but not french champagne or brandy. US could have been helpful to UK business - chose not to be. "what does that suggest about future trade negotiations after UK contortions to keep all of UK out of CU"

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4 years

Dyson just told me it’s been working round the clock to design and manufacture ventilators. “We have deployed expertise in air movement, motors, power systems, manufacturing & supply. We are conducting a full regulated medical device development, and we’re scaling up for volume.”

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2 years

Interesting fact. Non-Dom status “wears off” after 15 years APART from inheritance tax treatment if you are Indian citizen thanks to obscure Uk-India treaty in 1956. India abolished IHT so potential saving of £280 million IHT on £700 million in shares.

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2 years

How long before we see a wave of foreign acquisitions of Uk companies? When pound slumped after Brexit Japans SoftBank swooped on chip designer ARM - now about to be listed in New York.

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5 months

On a train. Standing room only for 3 hours - all seat reservations void. Tannoy apologising saying it’s been reduced from 9 coaches to 5 but not information as to why? Why would you cut number of carriages in half if you have the staff to run 5? Any insights welcome.

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11 months

2/...with the matter rejected the notion that the decision to close his Coutts account was in any way political. "it was for commercial reasons - the criteria for holding a Coutts account are clear from the bank's website". Coutts requires customers to borrow or invest...

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1 year

Did not know that half of French and German citizens don’t have a passport - so can’t travel to UK with just identity card now.

French and German tourists turn their back on Brexit Britain

Industry leaders fear new entry restrictions and the UK’s tarnished image among some Europeans have caused a decline in EU visitors

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3/ £1 million with the bank or hold £3million in savings. Mr Farage recently posted a 6 minute video on Twitter saying that losing his bank account was the equivalent of being a "non person" and that the decision may "fundamentally affect my future career and whether...

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8/...that last year he had what he described as "large significant positive cash balances" going through his business account. Coutts do not offer business banking services to customers who are not also private customers.

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3 years

...Usual volume through Dover alone is 9-10,000 lorries a day going in both directions although often slower on a Sunday. Haulage industry chief tells me “Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse – disaster on top of disaster - I fear for supermarket supply chains...2/

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4/...I can even go on staying living here in this country". Mr Farage disputed the fact that he was offered a Natwest account at the time his Coutts accounts were withdrawn. He says offer of a Natwest account came late last week. The offer of a Natwest account still stands...

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3 years

Although freight coming from France is allowed through, haulage chief says “many will be reluctant to make the crossing to UK if they can’t get back given there is already congestion" End

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4 years

Biz leaders describe "terrible call" with PM & Gove. "Unbelievable disresepectful to concerns of business". PM said COVID had created "too much apathy in business" to get ready. No update on state of talks. Gove described process as "like moving house"....1

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5/..the BBC understands. Mr Farage says that he has tried to open an account with a number of other banks but claims he was rejected on the grounds that he is a "Politically Exposed Person" (PEP). A PEP generally presents a higher risk for financial institutions as regulators...

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3 years

Two things I don’t understand. The desire to eat anything while in bed. And second drinking coffee while walking. Have it before you leave the house or when you get back or when you are sitting down. No one is that busy - least of all the people I see doing it.

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6/ consider PEPs more exposed to the risk for potential involvement in bribery and corruption by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. People familiar with Natwest's thinking insisted that this not the reason for the closure of his Coutts account....

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2 years

Scoop 1/ Chancellor Rishi Sunak's wife, Ashkata Murty has volunteered to pay UK income tax on her worldwide income. Ms Murty owns £700m pounds in shares of the Indian IT giant Infosys founded by her father from which she received £11.6 million in dividend income last year...

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5 years

This is a comment I'm hearing a lot from Japan experts. Lots of different reasons for individual decisions by Nissan, Sony, Panasonic and others to move but common background is a sense that commitment made by Thatcher about UK as perfect EU outpost no longer applies.

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@BBCSimonJack @EdConwaySky Try to understand this from a Japanese perspective. It’s a loss of face to withdraw from a commitment. Not done lightly. The exception is where one has been misled or lied to. So the ‘broken promise’ about a Hard Brexit permits decisions on economic grounds to dominate.

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4 years

Rishi Sunak delivering. This not party political. This is huge. Cash grants increased from 3k to 10k. Total package of 330 bn pounds. Eclipsing France. Govt seems to be ordering insurance companies to pay out on business interruption insurance which mostly doesn’t cover virus.

