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Some of Britain’s biggest companies worth a combined £600 billion could quit the London Stock Exchange and move to Wall Street, sparking fresh fears for the City’s future.Concerns grew after pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca revealed plans to take out a direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange.As many as ten other major firms with large American operations and investor bases could follow suit, investment platform AJ Bell has warned.Experts say such a shift would deal a heavy blow to London’s reputation as a world-leading financial hub and risk triggering a wider exodus of blue-chip companies.The firms under scrutiny include energy…

When a political party gathers for its annual conference, the host city (or at least the political and security bubble that surrounds the conference centre) becomes home to feverish and partisan political chat.What is different about the next few days is Manchester is also a city in mourning after the horrific attack on Thursday.There is, of course, still sharp political argument here but the emotional and practical backdrop is one of grief, fear and an ongoing police investigation.The flags outside the conference centre fly at half mast.A community just a few miles from here, but also all over the UK,…

It was a telephone call that I dreaded getting again.A voice at the other end of the line saying there’s somebody else in sport, Lewis Moody, who has been diagnosed with motor neurone disease. Your heart sinks. You go cold. It’s still really jarring and shocking.I visited Lewis to speak to him at his family home, in a beautiful village just outside Bath, after a mutual friend had reached out to say he wanted to talk about his diagnosis.Lewis wanted to say something once on his terms. So then everybody would know all at once, and it wouldn’t be a…

Drivers have turned their heads away from driverless cars, despite Labour’s ambition to put them on UK roads within the next two years. It comes after a survey found that 66 per cent of Britons hold a negative opinion of self-driving vehicles, while a staggering 84 per cent said they would not buy one. Now experts have raised concerns about whether the public is ready to embrace the Government’s timeline for introducing autonomous transport, with pilot schemes for driverless taxis and buses set to begin in spring 2026. According to the survey, only 12 per cent of respondents expressed a…

Peter, whose face we have hidden in order to protect his identity, said fraudsters have left him in debt “possibly into the thousands”A disabled man has said he felt helpless and suicidal after fraudsters used his identity to claim benefits.Peter, whose name has been changed to protect his identity, has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and epilepsy.The 44-year-old’s bank cards, driving licence and phone were taken when he was attacked and robbed last year. Since then, his identity appears to have been misused.”It’s been so bad I’ve thought about taking my own life. I’m just existing, not living, I just wanted…

Although Dan James has been ruled out of this international window through injury, three of his team-mates started in Leeds United’s 2-1 home loss to Tottenham Hotspur in Saturday’s early Premier League kick-off. Goalkeeper Karl Darlow, defender Joe Rodon and midfielder Ethan Ampadu played the whole game, although Leeds skipper Ampadu did endure a nervous moment when VAR took a long look at his challenge on Pedro Porro that in the end only merited a yellow card. Spurs winger Brennan Johnson only got a run-out for the eight minutes of added time, while defender Ben Davies was an unused substitute.Although…

The terrorist behind the Manchester synagogue attack groomed multiple women on dating apps and previously expressed interest in joining the Islamic State, it has been revealed. Jihad al-Shamie, 35, is believed to have been obsessed with Islamic dating apps and was living with his mother following a divorce from his wife, who he cheated on. According to an ex-partner, the terrorist sent abusive messages, pushed her to watch “extreme” videos and married a British NHS nurse who converted to Islam before the relationship with his wife ended. The Syrian-born attacker married the Briton in a secret Islamic wedding behind his…

James Cleverly has accused Nigel Farage of being a “socialist” as the Shadow Housing Secretary launched a furious tirade against the Reform UK leader.Mr Cleverly labelled Mr Farage a “socialist” as he drew boos from a packed crowd at the Institute for Economic Affairs’s evening drinks on Sunday.Mr Cleverly said: “It is more important now than at any time that I can remember, because the so-called champions of the right, led by one Nigel Farage.”The second that he thinks there are more votes to be had in disillusioned blue-collar workers, who want state subsidies and state handouts, his Thatcherite, Reaganite…

Matt Chorley5 Live presenterPA MediaLouis Armstrong had all of it in the world. The Beautiful South needed a little more. For Kemi Badenoch, and her 118 MPs, time is also on their minds.The Conservative leader believes she needs more time, to turn around her party from its historic drubbing in last year’s general election.Yet as time’s gone on, she’s gone further down in the polls.”I didn’t say it would be easy,” she told Tory members on Sunday. “And I didn’t say it would be quick.”For her MPs – and I’ve contacted almost all of them for my Radio 5 Live…

With fan fury intensifying in the aftermath of an embarrassing Champions League play-off exit, Martin vowed to fight on as Rangers boss.And despite going a fourth straight league game without a win, a goalless draw with Old Firm rivals Celtic provided the head coach with crumbs of hope.However, it proved to be a false dawn. In their next game, high-flying Hearts romped to a 2-0 victory at a stormy Ibrox, with clouds conjured so thick that even a perfunctory League Cup quarter-final win over Hibs could not stop the rumbles of discontent amid more fan protests.Defeat to a bang average…