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  • Jim Ratcliffe backs Tory pledge to slash net zero tax

    Politics

    Sir Jim Ratcliffe has joined a number of manufacturing bosses in support of a Tory pledge to axe carbon taxes levied through a trading scheme critical to the government’s net zero efforts.  In a joint release between the Conservatives plus the Ineos chief and other industry bosses, the Kemi Badenoch’s party said it would save [...]

    Manchester United minority owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos has announced a “significant strategic investment” into premium apparel brand Castore.
  • Britain does not have to accept industrial decline

    Opinion

    Britain's industrial decline was not inevitable. It's time to revive Britain's industrial economy as a national priority, writes Rian Chad Whitton.

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  • Sir Jim Ratcliffe: Act now or five million jobs will be lost

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    Sir Jim Ratcliffe has called on Europe’s leaders to save the continent’s chemicals industry or risk losing millions of jobs. The founder and chairman of Ineos has urged politicians to make an “eleventh-hour intervention” at what he has described as a “moment of reckoning” for the industry. Sir Jim, who is also known as a [...]

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  • GB Energy given five years to turn a profit

    November 20, 2024

    The boss of Great British Energy has been given a five-year target for Labour’s flagship state-owned energy company to become “profitable”, MPs have been told. Juergen Maier, who was appointed chairman of GB Energy in June, was asked at the Commons energy security and net zero committee whether he had a timeline on profitability. He [...]

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