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5 years

New line from Food and Drink industry - previously gave deal cautious welcome. Now - "In our view, when compared with the deal secured by Theresa May, this deal represents a backward step in terms of securing frictionless trade with the EU"

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7/Mr Farage told teh BBC - "are you telling me that all the other banks say it was a PEP thing and Coutts wasn't - draw your own conclusions." Mr Farage also said that his business account for "Thorn in the Side Limited" was closed despite the fact....

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5 years

Google now been fined a total of over EUR 9 billion in last 2 years by the European Commission. That's very nearly the UK's annual net EU budget contribution.

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1 year

Win or lose - I love Gareth Southgate. What a decent man and what a unique tone he’s struck which seems to have resonated with, created even, a different type of team identity and mentality.

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4 years

The power of Twitter - New from supermarket source “Defra now in contact and trying to make it look like they are very actively engaged with industry and CEOs!!” - Exclamation marks theirs not mine.

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4 years

Business owners outraged that government doesn’t require lockdown of bars restaurants etc but advising people not to go. Many biz owners insist to me that this is a legal/insurance nuance. Meaning biz can’t claim.

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3 years

I think Farming Today may be the most informative Programme on the BBC. On climate,Brexit, budget, all sorts of policy areas and global trends you get proper detail and a sense of impact. If 0545 every day is a bit early for you -listen to the weekly omnibus on BBC sounds.

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4 years

I just wanted to thank the hundreds of freelancers and self employed people who have got in touch about falling outside the government biz support packages. I can't get back to everyone but the volume of contacts I've had show just how important this issue is. Watch this space.

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2 years

Two sources have told the BBC that offices of Sanjeev Gupta's Liberty Steel empire have been raided by the Serious Fraud Office. The SFO is investigating suspected fraud and money laundering by Gupta Family Group Alliance (GFG), including its arrangements with Greensill Capital.

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5 months

@CliveWismayer @jbdunster Admitting you don’t know things and asking questions to those that might is a fault I’m prepared to live with. Thank you for your kind spirited contribution. I can now focus on the many constructive and informative responses I’ve received.

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2 years

An awful symmetry of McDonalds pulling out. Remember the importance ascribed to them opening Golden Arches in red square in 1990s.

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2 years

BP has announced it will offload its 19.75% stake in Rosneft resulting in material loss.

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4 years

100 days with no work and no support. In week when government will promise to spend big, we look at some of those left out of government support programmes. The govt schemes are unprecedented and have kept unemployment at bay but many fall between the cracks. BBC news in 5mins

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2 years

6/ - which requires holders to consider the US their permanent home - for over a year after Mr Sunak became Chancellor of the Exchequer - the second most powerful role in the UK government.

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4 years

Tough morning for Chancellor. A day after Rishi Sunak launched his jobs retention bonus scheme, Boots to cut 4000 jobs and John Lewis 1300. Meanwhile UK's top tax official says he doesn't believe the job retention bonus scheme is good value for money.

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5 years

A no-deal Brexit threatens the UK’s food security and will see higher prices and empty shelves in the supermarket according to a letter from the British Retail Consortium and signed by biggest food retailers inc M&S, Sainsbury, Co-Op, Lidl, Morrison....more to come

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2 years

Energy firm’s £100 billion plan to freeze energy bills for 2 years. A thread The Chief Executive of one of the UK’s largest energy providers presented Kwasi Kwarteng and Jacob Rees-Mogg with a £100 billion plan to stave off an energy price emergency last week...1/

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2 years

Businesses in dark over energy help. A thread. They were promised "equivalent support" with energy costs by the PM last Thursday. No one has any idea what that means. BEIS have told me that there is no detail to share on how support for business will be calculated yet...

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10 months

Coutts - Our ability to respond is restricted by obligations of client confidentiality. Decisions to close accounts are not taken lightly and take into account a number of factors including commercial viability, reputational considerations, and legal & regulatory requirements.”

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2 years

Personal. Some viewers ask why I walk with a limp. I was born with quite a rare neurological condition - Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia. It causes stiffness and weakness in legs. My own case is mild but it’s progressive with age. Like my mother I may need sticks in future.

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4 years

In a week where govt expected to announce new measures to boost economy are you one of the est 3 million small biz and freelancers who fell through the cracks of govt support packages. Follow me and DM me your story.

