The chances that Brexit will be cancelled are now greater than the chances Britain will leave the European Union without a deal, according to economists in a Reuters poll, who again pushed back their expectations for when the Bank of England will raise interest rates.

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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has said auditing and consultancy services should be entirely separate but has stopped short of calling for the Big Four accountancy firms to be broken up.

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Sasja Beslik, head harge of sustainable finance at Nordea Bank’, the Extinction Rebellion protests across 80 cities this week were “just the beginning” and said people who were worried about climate change did not feel that had many other “tools” at their disposal, he said.