Investment, international demand and development in London’s West End reached record heights in 2014, enabling businesses in the area to contribute £51.25bn to the UK’s economy.
Controversial taxi booking app Uber has big plans for 2015, including creating 50,000 jobs in Europe.
In June 2014, the Chancellor George Osborne set out plans to make a “Northern powerhouse”. This was in part due to the latest Autumn Statement revealing that employment in the three months to September in northern regions increased by 2.6 per cent, 0.3 per cent higher than the national average. This spoke volumes about the north being one of the centres driving economic growth.
