How Help to Buy broke the housing market
Rishi Sunak is reportedly planning to bring back a policy which critics say contributed to the housing crisis.
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Emma Haslett
Emma Haslett is associate editor, business, at the New Statesman. She has written on topics including the energy crisis and recession, and interviews business leaders.
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The former Nissan executive and godfather of the electric car, says the UK will have no auto industry without…
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Bad weather and energy prices are at fault but the effects of Brexit, both direct and indirect, are also…
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