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The fireworks covers the London Horizon and Big Ben immediately after the north January 1, 2025.
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London, value in the Crown of Economics and National Culture, recently took a little beating, with A big business that seeks to expand to another placeWorkers looking for more affordable places for life and a flock of millionaires running around the city.
The new tax regime focused on the London Rich London Status based on London pushed approximately 10,000 millionaires to escape the city in 2024 Looking for safer shelter for their cash. To obtain nons, high costs Data showsBecause remain very expensive.
London pride as a business center has also been honored in recent years when home firms looked elsewhere to start themselves or expand, increasingly looking for IPO abroad Either move the main list from the UK
So, is all the doom and the gloom for great smoke? Not necessarily.
While the streets may not be laid in gold, there is still an overwhelming attraction in London for millions looking for work, studying and playing, It is estimated by 20 million tourists who visit the city in 2023.
CNBC asked several British analysts for their thoughts about whether the city is on the trajectory down, or just experiencing some irregularities on the road. That’s what they had to say.
City in decline?
The crown in London slips “years” when it comes to its attractiveness and accessibility for ordinary people, Bill Blaine, a market strategist, a former investment banker and author of the “Morning Black Morning”.
He said that doing business in the capital “just not pleasant”, but the atmosphere in the wealthy London city and the Canary -Vari, the capital of financial areas, even worse.
“In the city, in Canary Wharf, there is no noise we had before,” Blaine said, complaining that “how quickly London becomes relevant.”
“Do you call me the only significant investment bank in the UK? Do you call me the only significant British private capital company? All of them are great American firms,” Blain said.
On April 8, 2025, workers crossed the interchange near the Bank of England in London.
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“When it comes to banks, you have Europeans, French and Germans who are just on the skin of the teeth. But there is nothing left in the UK, and today they look around, but they are all, but they are all insurance classes, and that they are not investment bankers of the previous generation. My generation was the last.
Blaine has accused excessive regulation of the city’s death, believing that “the number of people involved in preservation and regulation and form, which significantly overcome the number on the finance line.”
Blaine said she believed she lost her global reputation for a relatively stable political institution, with six prime ministers over the past 10 yearsAnd that he was also targeted as a result of a stormy departure from the European Union five years ago.
The protesters are protesting outside the parliament against Brexit on the fourth anniversary of the UK’s official departure from the European Union in London, January 31, 2024.
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After winning the landslides last year, the current labor government and the finance minister Rachel Reivz turned out Under heavy pressure to follow self -imposed debt and borrowing rulesTrying to increase public expenses and promote this necessary growth.
“In the past, you could look at the UK and say, yes, this is no longer the biggest economy in the world, but it is usually stable in (conditions) competence, so you put into it. But these things are questioned, and this is a great risk to the UK,” Blaine said.
Not all death and gloom
Barrett Cupilian, the British Chief Economist in PWC, sought to note that not all gloomy and death are in the capital.
“If I focus on the basics that do London, London. The first thing is that the rule, and then you have all the intangibles such as history, culture, diversity, talent, innovation, regulation, time zone, important, infrastructure, etc. These things have not changed in the last few years, ”Cpelian CNBC said on Wednesday.
“We see that there is a quiet, stable, soft infrastructure in London, and the enterprises are still here, large enterprises in London, from the quality of regulation,” he said. Cupilian defended London’s status as a financial services center, but said he was also adapting and developing.
“One of the things that happen in the background is that our export exports are stagnant, partly from the trading conditions we find, tariffs and that you have … But the export of services is growing quite much, and many are managed by business services,” he said.
“We always thought that FS (Financial Services) was a crown value in London, and this, but in fact, in terms of growth rate, if you look at the export part of the book, largely managing business services,” he said.
Canary Wharf saw from Greenwich Park, London.
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PWC in conjunction with the Demos Pollster produces Annual “good growth for cities” Which measures the economic well -being of British cities and looks beyond economic production, given factors such as jobs, profits, health, skills and the balance of working life.
In 2024, it was found that London was expected to see strong economic growth in 2025, it compared much less profitable to other British cities in terms of vitality factors. This includes the lack of affordable housing and squeaky transport infrastructure – as anyone on a hot, dirty and tight central line on morning work will testify.
No Londonian likes a crowded pipe train at rush hour. Here is the central line during a typical morning fare.
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“This is a story about the rest of the countries, but how about the rest of the world?” Cupelian noted, noting that “there is always intense competition between the great metropolitanities of the world” such as New York, Paris, Singapore, Beijing and Tokyo.
“I think London feels this competition at a much more intense level,” said Cupilian, and the city needs to look at her colleagues and on his own, with a more critical view to find out what it can do better.
The purpose of “targeted interventions” rather than “complete rethinking”, he said that London is well supplied to continue to attract talented, qualified labor, enterprises and growth.
“Enterprises are still here, large enterprises located in London because of the quality of regulation. I think this is one of the main calls of London.
