Progress is made through partnership, and the City of London Corporation remains the partner of choice for government when it comes to connecting capital for growth. Through initiatives like the financial services Investment Hub and the Transition Finance Council,

The government said the new system would help to curb illegal migration, but opponents said it would infringe on citizens’ privacy.

A bitterly divided democratic camp, a constitutional setup with few guardrails and a surging extreme right spell trouble ahead for Britain’s political institutions.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer last week announced plans to require workers to hold a compulsory digital identity card to tackle illegal immigration.

Britain is not in a recession. Critics say the government crushed the private sector with tax increases in 2024, but the economy grew faster in the first half of 2025 than any other in the G7 group of big rich countries.

Labour’s tax increases didn’t help growth or productivity.

Only Denmark, Germany and Ireland have more expensive domestic electricity, while industry pays at least 50% more for electricity in the UK than it does in most of the rest of Europe – and over three times more than in the US. Although this is bad for everyone, particularly poorer households, arguably the real crisis is in industry.

The British government’s critical-minerals strategy recognises that the economy relies on minerals typically mined in far-off lands in often dubious conditions. China’s huge role alarms Western policymakers. Britain’s strategy promises support, financial backing and even subsidised electricity to restart domestic production.

Since July, when news had arrived from Massachusetts of Britain’s Pyrrhic victory at Bunker Hill, which had cost a thousand redcoats dead or wounded, it had been clear that King George III’s soldiers could not crush the American rebels that year.