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4 years

..a bit of disruption but soon get used to bigger better house". Another said -"more of a lecture". Small business groups pressed for transition vouchers to pay for extra prep which Gove agreed to take up with HMT. Another "Felt like a box being ticked - "yes we've spoken to biz"

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2 years

This winter many households will not pay their energy bills because they cant. The government will then have a choice to either distribute more money to consumers directly or make a quasi nationalisation intervention in energy market like banking crisis of 2008…1/

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2 years

@TorstenBell Totally agree. I highlight it every time I’m on. No amount of supply side planning reform will get houses built that no one can buy.

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3 years

IF....IF...we are headed for no deal as seems more likely by the hour. It will be interesting to see how much blame Labour MPs accept for an outcome they didnt want and could have potentially prevented by voting in favour of the May/Robbins deal.

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3 years

Why are we doing this? Business despairs at slide towards no deal. My thoughts on the language barrier between government and business.

Brexit: Businesses despair at prospect of no-deal

As we stand on the brink of no deal, businesses ask, “why are we doing this?” as Simon Jack reports.

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2 years

Breaking. UK govt turns down Aquind's application to build electricity connector between Normandy and Portsmouth. Aquind backed by Russian ex oil and gas tycoons Viktor Fedotov and Alexander Temerko who have been major donors to Tory party. More to come.

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I will be talking to Kermit the Frog on Today at 0820. Career highlight.

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5/ the country of my birth, citizenship, parents’ home and place of domicile" Her decision to pay UK taxes on her worldwide income come on the same day it was revealed that she and her huisband retained their rights to live and work in the US under a green card...

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4/ which, as the BBC revealed, allows her family to avoid paying inheritance tax in the UK, which at current valuation could amount to £280 million pounds. Ms Murty added, "My decision to pay UK tax on all my worldwide income will not change the fact that India remains...

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2/ As a non-domiciled (non-dom) UK resident she is not required by law to pay UK taxes on her international income but in a statement released to the BBC, she was aware that her tax arrangements did not seem compatible with "the British sense of fairness...

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BP under pressure from UK government to offload its stake 20% stake in Russian oil giant Rosneft. Kwasi Kwarteng had call with BP CEO Bernard Looney today and according to an official “left Mr Looney in no doubt about the seriousness of government concerns about BPs exposure...1

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1 year

Slow Horses is so bloody good. Entire cast - special cred for Saskia Reeves - fantastic. but has Gary Oldman ever been better? What a brilliantly adapted, produced etc bit of telly.

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3 years

Read this - Brexit: 'Most difficult week I've had in this job in 20 years. Detailed account from my colleague Carrie Davies on a tough week for those getting stuff in and out of EU.

Brexit: 'Most difficult week I've had in this job in 20 years'

Some hauliers say they have faced long delays and fear things will get worse before they get better.

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2 years

3/ .and I do not want my tax status to be a distraction for my husband or to affect my family...I do this beacause I want to not because the rules require me too". She will however, retain her Indian citizenship and her non-dom status....

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4 years

Treasury very keen to stress that the Job Retention Scheme which will see government pay 80% of workers wages is backdated to beginning of March which means that companies who let staff go in the days before its announcement can bring those people BACK onto payroll and qualify.

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4 years

Flybe source "the game is up". Won't make announcement till last plane lands tonight - thought to be around 11pm. Flybe do not base any aircraft outside UK overnight therefore limited expected role for CAA.

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3 years

Sorry typo - 200 not 2000.

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2 years

Lloyds bank predicts house prices will fall 8% next year in “base case” and up to 18% in worst case scenario. Probability-weighted it predicts house price fall of 9%. Sounds a lot but reminder that house prices rose over 10% in year to August.

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3 years

Great news. Cabbage has been found and returned.

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PLEASE SHARE THIS. Our dog walker’s van with our dog Cabbage in it has been stolen while he was calling at a house in Erconwald Street near East Acton tube London W3 at 10. Please look out for a black Ford Transit reg AF20 XZD. Take a photo and DM me or just ring the police

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Does everyone everywhere smoke weed now? used to getting odd whiff as I walk into work in central london but just went through a nat trust gate (20mins from house with wife & dog) and it smelt like the Wu tang clan & Cypress Hill had got off their tour bus for a bit of a stroll.

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10 months

The headline on the Farage story has been clarified and an update posted. It should have been clearer at the top that the reason for Mr Farage's account being closed was commercial - was what a source told the BBC. That has been corrected.

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Jeremy Hunt re: Microsoft/Activision being blocked by UK competition authroities - "I wouldn't want to interfere with their independence BUT they need to understand their wider responsibility"

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3 years

It seems titanic struggle with the economic minnow of fishing is close to resolution. Still striking that financial services - which 100 times more valuable to UK economy - has been pretty much ignored throughout. Still, biz will toast a deal - then hurry to prepare for Jan 1.

