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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
Retail

Amazon trails behind in latest U.K. compliance test and is threatened with investigation over poor supplier treatment

By Kimberley Mannion and Bloomberg
July 12, 2024
Victory could allow Starmer to build up an early feel-good narrative that will help in what is expected to be a brief honeymoon period given the scale of problems Starmer has inherited.
Success

England’s men’s football win could boost the new prime minister

By Joe Mayes and Bloomberg
July 12, 2024
Naviglio Grande canal in Milan city, Italy, a popular tourist area, on dramatic sunset
Finance

The U.K. has ‘far more millionaires than it deserves’ and will watch 500,000 flee to the likes of Italy and Spain by 2028, UBS says

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July 11, 2024
Looking up through a street level sculpture amidst the giant glass architectural towers including the Leadenhall building on the left and 22 Bishopsgate on the right at night in the City of London on 14th November 2022 in London, United Kingdom. The City of London is a city, ceremonial county and local government district that contains the primary central business district CBD of London. The City of London is widely referred to simply as the City is also colloquially known as the Square Mile. Over the last decade or so the architecture of the City has grown upwards with skyscrapers filling the now cluttered skyline, and increasing its scale upwards with glass towers. (photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images)
Finance

U.K. faces highest level of financial distress in Europe with corporate deleveraging at its peak since 2008

By Libby Cherry and Bloomberg
July 11, 2024
Shot of two business persons filling in paperwork in an office. Businessman and businesswoman signing a document in board room.
Finance

Deutsche Bank and HSBC are winning Europe’s AI talent war as the U.K. strikes back against the U.S.

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July 11, 2024
London symbols with BIG BEN and red Phone Booths in England, UK.
Finance

Wages in the U.K. are growing twice as fast as Europe and the U.S. thanks to one simple policy

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July 10, 2024
James Dyson speaking with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show
Tech

Dyson to axe a third of its U.K. workforce as CEO Hanno Kirner warns the vacuum giant needs to be ‘prepared for the future’

By Yazhou Sun and Bloomberg
July 9, 2024
Hanushka-Toni-Sellier-The-Good-Life
Success

Millennial director quit her job in Monaco to launch a second-hand store with her mom—now she sells designer bags and bling at $3,200 a pop and treats her husband to Audemars Piguet

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July 9, 2024
Terry Smith of Fundsmith sits on a table in a skyscraper verlooking the Gherkin in London.
Finance

The man dubbed ‘Britain’s Warren Buffett’ blames falling vet visits—not his refusal to back Nvidia—for poor performance of U.K.’s biggest fund

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July 9, 2024
London, United Kingdom. Minister for Prisons, Parole and Probation, James Timpson OBE, poses for a photograph following their appointment to Cabinet by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in 10 Downing Street.
Politics

The U.K.’s newest prisons minister is a multimillion-dollar key-cutting heir known for hiring hundreds of ex-offenders

By
July 9, 2024
‘Part-time Prime Minister’? Britain’s new PM says he won’t work past 6 p.m. on Fridays—and experts praise healthy working standards
Lifestyle

‘Part-time Prime Minister’? Britain’s new PM says he won’t work past 6 p.m. on Fridays—and experts praise healthy working standards

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July 8, 2024
FILE: An Asda logo sits on an employee's jacket as he works near a display of tinned food inside an Asda supermarket, the U.K. retail arm of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., in Watford, U.K., on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013. U.K. grocer J Sainsbury Plc plans to buy Walmart Inc.s Asda in a 7.3 billion-pound ($10 billion) deal that would transform the countrys supermarket industry and leave the U.S. retailer as the combined companys biggest shareholder. Our editors select the best archive images of the two supermarket chains.
Success

Asda is scrapping its ‘physically exhausting’ 4-day workweek, revealing a critical factor in why it can fail

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July 8, 2024
Lewis Goodall (L), Jon Sopel and Emily Maitlis attend The British Podcast Awards 2023.
Tech

These Podcasters won the U.K. General Election, snapping up multi-million dollar deals and sell-out shows

By Alex Wood Morton and Ryan Hogg
July 6, 2024
BlackRock Ahead Of Earnings Figures
Finance

The U.K.’s latest billionaire is sharing $650 million with his employees after selling his data company to BlackRock

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July 5, 2024
Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party and U.K.'s new prime minister.
Politics

What will Labour do? A guide to Starmer’s 100-day action plan and his strategy for making the U.K. great again

By Ellen Milligan, Ailbhe Rea and Bloomberg
July 5, 2024

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