The City View - City AM's Daily Podcast

In this episode, Christian is joined by the CEO of Gaucho and M Restaurants, Martin Williams. 

Martin is one of the country's best known restaurateurs having launched his high-end M Restaurants in London before bringing the Gaucho empire into the fold. 

He talks to Christian about the sudden and dramatic impact of the shutdown on the hospitality sector and explains his own company's response to the crisis. From providing free meals to NHS hospitals to offering online training and wellbeing classes to his 1,000 employees during the lockdown, he is determined to come back stronger than ever. 

Also in this episode, Christian looks at demands from City grandees to let retail investors in on the action when a company seeks emergency fundraising; the latest demands to improve the coronavirus loan scheme; and new calculations of what all this will end up costing the government.

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In this episode, Christian is joined by author, journalist and director of the Centre for Policy Studies, Robert Colvile. 

They discuss the extraordinary economic shock unleashed on the country by the Coronavirus and the possibile political implications. 

Colvile is adamant that only a free-market economy will survive life on the other side of this crisis, and he warns against using the emergency response as grounds for a permanently bigger state. 

Also in this episode, Christian looks at the formal launch of the government's wage subsidy scheme, a new package of support fo start-ups and calls to scrap Sunday trading laws - for ever. 

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In this episode of The City View, Christian is joined by Kurt Geiger CEO, Neil Clifford

The veteran retailer discusses the unprecedented disruption and uncertainty caused by the pandemic, in a candid and illuminating conversation. 

Clifford describes how 2020 was due to be a stellar year for the high-end brand, before the retail landscape collapsed around the world. 

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City A.M. Editor Christian May talks to former Downing Street adviser Jimmy McLoughlin about the government's response to the Coronavirus pandemic.

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Join Christian May, City A.M.'s Editor in Chief, for The City View - the daily podcast from City A.M. In this episode, Christian talks to Dame Helena Morrissey - one the City's most influential and well-known fund managers. From life under lockdown with 9 children to the challenges facing the investment industry, Dame Helena offers a candid and typically insightful look at our new reality and the forces shaping our economy. She also raises questions about how businesses will adapt to life after Coronavirus and reveals what she misses most about life on the outside. 

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