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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 Europe's 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 took place in the UK. The first few weeks of this year have seen the proportion plunge to just 4%, acc...

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 think tank New Financial. A new dawn for Paris? Its business district is seeing an influx of financia...