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☆ Barclays CEO says difference in Labour and Conservative economic policy is 'fairly minimal'
  + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Elliot Smith | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
LIVERPOOL, U.K. - Oct. 11, 2023: Britain's main opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer applauds a speaker the final day of the annual Labour Party conference in Liverpool, northwest England, on October 11, 2023. Paul Ellis | Afp | Getty ImagesPolitical risk in the U.K. is "far less than it's ever been" as the difference between the ruling Conservative Party and main opposition Labour on economic policy is "fairly minimal," Barclays CEO C.S. The U.K. is set to hold a General Election later this year, and the latest polling consistently suggests a landslide Labour victory, bringing an end to fourteen years of Conservative rule. "I think the political risk in the U.K. is far less than it's ever been," Venkatakrishnan told CNBC at WEF. The difference in economic policies between the two, and they're both striving to say so, are fairly minimal," he said, referencing two former British leaders.
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☆ Factbox: A history of UK currency crises and crashes
  + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
The currency fell as low $1.0327 at one point. read more It has fallen almost 8% since Thursday and 21% since the start of the year, a pace drawing comparisons with the currency crises that have marked Britain’s post-war history. Britain also used some creative accounting to hide the extent of its foreign exchange reserves losses, such as in a 12.5 billion pound "secret negative forward book". Against a soaring U.S. currency swelled by global trade imbalances, parity with the dollar - once unthinkable - became a real possibility. A briefing to the media in January 1985 from Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s press secretary, intended to reassure financial markets, backfired badly.
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