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From Sainsbury All products for the Great British Christmas lunch are already in the country and we have plenty of these. We are also sourcing everything we can from the UK and looking into alternative transport for product sourced from Europe. If nothing changes.....1/

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...we will start to see gaps over the coming days on lettuce, salad leaves, cauliflowers, broccoli, citrus fruit – all of which are imported from EU at this time of year. We hope UK and French govts can come to a solution that prioritises immediate passage of produce and food End

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2 years

As a guitar nerd. Adam Warrington - guitarist for Yungblud is amazing. As was the whole set.

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S&P puts UK on -ve outlook. On Sept. 23, the U. K. government announced a plan to reduce a range of taxes, in addition to its previously communicated intentions to extend wide-ranging support to households on energy bills…..As a result,..

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6 years

OBR pulls no punches. Independent OBR says benefit of any new trade deals post Brexit not material enough to include in any economic forecasts. Also says hard to think of parallel for potential disruption but points to three day week in 1974 which cut GDP by 3% in one quarter.

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9 years

To all who tweeted about tonight's programme - thank you. Response has been massive and bit overwhelming. Made making it feel worthwhile.

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2 years

@richardosman At the media lock ins in the basement of the Bank of England they still dial the speaking clock and put it on speaker and only when it hits the appointed hour do they flip over a paper chart to reveal the WiFi address so journalists can file their copy. I kid you not.

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@StewartWood Late to this but surely given we aren’t testing it means we have thousands more cases. Deaths easier to record. Testing for death is pretty straightforward.

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Climate protest at mansion house during Chancellors speech. Protestors Seem to have taken over PA with alarm being piped through Never seen this in nearly ten years coming here.

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DHL suspends shipments of business to consumer shipments from GB-EU that require checks on products of animal origin.

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"no question of financial compensation" - Greg Clark Oct 2016 publicly on Nissan decision to build Qashqai and X-Trail in Sunderland. "As a demonstration of the UK Government’s commitment... a package of support...could amount to..up to £80m" same month in letter to Nissan.

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@DPJHodges I don’t understand this. The energy retailers aren’t making any money and have to buy the gas they sell to us at the internationally set price. If the state stepped in and lowered prices it would need huge taxpayer subsidy. There is no easy fix.

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@Nigel_Farage The information on which we based our reporting on Nigel Farage and his bank accounts came from a trusted and senior source. However the information turned out to be incomplete and inaccurate. Therefore I would like to apologise to Mr Farage.

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6 years

Rolls Royce moving the design approval for large jet engines to Germany - describes the action as "precautionary and reversible".

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4 years

Will be ready in early April.

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10 months

This weather is my fault. First day of my summer hols.

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Killer line from BoE economist - it is difficult if not impossible to expect businesses to incur the substantial costs to be fully prepared for a scenario that the government says it does not want.

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@RevRichardColes @tcollins298 Thanks Richard. I suppose my naive assumptions come from hooking as many carriages as I could muster/afford to my Hornby Mallard.

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The story of Greensill infiltration of government and civil service has been an arms race between FT and Sunday Times. This professional respect and courtesy a civilized bonus 👇🏻

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more fantastic reporting from Gabriel, shedding further light on how civil service chief Jeremy Heywood encouraged and promoted young Lex Greensill....for reasons we may never fully understand

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Supermarket said no question of shortages of food (unlike sanitising products where there are shortages) but there was a logistical challenge physically restocking the shelves

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Can’t shake feeling govt missed an opportunity to raise fuel duty. First budget, massive drop in oil price, environmental creds in COP 26 year. Price at pumps would not move. Valuable tax revenue to offset huge spending commitments. Thoughts?

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1/The BBC understands government will imminently announce certain sections of HS2 will be delayed to save money. It's thought delay will primarily affect sections from Manchester to Crewe and Birmingham to Crewe. However...

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It was 31 years ago to the week that I lost my father to stress anxiety and depression. Here - a look at what some businesses are doing to play their part in improving mental health in the workplace. Including iv with Lloyd’s CEO who took 8 wks out. V rare

Simon Jack - BBC News

Simon has been the BBC's business editor since 2016. He has worked for the BBC as a business journalist since 2003, during which time he presented business slots for Radio 4's Today programme and BBC...

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@colingale @afneil Manifestly untrue. @afneil did what he always does. Deny his interviewees the option of answering a different question than the important one asked - by the consistent and persistent presentation of facts and their own comments on record.

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