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Tuesday newspaper round-up: Airbus, Boden, Amazon

(Sharecast News) - Alison Rose, the former chief executive of NatWest, has taken a job as an adviser to one of the UK's top law firms as she tries to return to the City after a career-damaging row with Nigel Farage last year. Rose is joining Mishcon de Reya as a diversity and inclusion adviser, a role that will involve mentoring some of the firm's partners. She will also work closely with the equity, diversity and inclusion committee at the firm, which is known for having represented Diana, Princess of Wales during her divorce. - Guardian

The online gambling company Sky Betting & Gaming has been reprimanded by the data regulator for unlawfully sharing customers' information with advertising companies that could then target those users with personalised marketing. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said it had investigated Bonne Terre Ltd, trading as Sky Betting & Gaming, after a complaint by the campaign group Clean Up Gambling. - Guardian

Airbus is preparing to revive plans for a new helicopter factory in the UK as part of its attempt to secure a £1bn contract from the Ministry of Defence (MoD). The manufacturing giant has indicated it could proceed with the plant after reversing its decision to pull out of the bidding to replace the RAF's Puma helicopter fleet last month. At the time of its withdrawal, Airbus said the terms of the MoD's tender weren't sufficiently attractive for it to proceed. - Telegraph

"I made a series of mistakes and felt like a fool," the boss of Boden has admitted after his preppy British fashion brand sank further into the red last year. Losses at the London-based clothing and lifestyle retailer widened to £9.4 million in the 12 months to the end of December, compared with a loss of £3.9 million in the previous year. - The Times

Amazon employees have been told to return to working from the office five days a week from the start of next year, as the giant online retailer reverses a host of pandemic-era policies. Hot-desking will be scrapped in offices which were previously designed to have allocated desks for individuals. Layers of management will be removed to cut back on unnecessary meetings. - The Times

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(Sharecast News) - MPs have launched an inquiry into the role and performance of the Office for Budget Responsibility. The all-party Commons Treasury committee will spend until the end of next month investigating the independent agency's forecasting performance and impartiality. The panel will consider whether reforms are needed 15 years after the OBR was set up by George Osborne when he was Tory chancellor. - Guardian
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(Sharecast News) - The "premium" that the UK pays to borrow money compared with its international peers may be coming to an end as markets grow more confident about the government's plans, a thinktank has suggested. The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) said that the chancellor Rachel Reeves's announcement in the autumn budget that she would be more than doubling the UK's financial headroom by 2030 from £9.9bn to £22bn had begun to assure bond markets about Labour's fiscal approach. - Guardian
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(Sharecast News) - UK households cut back on spending at the fastest pace in almost five years last month as consumers put Christmas shopping on hold, according to a leading survey. Adding to concerns that uncertainty surrounding the budget has helped dampen consumer confidence, Barclays said card spending fell 1.1% year on year in November - the largest fall since February 2021. The bank said retailers still enjoyed their busiest day of the year so far on Black Friday, with transaction volumes 62.5% higher than the average day for 2025. - Guardian

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