🚨 Rather chuffed to share I’m now @TheSun’s Business Affairs Editor 🗞️ I’ll be supporting @Frances_Ivens day in day out to help drive our business and consumer affairs coverage across all Sun platforms - as well as edit our Sun Money Daily page in print Tues-Sat. Four years in and it keeps getting better 📈 Tips to: James.Flanders@thesun.co.uk

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On the day America celebrated the IPO of its biggest space company, Britain found out its government is banning underfloor heating. The decline of our country is not inevitable, it is the choice of the rotten political class.

Delighted to have handed the reins of today’s @TheSun #SunMoney to @g__j, CEO of @OctopusEnergy 🐙 His verdict on the energy price cap rise? “SHOCK AND AWFUL TAX” - plus his best tips to cut your bills, from thermostats to smart tariffs. Read it in today’s paper 👉 p41

The Princess of Wales shares an emotional moment with Claire Lorente, 30, who rings the bell to signal the end of her cancer treatment, at The Christie centre in Manchester

BREAKING: The annual cost of the NEETs crisis to the British economy is an eye-bleeding £125billion, according to the Milburn report Story from @martinabettt thesun.co.uk/news/39233832/b…

Number of NEET youngsters - not in work, education, employment - has now surpassed 1 MILLION Story by @JamesFlanderss thesun.co.uk/money/39238680/…

Excl - Alan Milburn reveals his report finds govt spends TWENTY FIVE times as much on benefits for young people as helping them find work - tells us it’s ‘shameful’

EXCL: More than 1.28million young Brits are now locked out of work and full-time education, with nearly a million confirmed as NEET – not in education, employment or training. At the same time Universal Credit and PIP claims are at an all-time high for under-24s. Our report comes just days away from Alan Milburn’s interim report on barriers to work. He’s already called it a “national crisis” and a “social disaster”. But business leaders say it’s too little too late, blaming Labour’s tax hikes for killing Gen Z’s chances of getting work. thesun.co.uk/money/39191246/…

Love your country so much you doubled down on threshold freezes and tax hikes. Very ‘treating people with respect’ of you…

"I LOVE OUR COUNTRY...AND ONE OF THE THINGS I LOVE IS GOOD MANNERS" Chancellor Rachel Reeves confronts an angry heckler moments ago in a petrol station in Leeds

EXCL: Lloyds Banking Group is poised to axe the Halifax brand within months - sounding the death knell for one of Britain’s most recognised names on the high street after 173 years. thesun.co.uk/money/39140199/…

Wes Streeting wants to take Britain back into the EU. His entire party got just 9 million votes in 2024. 17.4 million people voted for Brexit. Labour does not understand Great Britain or the public mood.

British politics will reach a new reductio ad absurdum in the Makerfield by election: Vote Labour to destroy the sitting Labour Prime Minister. Support Labour PM Starmer but NOT voting Labour. We are having a by-election not because there’s any demand or need in the national interest but entirely to suit the convenience of the byzantine politics of the ruling party and the political pygmies in whose interest it is run. We are no longer a serious nation. No wonder the bond markets are squiffy.

Some corrections: You inherited 2% inflation. It doubled in 12 months after you became Chancellor. It is still 50% above the rate you inherited and 50% above target. It should fall to target 2% this summer. So two years to get back to where you started! What’s to boast about that? Interest rates have been falling everywhere. UK cuts, which you don’t control, have been fewer and smaller because of your inflation record. We still have highest interest rate in G7. The Bank has made some cuts for the simple reason the economy is flat on its back. Well done. Borrowing is slowly falling from a very high base. Almost six years after the pandemic-induced recession, we’re still borrowing around 4% GDP. And borrowing costs are the highest in the G7. Retail sales are up in recent months. We’ll see how long that’s sustained. But the hospitality and construction industries are in crisis. Plus our massive services sector is stagnant. UK fastest G7 economy? That’s simply a bare-faced lie. We grew by 0.1% in Q3 2025; and another 0.1% in Q4. End of.

EXCL AO founder John Roberts launches a blistering attack on Labour - saying Britain is “broken”, profit is treated like a “dirty word” and Sir Keir Starmer should quit. The retail kingpin tells @TheSun why the Government is failing business - and how he’d “fix Britain”. thesun.co.uk/money/39087999/…

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I carry no can for Starmer. But Rayner's statement demonstrates how little she understands the needs of the country. Growth is key. And yanking up the minimum wage for a business sector that's already wilting under NI increases and rising inflation, shows a lack of reality.