Brendan Scott

📡Work & Life News 🇬🇧: I'm heading to London in April to be Bloomberg's managing editor for UK Economics and Government They told me it would be a nice, quiet posting after 10 years covering China @business/@economics/@politics/@BloombergUK

@michaelkruse @ChrisCillizza To be fair, they lived through a very similar thing just four years ago.

@ChrisCillizza Nearly four in five people are worn out by something they’re barely paying attention to?

Nope!

Please join me in congratulating Alex Wickham (@alexwickham) on his appointment as Bloomberg's Westminster political editor bloomberg.com/authors/AV1oEP…

Keir Starmer's got to win at least 125 seats to become Britain's next PM. @EamonFarhat and @elashton dive deep into the data to show why he's running the campaign he is. bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

To get back into power after 14 years in opposition, the UK Labour Party has to win over voters who are older, richer, and more likely to be White trib.al/QcrAKSp

Sharing a Sunak brew with the latte-sipping establishment elite in Manchester #ToryPartyConference bloomberg.com/news/articles/… @bloomberg @RenewableUK

NEW: Advisers to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt are increasingly concerned the Bank of England risks raising interest rates too much in the coming months, potentially pushing the UK into an unnecessary recession Story with @PhilAldrick @Joe_Mayes >> bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

NEW: @BloombergUK Saturday read — Tories tell Sunak to radically change his strategy and Cabinet after by-election defeats, not just double down on his 5 pledges — call for big reshuffle and new retail policies at conference on tax, net zero, migration bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

NEW: @BloombergUK Saturday read — our survey of economists predicts inflation will drop half a percentage point to 8.2% when June data is released on Wednesday — but govt officials are very cautious as forecasts have undershot for months bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

++ China will be at the core of talks at the upcoming G7 summit, where leaders are mulling to announce ‘Economic Coercion’ ++ All here, by ⁦@alexwickham⁩ ⁦@AlbertoNardelli⁩ ⁦@jendeben⁩ 👇🏻 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Local elections tell us something about the national mood. But what? @LucyGJWhite asked @robfordmancs and @ProfRosieCamp to decode what Thursday's votes mean for Sunak and Starmer bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-…

NEW: The most senior civil servants in the UK Business Department intervened to protect their staff after officials raised concerns about what they described as former minister Alok Sharma’s volatile and intimidating behavior bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

NEW: @BloombergUK Saturday read Rishi Sunak’s allies say he achieved Job 1 of his premiership in his first 6 months: stabilising the Tories and starting to close the polls But they warn Job 2 in the next 6 months is far harder: avoiding getting stuck bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

NEW: @BloombergUK Saturday read on the Raab fallout Civil servants are considering filing formal bullying complaints against two more ministers Ministers are thinking back over every cross word or criticism they’ve uttered to officials, a minister says bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

NEW: As Westminster braces for a report into Dominic Raab's treatment of staff, we reveal new bullying allegations against ex-Cabinet Minister Alok Sharma. Four senior officials who worked closely with Sharma between 2020 + 2022 spoke to @BloombergUK bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The CBI scandal has pushed the lobby group into an existential crisis - with members questioning if it really provides value for money. Vince Cable says he clashed with the CBI over women on boards and high pay as biz secretary. With ⁦@Joe_Mayes⁩ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

NEW: @BloombergUK Saturday read Rishi Sunak is considering cutting inheritance tax at the next election, according to people familiar Senior Tories think this could be the secret weapon to close the polls bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

China's incredible shrinking premier bloomberg.com/news/articles/… @LucilleLiu/@bpolitics

It's only becoming harder to speak to any leadership in China. Two Sessions used to be rare chance to doorstop top leaders. After yesterday's plenary, literally had minutes to speak to delegates as they were walking out, majority refused (or some literally ran away)

Personal news klaxon 📣: Today was my first day as managing editor for the absolutely fabulous @business commodities and energy team in Asia. Sad to leave my @opinion colleagues, but excited to be back in news at this incredible time!