In the news, July 2025

Our head of campaigns, Hannah Dewhirst, discussed the Chancellor's Mansion House speech with Gareth Barlow on Sky News

The Guardian covered our response to the loosening of mortgage lending rules and general deregulation announced in the Chancellor's Mansion House speech. They also cited our bank lending analysis when warning against City deregulation, and we commented on their story about Nationwide trying to hike it's CEO's pay by millions of pounds.

Our response to the Mansion House speech/Financial Sector Growth and Competitiveness Strategy was Roxhill Media's press release of the day, and the comments pertaining to the government's scrapping of the UK's Green Taxonomy were used by Edie and Environmental Finance.

We commented on a story in The Times arguing that high-street banks, not the Bank of England, are to blame for the poor returns savers are seeing on their money.

Our petition to stop the Chancellor lowering the tax-free threshold for Cash ISAs was the subject of a story in The Express.

Our latest windfall tax figures were covered in The Mirror (online and in print), City AM and Yahoo Finance.

New Economy Brief shared our blog on the recent UN Financing for Development conference in Seville and the BRICs Summit in Rio de Janeiro in their digest.

Canary cited our landlord wealth research, our letter from 50 experts warning against City deregulation, and our previous windfall tax figures