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Sir Mark Boleat will also be the party's chief minister candidate after the next election.

BUILDING higher, easing restrictions on new developments by reducing the need to provide parking, tighter population controls and help for first-time buyers are among the measures […]

After warnings that Brexit would dent one of the few sectors where the UK is a global winner — financial services — it turns out the City is relatively unscathed. But some ask if COVID has just delayed the inevitable.

The post-Brexit fallout came faster than many had expected. On January 4, the first trading day of 2021, almost €6 billion of EU share trading left London for other European capitals. Then earlier this month came the news that Amsterdam had overtaken London as Europes biggest share trading centre, as daily volumes fell sharply in the City and surged in the Dutch capital. In 2019, when the United Kingdom was still inside the European Union and its single market, 43% of trading in EU stocks too...

British finance firms scatter across European capitals Save Share London | No single European city will snatch London’s mantle as a global financial centre, but the mini-exodus of financial services from Britain could see different cities on the Continent become specialised hubs as Brexit reshapes the landscape. “There’s a very clear sector specialisation emerging in Europe that will be interesting to track,” said William Wright, founder and managing director of the London t...

Those who doubt the resilience of the City outside the EU have received a sharp reminder that there is life in the old dog yet. The EU has waved through the LSE merger with Refinitiv.