In the news, Q1 2026

Media roundup

In broadcast, our Head of Policy and Advocacy, Simon Youel, appeared on Sky News to talk about the parallels between Peter Mandelson’s lobbying advice to JPMorgan while a minister and the lobbying we saw from banks in the build-up to the latest Autumn Budget, pushing back against Positive Money and others’ calls for a windfall tax on their profits.

In print, our commentary has appeared in stories for Bloomberg and The Telegraph, our latest analysis of bank lending data appeared in Politico’s Pro Financial Services newsletter, our credit policy paper featured in Renews, and our Head of Campaigns and Communications wrote an op-ed for LBC, explaining why headline inflation figures are misleading.