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SIR – Despite Sir Keir Starmer’s dizzy rhetoric about seismic swings and new horizons for Labour (telegraph.co.uk, May 3), the turnout in the Blackpool South by-election was only 32 per cent.
SIR – The idea that voting for Reform UK could result in the party replacing the Conservatives in the longer term (Letters, April 29) is a fantasy. The electoral arithmetic simply doesn’t work that way, and the suggestion that we should regard a decade of Labour government as a price worth paying is glib. Labour’s cultural and social agenda is diametrically opposed to the worldview of those drawn to Reform. I would advise anyone considering supporting this party to read Hilaire Belloc’s poem Jim
Many famous brands have lasted for decades, but history shows that they can suddenly fade away.
The FTSE 100 turns 40 on January 3, having launched on that date in 1984 at a starting value of 1,000. The UK’s market benchmark currently stands at a little under 7,500, which might not sound too bad – until you consider that it came within a whisker of hitting 7,000 as long ago as New Year’s Eve 1999. Footsie’s early years were significantly more rewarding for investors than its late teens and early adulthood have been. Until the bursting of the dot.com bubble in 2000, the index only fell twic
THE FTSE will turn 40 in the new year - we look at the stocks that still form part of the index and how it has changed