Jonathan Prynn is the Evening Standard’s award winning Associate Editor, Business, covering a huge range of news stories from property, retail and the economy, to restaurants and travel. He has previously worked at The Times and the Sunday Telegraph and has lived in London since the late Eighties with spells in Islington, Wandsworth, Holland Park and Hammersmith....
Jonathan Prynn is the Evening Standard’s award winning Associate Editor, Business, covering a huge range of news stories from property, retail and the economy, to restaurants and travel. He has previously worked at The Times and the Sunday Telegraph and has lived in London since the late Eighties with spells in Islington, Wandsworth, Holland Park and Hammersmith.
UK has already hit ‘stage three’ of a property downturn
The PM is still extolling benefits of 95% mortgages turning generation rent to generation buy
Car sales fall by a quarter but electric vehicles charge ahead
Trade body says registrations tumbled 24.3% to 140,958 last month
Glass ceiling still firmly in place in the C-suite
The boys club of exective renumeration rolls on with women left far behind
Top women directors are paid 74% less than men
Emma Walmsley is only woman in top 50 best paid Footsie directors
Top of central London property market hit by foreign buyer no show
London estate agency Savills says prime buyer bounceback slower than expected
Allen & Overy freezes newly qualified lawyers’ pay at £107,500
Magic Circle firm says decision was taken because of “challenging economic conditions.”
London house prices hit record high but signs of a slowdown on horizon
Price growth continues to show signs of slowing amid “perfect storm” of record inflation, rising rates and the cost of living crisis.
West End boss to make the City of London a new leisure destination
New West End Company marketing chief moves east to lead “Destination City” initiative
Fuel retailers are riding for a fall by raising prices
Barrel of Brent Crude dropped $10 last week on fears of global recession
Ofgem reveals £21bn grid overhaul to cut down bills in ‘long term’
Proposals are aimed at upping capacity and resilience and to pave way for ‘net zero’
Heathrow boss warns CAA plan will make the airport “worse”
But Virgin Atlantic calls for airport fees to be even lower
Leaving London out of levelling up brings UK down
Capital receives 42p per capita from Community Renewal Fund compared with £3.79 for East Midlands
Voters count cost of Brexit six years after Leave ballot
Voters in Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton could give Boris Johnson a bloody nose today
Sunak forced to borrow yet more as inflation soars and growth falters
Debt interest payments have surged by 70% compared with last year for the Chancellor
Charting a grim historical note as inflation tops 9%
Last time inflation was this high Tight Fit topped hit parade with ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’
Capital’s top housebuilder sees demand rebound but warns on supply
Flight from the capital by home buyers ‘has not materialised’
M&S furious at Gove over Marble Arch store ruling
Levelling Up Secretary “calls in” application after row over carbon emissions
Energy bills to hit record £3,000 high
Wholesale prices spike again as Ukraine war shows no sign of ending
£120m and counting: what strikes will cost London
The biggest shutdown of the national rail network since 1989
Hospitality firms despair at slump in bookings on first day of strikes
Rail and Tube action has sent bookings crashing by up to 50% or more