NHS waiting lists turn private healthcare into the latest front in the war for talent March 13, 2024 City businesses are increasingly offering private healthcare insurance as an employee benefit when trying to recruit new staff, recruiters and insurers told Morning Wire
‘Texas Hold ‘Em’: Badenoch to ink trade MOU with 9th largest economy in the world March 13, 2024 Kemi Badenoch will sign a trade pact with Texas as the UK continues to chase state-level deals in the absence of a national US agreement.
Post Office: Wronged victims to be exonerated under fresh law March 13, 2024 Wrongfully convicted postmasters are set to be exonerated via a fresh law aimed at clearing the names of those caught up in the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, ministers announced.
Tories and Labour increasingly believe going green won’t win votes March 12, 2024 Tory plans to back gas power stations and Labour's decision to scale back its £28bn green pledge suggest both parties increasingly believe going big on green initiatives won't win them votes at the next election.
‘Concessions to the gas lobby’: Renewable energy sector blasts government’s gas power play March 12, 2024 The UK's renewable energy sector has slammed the government’s new commitment to develop gas-fired power stations to act as a back up to support green energy projects.
Sir Nigel Wilson: Britain’s bosses must stop ‘moaning, groaning and whinging’ March 12, 2024 UK bosses need to stop “moaning and groaning and whinging” and start talking up Britain as a place to do business, the former boss of Legal & General has warned.
Energy secretary decries Labour’s ambition to de-carbonise the UK electricity grid as ‘pure politics’ March 12, 2024 Speaking at international affairs think-tank Chatham House, Coutinho denied accusations from journalists and the audience that energy policy was being used as a political football and insisted the conservative road map was based on facts.
Demand for ‘urgent investment’ as number of duty solicitors at ‘crisis’ level March 12, 2024 The Law Society has called for “urgent investment” from the government as to avoid miscarriages of justice due to declining number of duty solicitors. The president of the society, Nick Emmerson stated that across England and Wales, “duty solicitor schemes are in crisis” because the government “continues to undervalue their work.” Duty solicitors are lawyers [...]
Michelle Donelan sorry for ‘distraction’ after posting defamatory (and expensive) letter March 12, 2024 Michelle Donelan has apologised for “any distraction” her posting of a defamatory letter on X which saw £15,000 of taxpayer money paid out to settle a libel case has caused.
Britain and Germany to sign science and tech research deal in post-Brexit leap after rejoining Horizon March 12, 2024 The UK and Germany will sign a fresh agreement to boost their joint science and technology research, the government has announced.