Tory leadership candidate JeremyHunt has said he would willingly tell people whose companies went bust after a no-deal Brexit that their sacrifice had been necessary.
He said he would set aside a £6bn pound war chest to protect fishing and farming, and prepare an emergency budget to cut taxes under plans designed to get Britain ready for a dramatic no-deal Brexit.
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Corporate borrowing poses a danger to the global financial system and could trigger a crisis in the same way US sub-prime mortgages sparked the 2008 banking crash, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has warned.
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Almost 40% of PwC’s newly promoted UK equity partners are women compared to only 20% last year, as the Big Four consulting firms try to boost the number of women in senior roles and narrow their gender pay gap.