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Thursday 19 May 2022 6:15 pm  |  Updated:  Thursday 19 May 2022 6:09 pm

The City View: Tory party rift over windfall tax, and stock market sell-off

Today Andy Silvester talks to City PM reporters Jack Barnett and Nicholas Earl.

Jack unpicks the continuing stock market sell-off, one of the worst in recent memory; and Nicholas takes us through the rift in the Conservative party over the potential implementation of a windfall tax on energy companies, and assesses the viability of the tax itself.

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