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Wednesday newspaper round-up: Supply chain issues, Multiverse, easyJet

(Sharecast News) - Britain's supply chain strain could last until after Christmas, Boris Johnson has admitted as he urged motorists to stop panic-buying fuel by insisting supplies were "improving" - despite thousands of forecourts remaining dry. The prime minister intervened after being accused by Labour of "reducing the country to chaos" with car queues continuing to build up and fights breaking out at petrol stations, while teachers and hospital workers were left unable to get to work. - Guardian Almost 2.5 million BT customers could receive up to £500 each after a tribunal approved an attempt to launch a class action against the telecoms company over claims it overcharged them for their landline telephone services. The competition appeal tribunal (CAT) has allowed Justin Le Patourel, the founder of consumer group Collective Action on Landlines (Call), to bring the landmark £600m case on behalf of 2.3 million landline-only customers against BT. - Guardian

Euan Blair, son of former prime minister Tony Blair, has amassed a paper fortune of more than £160m after securing a record investment for his education technology start-up. Multiverse, which aims to reduce reliance on university graduates by connecting major companies and tech firms with apprentices and school leavers, achieved a valuation of $875m (£646m) by clinching new backing from US investors. - Telegraph

The easyJet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou has lost his grip on the budget airline he launched a quarter of a century ago after the company raised £1.2bn of extra cash. Sir Stelios's blocking stake has been diluted after he chose not to purchase new shares in a rights issue following a takeover swoop by low-cost rival Wizz Air. - Telegraph

Shareholders in Wise, the money transfer group, are expected to seek an explanation after its billionaire co-founder and chief executive was named, shamed and fined as a "deliberate defaulter" by HM Revenue & Customs." Kristo Kaarmann was placed on a list of "deliberate tax defaulters" by HMRC, raising questions about his fitness to head an authorised financial institution. - The Times

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(Sharecast News) - Britain is slipping down the global league table for youth employment amid a dramatic rise in worklessness that is putting a generation's future at risk, research has warned. Sounding the alarm over a worsening youth jobs crisis, the report from the accountancy firm PwC said Britain's economy was missing out on £26bn a year because of sharp regional divisions in youth joblessness. - 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
Monday newspaper round-up: Neso, local authorities, Anglo American
(Sharecast News) - Britain's energy system operator is pulling the plug on hundreds of electricity generation projects to clear a huge backlog that is stopping "shovel-ready" schemes from connecting to the power grid. Developers will be told on Monday whether their plans will be dismissed by the National Energy System Operator (Neso) - or whether they will be prioritised to connect by either the end of the decade or 2035. - Guardian

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