Maurício Alencar
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Politics and Economics Reporter for City AM | 🇬🇧🇧🇷
Former OBR chair Richard Hughes took aim at Rachel Reeves' 'rolling' fiscal rules, suggesting they were preventing the UK economy from building enough financial resilience.
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Former OBR chair takes aim at Rachel Reeves’ fiscal rules
Hughes said Rachel Reeves' fiscal rules were “among the loosest” the country had ever had and fail to protect the UK economy.
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January 13, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Former OBR chair Richard Hughes took aim at Rachel Reeves' 'rolling' fiscal rules, suggesting they were preventing the UK economy from building enough financial resilience.
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Exclusive: TfL is set to spend £100m a year on cleaning tubes and buses.
Includes specialist team to tackle graffiti after pressure group Looking for Growth brought attention to the issue across the Bakerloo and Central lines last year
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Includes specialist team to tackle graffiti after pressure group Looking for Growth brought attention to the issue across the Bakerloo and Central lines last year
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TfL to spend £100m a year on cleaning tubes amid graffiti spat
Transport for London (TfL) revealed it signed a contract with Mitie Group last week to clean services across the transport network.
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January 13, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Exclusive: TfL is set to spend £100m a year on cleaning tubes and buses.
Includes specialist team to tackle graffiti after pressure group Looking for Growth brought attention to the issue across the Bakerloo and Central lines last year
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Includes specialist team to tackle graffiti after pressure group Looking for Growth brought attention to the issue across the Bakerloo and Central lines last year
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Rising number of analysts in my inbox are getting worried about Trump's next move...
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Venezuela is ‘uninvestable’ as Trump unnerves market analysts
ExxonMobil boss Darren Woods appeared to distance the oil company from the president’s ambitions to extract oil at a rapid pace.
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January 10, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Rising number of analysts in my inbox are getting worried about Trump's next move...
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Reform UK has extended its polling lead over Labour to 15 points
Starmer also remains the most unpopular politicians in the UK
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Reform UK has extended its polling lead over Labour to 15 points
Starmer also remains the most unpopular politicians in the UK
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New: Reform extends poll lead as Starmer ratings remain worst in UK
Polling by City AM/Freshwater Strategy has shown Nigel Farage’s Reform UK gaining two points in voter share since September as Starmer slumps
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October 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Reform UK has extended its polling lead over Labour to 15 points
Starmer also remains the most unpopular politicians in the UK
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www.cityam.com/reform-exten...
Reform UK has extended its polling lead over Labour to 15 points
Starmer also remains the most unpopular politicians in the UK
@cityam.bsky.social
www.cityam.com/reform-exten...
Who is DAZN billionaire owner Len Blavatnik, who has agreed a $1bn deal with FIFA to show the Club World Cup?
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Special report: How Oxford partnered with Russian bank and Blavatnik - Cherwell
Following Cherwell’s discovery of Russian oligarch Vladimir Potanin’s £3 million donation to Teddy Hall and $150,000 to the Saïd Business School, Cherwell has traced the origins of Oxford University’s...
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December 4, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Who is DAZN billionaire owner Len Blavatnik, who has agreed a $1bn deal with FIFA to show the Club World Cup?
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I think my most nineteenth century belief is that we should all take our free time much more seriously. I wrote this on the virtues of self-education and against wasting time on screens
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True knowledge is worth a million TikToks
In an age of distraction it’s no wonder non-fiction book sales are down but self-education always necessitates hard work
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December 2, 2024 at 8:24 PM
I think my most nineteenth century belief is that we should all take our free time much more seriously. I wrote this on the virtues of self-education and against wasting time on screens
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
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