Bank chiefs reportedly slam Labour for excluding mid-sized lenders from financial services review December 12, 2023 A group of mid-sized and specialist banks have reportedly urged shadow City minister Tulip Siddiq to include them in the Labour Party’s financial services policy review.
The Notebook: What I want for Christmas? Politicians to stop tweeting December 12, 2023 Morning Wire comment writer Anna Moloney talks Twitter politics, crime at Christmas and Madonna's Celebration Tour.
The interminable Tory bickering will not help them win much needed favour December 12, 2023 To anyone who hoped that Sunak would be able to turn the page on the Tory psychodrama - including this newspaper - the entire episode is deeply depressing.
Government not pursuing 98 per cent of Covid fraud tip-offs December 11, 2023 Just two per cent of Covid fraud tip offs are being investigated, the government has admitted.
Rishi Sunak defends Eat Out to Help Out scheme as ‘micro policy’ December 11, 2023 Rishi Sunak has defended his Eat Out to Help Out scheme to the Covid-19 inquiry as a “micro-policy” and said he was not warned about the risks.
Covid inquiry: Sunak denies describing ‘clash’ between economy and public health December 11, 2023 Rishi Sunak denied describing a “clash” between the economy and public health during the Covid-19 pandemic, the official UK inquiry has heard.
COP28: Supermarkets to be banned from selling products linked to illegal deforestation December 9, 2023 Supermarkets will be prohibited from selling goods containing palm oil, cocoa, beef, leather and soy that come from land linked to illegal deforestation under Government plans. Environment Secretary Steve Barclay set out new laws on Saturday designed to lessen the contribution of consumers to the damage doled out on precious habitats and endangered species. The [...]
Pro-Palestine protest calling for ceasefire held in central London today December 9, 2023 A pro-Palestine protest calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war will march through the streets of central London on Saturday. The march will start at Bank Junction at midday and finish in Parliament Square, with an exclusion zone prohibiting any protesters from assembling around the Israeli Embassy. It comes after the UK chose to [...]
Exclusive: London’s councils are half a billion in the red. Council Tax will go up – but will it be enough? December 9, 2023 London’s councils are trapped in a “perfect storm” after research found the boroughs are teetering on the financial brink facing a half a billion pound deficit.
Russians ‘calling on Putin to stand’ in March election (says the Kremlin) December 8, 2023 Vladimir Putin is widely expected to stand for another six-year tilt but is yet to confirm he will do so