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“Sometimes we get we get caught up in talking about why we need to include people from the North East, or people from working-class backgrounds, for the ‘sake of the arts’, but voices from working-class backgrounds have always enriched culture for the better because they have different stories to tell.”

The price the NHS pays for medicines will need to rise to stop a wave of pharmaceutical investment leaving the UK, science minister Patrick Vallance has said. His comments follow several recent announcements from some of the world’s largest drug companies either pausing or scrapping UK projects. Critics in the sector say low prices for…

Aliev, who had worked in finance before doing her MBA, was wary of first impressions at the firm. “If you judge a book by its cover, it’s very easy to be like ‘oh, young girl, Wall Street background, coming in here and telling me what to do’… I was really conscious about that,” she says….

Simon JackBusiness editor and Michael Sheils McNamee Watch: ‘I’m more worried than others about stock market fall’, says JP Morgan boss There is a higher risk of a serious fall in US stocks than is currently being reflected in the market, the head of JP Morgan has told the BBC. Jamie Dimon, who leads America’s…