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The UK’s Big Bang 2.0 – bonfire or bluff?

Jeremy Hunt
UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will drive the reforms. Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Will the UK government’s Edinburgh Reforms deliver on the game-changing rhetoric or turn out to be more of a damp squib?

The second half of 2022 saw significant turbulence in British politics, with a government headed by Liz Truss lasting just 49 days. Following this, a spate of changes to City of London regulations – labelled the Edinburgh Reforms – was proposed in December.

Billed ‘Big Bang 2.0’, in reference to the previous set of

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