Ashley Armstrong

Ha! Thank you!

Thanks Ben! I’m sure I’ll feel that too.
Never before a Sun to FT crossover I’m told..could be a trendsetter?!

Thank you so much Kate - very lovely of you

Thank you!

🚨Personal news:
From the Currant Bun to The Pink ‘Un.

I’m excited to say I’m joining The Financial Times as Chief UK Business Correspondent on 2 June.

I’ve had the most brilliant time being Business Editor at The Sun and will miss the excellent headlines, puns and people.

A picture of a loo seat in Union Jack colours representing how the UK could slap tariffs on US toilet seats in retaliation

As more than $2 trillion wiped off markets BOG OFF TRUMP!
Friday’s The Sun front page.

UK now considering retaliatory tariffs on everything from loo seats,to combs, vacuum cleaners, bourbon.

(You know it’s a biggie when The Sun has a splash on markets…)

Energy firm on the verge of going bust affecting 20,000 customers A GREEN energy firm is on the brink of collapse in another blow for net zero ambitions. Ripple Energy, which asked customers for cash in exchange for shares in wind turbines to local co-operatives,…

EXCL: Green energy firm Ripple Energy - which got Brits to invest in wind farms & solar panels for cheaper bills - is on brink of going bust.
Begbies Traynor to be administrators

@RippleEnergy had partnered with big suppliers incl British Gas, Octopus,Good Energy

www.thesun.co.uk/money/339430...

Morning! @TheSun Business Excl: Unilever’s boss is bagging £763,00 just to move house as “relocation benefits” for chief executives become a growing way to swell bumper pay packages.
The perk - in addition to £1.5m base salary & potential £9m in awards - works out at £222 a mile💸

Come to the Sun for the puns, stay for the commodity takes:

London’s vaults of silver bars have dramatically dropped to decade low after scramble by US traders has seen thousands of tonnes flown out of Heathrow

2,211 tonnes outflow between Dec & Jan and sell off is speeding up amid tariff threat

A wonderful night! The latest Women in Business Journalism drinks. 🍸

Thank you to everyone who came -it was great to see lots of catching up and meeting new faces!

As Baroness Patience Wheatcroft said there wasn’t a room like this 20+years ago. But there is now!

The boss of cigs giant British American Tobacco doesn’t smoke or vape he told me.

Shares up in smoke for different reasons.

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey gets a quizzing in The Sun on rates, mortgage costs, sticking to 2% inflation target, Trump & growth. (With Bailey as you haven’t seen him before)

www.thesun.co.uk/money/332388...

The direction of travel just changed again for a rejuvenated WH Smith Over a relaxed breakfast in the City of London in early December 2019, the newly appointed boss of WH Smith emphasised that the only reason the retailer’s ear

Offloading the entire WHS high street arm is shocking, 233 years after it started as a newspaper shop on Little Grosvenor Street. But not surprising.

My interview in 2021 with boss Carl Cowling as it recovered from covid

www.thetimes.com/article/ab0b...

HMV owner in talks to snap up WH Smith high street stores THE owner of HMV is considering a swoop on WHSmith’s unwanted 500 high street stores, The Sun can reveal. It is understood that advisers working for WHSmith have been in discussions with Doug Putma…

Excl: The owner of HMV, Canadian entrepreneur Doug Putman, is exploring a deal to snap up WH Smith’s 500 unwanted high street stores as the stationery retailer focused on travel.

Could mark the return of records to WH Smith shops

www.thesun.co.uk/money/330287...

Wetherspoons' is planning to open pubs abroad in top holiday hotspots this year WETHERSPOON’s plotting pubs abroad to cater to the growing thirst for the chain of cheap boozers, The Sun can exclusively reveal. Sir Tim Martin said that Spoons was considering franchises ov…

Excl: Beer we go! 🍻

Wetherspoons considering opening pubs abroad in foreign franchise push, Sir Tim Martin tells me.

Holiday hotspots most likely destinations for Spoons in the sun. Which might not please the Spanish..

www.thesun.co.uk/money/329481...

That’s handy, thanks

Old school tabloid journalism as its very best!
@aarmstrongsays.bsky.social goes to Davos in, err, Skegness to talk to ordinary, small biz owners to ask how they’d kickstart the economy.

Thanks Kien!

My first post..trying 🦋 out

🚨 Loads of fun, but with a serious message too… If you’re not reading the business section of the Sun, you should be! Glad that @aarmstrongsays.bsky.social is bringing her bylines to the Blue side 🦋

In the paper & online video today. Our own economic forum on how to get Britain growing.
The everyday businesses I spoke to say government doesn’t understand business and the Budget has made it so much harder to grow.

www.thesun.co.uk/money/329341...

Billionaires & business leaders are jetting into Davos for the annual jamboree on how to fix the world’s problems. But it’s so detached from the real world.
So off I went to Davos.
Well - Davos Way, Skegness!
For a reality check on the issues facing the economy & ordinary Brits