UK Business News

Responding to the IMF’s analysis on the UK economy announced today, Mark Littlewood, Director General of the leading UK political think tank, the Institute of Economic Affairs, said:
“The IMF’s analysis makes it plain that George Osborne doesn’t need a Plan B. He should not be diverted from a strategy to get the deficit under control.
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Ahead of David Cameron’s speech on NHS reforms today, Mark Littlewood, Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), says that the government needs to be far more radical when it comes to reforming healthcare; and that NHS reforms won’t fail because they are too radical, but because they are not radical enough.
“The current [...]

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I previously wrote on how it seems that rappers have helped to sort out the economy, now it seems that the School of Rock has entered the classroom.  Check this BBC programme out, which shows just how effective education can be when it borrows accelerated learning strategies from the School of Rock.
Education works when our [...]

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Santander is further enhancing support to small business and SME’s after securing its third tranche of funding from the European Investment Bank (EIB), enabling it to provide discounted loan rates to qualifying businesses.
The new EIB funding complements Santander’s commitment to UK companies and follows its pledge to increase lending to small and medium-sized enterprises by [...]

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Skype is based in Luxembourg and currently has 663 million global users. Last year it originally intended for a share flotation but the plan was put on hold and this week Microsoft announced it is to buy the internet phone company. The deal will see Microsoft pay £5.2bn ($8.5bn) for Skype, making it Microsoft’s [...]

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