> Reform UK, set up by Farage in 2016, counts four MPs in Westminster. Its flagship policies include pledging to cap the number of migrants coming to the U.K. and implementing vast tax cuts.
>But other than strongly pro-crypto policies, the party hasn’t made its view on financial services clear, and the City sees the chance to influence a broadly blank slate as too tempting to ignore.
>Still, financial institutions, which are happy so far with what they’re getting from the Labour government, are cautious to admit they’re making a deal with the devil.
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>Still, the party’s strong anti-renewables stance is also making some across the City nervous, given the long-term plans of financial firms and the billions they have pumped into the sector.
>Bernard Fairman, executive chair of FTSE 250 investment firm Foresight Group, said he was set to meet with Tice imminently, having previously met Rupert Lowe (who is no longer a member of the party and now sits as an independent MP).
>“The reason I’m seeing [Tice] is he sent a letter out to people like me, saying you manage lots of renewable energy assets … we’re against that and we may not stand behind the contracts” that the government has already signed, Fairman said.
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> Reform UK, set up by Farage in 2016, counts four MPs in Westminster. Its flagship policies include pledging to cap the number of migrants coming to the U.K. and implementing vast tax cuts.
>But other than strongly pro-crypto policies, the party hasn’t made its view on financial services clear, and the City sees the chance to influence a broadly blank slate as too tempting to ignore.
>Still, financial institutions, which are happy so far with what they’re getting from the Labour government, are cautious to admit they’re making a deal with the devil.
[…]
>Still, the party’s strong anti-renewables stance is also making some across the City nervous, given the long-term plans of financial firms and the billions they have pumped into the sector.
>Bernard Fairman, executive chair of FTSE 250 investment firm Foresight Group, said he was set to meet with Tice imminently, having previously met Rupert Lowe (who is no longer a member of the party and now sits as an independent MP).
>“The reason I’m seeing [Tice] is he sent a letter out to people like me, saying you manage lots of renewable energy assets … we’re against that and we may not stand behind the contracts” that the government has already signed, Fairman said.