{"id":373938,"date":"2025-08-26T03:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T03:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/373938\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T03:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T03:28:11","slug":"reform-uk-cozies-up-with-the-big-boys-of-the-city-behind-closed-doors-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/373938\/","title":{"rendered":"Reform UK cozies up with the \u2018big boys of the City\u2019 behind closed doors \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Not easy being green<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Still, the party\u2019s strong anti-renewables stance is also making some across the City nervous, given the long-term plans of financial firms and the billions they have pumped into the sector.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bernard Fairman, executive chair of FTSE 250 investment firm Foresight Group, said he was set to meet with Tice imminently, having previously met Rupert Lowe (who is no longer a member of the party and now sits as an independent MP).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason I\u2019m seeing [Tice] is he sent a letter out to people like me, saying you manage lots of renewable energy assets \u2026 we\u2019re against that and we may not stand behind the contracts&#8221; that the government has already signed, Fairman said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the one thing that markets hate is uncertainty. The rotating carousel of Reform MPs, coupled with the potential risks that come with a brand-new party set up only six years ago, means some feel more concern than opportunity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a risk in the background at the moment,\u201d said Anna Rosenberg, head of geopolitics at Amundi. \u201cThere\u2019s so many more pressing short-term issues that are here already.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, the rise of Reform isn\u2019t without precedent. Similar political waves have occurred across Europe, without causing a complete fracturing between the government and the financial industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not easy being green\u00a0 Still, the party\u2019s strong anti-renewables stance is also making some across the City nervous,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[3427,331,748,6725,55493,32,33,393,474,7558,4884,806,478,1197,2199,2441,384,1144,5442,8721,48,67753,712,1199,3322,1200,1201,16,15,49,1764],"class_list":["post-373938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","category-united-kingdom","tag-banking","tag-banks","tag-britain","tag-central-banks","tag-digital-currencies","tag-donald-trump","tag-elections","tag-england","tag-finance","tag-financial-services","tag-great-britain","tag-industry","tag-interest-rates","tag-investment","tag-italy","tag-markets","tag-nigel-farage","tag-northern-ireland","tag-renewable-energy","tag-richard-tice","tag-rights","tag-rupert-lowe","tag-scotland","tag-services","tag-startups","tag-tax","tag-trade","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-wales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115092947262967378","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}