Helping UK 🇬🇧 pension fin tech #SmartPension and their platform business #Keystone as they expand and export worldwide 👍
Honoured to speak, listen and learn at #Asian Asset Management conference.
Real growth in #Asia despite the global economic headwinds 1/
Honoured to speak, listen and learn at #Asian Asset Management conference.
Real growth in #Asia despite the global economic headwinds 1/
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A real pleasure to meet so many of the teams from all across Asia, but primarily Hong Kong, Singapore, KL and Bangkok.
And 🙏to the British 🇬🇧 Embassy for their support, and
@biztradegovuk for their work promoting British companies overseas. Managed to dodge the mega monsoon! 2/
And 🙏to the British 🇬🇧 Embassy for their support, and
@biztradegovuk for their work promoting British companies overseas. Managed to dodge the mega monsoon! 2/
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Agree with this ⬇️
EXCLUSIVE:
Andy Burnham must “take the knife” to public spending in the budget or risk a Liz Truss-style crisis that will “crater” the economy and the government’s popularity, an ally of the prime minister has warned
Andy Haldane, a former chief economist at the Bank of England, said he feared the government would deliver a “mañana budget” that deferred the difficult decisions on public spending and “doesn’t speak to the urgency of now”
In an interview with The Times, he said that Britain was “close to being taxed out and maxed out in terms of borrowing”. He spoke of concerns that the government was failing to grasp how “precarious” the fiscal position was
He said that the government needs to cut the size of the state and reduce taxes if it were to “unleash the animal spirits and generate growth”
Haldane warned Burnham that he cannot “vibe-code” his way to growth, and raised concerns about the gap between the government’s rhetoric and the reality. He said that the government was effectively deferring the “day of reckoning”
He also said that the decision to increase taxes on banks could show that the government lacked the courage to cut public spending. He said the move was “penny wise, pound foolish” and sent a broader economic message that if businesses make profits “the taxman cometh”
Haldane said that while Burnham had the potential to be a “great prime minister” who could serve two terms, the economy was his “blind spot”. He said that the fiscal situation facing Britain was “precarious”
“The penny has not yet fully dropped, including in Downing Street,” he said. “You see that in us having the highest borrowing costs in the G7, despite not having the highest debts and deficits.
“It’s the old Hemingway [Ernest Hemingway, the author] thing, isn’t it? How do you go bankrupt? First slowly, then very quickly. The biggest risk to Andy not transforming Britain, to not serving two terms, to not being seen in the history books as a great prime minister, is not political risk.
“It’s not those who sit behind him. It’s probably not even those who sit opposite him in Westminster. Keir [Starmer] lost the dressing room. Andy’s biggest risk is that he loses the dealing room. And then that’s an even more painful way to go, as Liz Truss would tell you.”
Andy Haldane: PM risks Truss-style crisis if he dodges tough choices
thetimes.com/article/9b12c0…
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Guy Opperman retweeted
The strongest section of Kemi Badenoch's speech so far:
"To those who say “unite the right”... we are not uniting with THAT. I don’t want to live in a country run by people who threaten journalists, call veterans traitors and debate whether my mixed-race children are English.
"I don’t want to explain to my son, when we’re watching our brilliant England team play football, that some people don’t think our black players are English.
"I remember back in the day when Ian Wright and John Barnes were playing - nobody was questioning whether they were English. We certainly didn’t have sitting MPs questioning whether they were English.
"We must not let these people take us backwards. That is not the country we are. I don’t know whether you’ve noticed, but I am black. I am British. I’m proud of my country, I’m proud of our history."
"To those who say “unite the right”... we are not uniting with THAT. I don’t want to live in a country run by people who threaten journalists, call veterans traitors and debate whether my mixed-race children are English.
"I don’t want to explain to my son, when we’re watching our brilliant England team play football, that some people don’t think our black players are English.
"I remember back in the day when Ian Wright and John Barnes were playing - nobody was questioning whether they were English. We certainly didn’t have sitting MPs questioning whether they were English.
"We must not let these people take us backwards. That is not the country we are. I don’t know whether you’ve noticed, but I am black. I am British. I’m proud of my country, I’m proud of our history."
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Probably good news my dog is a fox red Labrador …
🚨 EXCL: Labour minister claims that visions of Britain based on warm ale, pubs, and black labradors are a 'far-Right' fantasy that 'never really existed’
dailymail.com/news/article-1…
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I confess to liking (and supporting/ drinking in) warm ale 🍺, pubs, cricket 🏏& all labradors 🐕.
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Visit #Northumberland ⬇️
🌄 Take in this view
Taken by one of our rangers while carrying out repairs on the Pennine Way path.
Photo taken from Hazely Law near Alwinton.
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Listen and enjoy ⬇️
One of the great @HouseofCommons speeches and v v funny
One of the great @HouseofCommons speeches and v v funny
My favourite Parliamentarian question - The "President of Europe" Speech (sometime during the Brown years)
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Guy Opperman retweeted
The Tory Shadow Chancellor, @griffitha, has more private sector experience than the entire Labour Cabinet….combined.
Wild.
Wild.
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This is a great campaign⬇️
Very clear that summer and Saturday jobs are increasingly hard to get
Very clear that summer and Saturday jobs are increasingly hard to get
My Shadow Cabinet had more business experience before they turned 18 than Andy Burnham’s front bench does today.
Why won’t Labour lift burdensome restrictions that are killing summer jobs?
Conservatives have a plan to save the summer job… then every young person can be more ham Cabinet.
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6 years since we lost the twins.
Went to see them with Zola, and Marina, who is now 2.
We never forget the past …but onwards and upwards 🙏
Went to see them with Zola, and Marina, who is now 2.
We never forget the past …but onwards and upwards 🙏
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Genuinely surprised at this⬇️
12 years experience of being in government teaches you that
1. Government knows that each separate department has literally 10s of problems
2. Ministers / PMs job ultimately is to find solutions & then sell them to Parliament & the wider country 1/
12 years experience of being in government teaches you that
1. Government knows that each separate department has literally 10s of problems
2. Ministers / PMs job ultimately is to find solutions & then sell them to Parliament & the wider country 1/
Yvette Cooper being quite rude about Keir Starmer's governing style in interview with George Osborne, on his podcast
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It is fair to say ministers talk about problems all the time with officials, colleagues, think tanks, voters etc
The test of government is can you fix these problems both in theory and then in practice.
A successful example is @michaelgove reform of education 2010-2014. 2/
The test of government is can you fix these problems both in theory and then in practice.
A successful example is @michaelgove reform of education 2010-2014. 2/
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Guy Opperman retweeted
From today a CDC master trust can pay a wage in retirement. henrytapper.com/2026/08/03/fro… A decade in the making CDC workplace pensions are here. They should provide a retirement wage for millions
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“This life is not a rehearsal.” ⬇️🙏
@mattforde optimism is infectious ✅
If you have not seen his show live do so!
@mattforde optimism is infectious ✅
If you have not seen his show live do so!
Being alive is great isn’t it
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