PM: All five coronavirus tests are being met June 23, 2020 Boris Johnson has announced that the UK has met all five coronavirus tests required to ease the lockdown, as the Prime Minister today set out his roadmap for England to ease social distancing restrictions and revitalise the economy. In April, the Prime Minister announced five tests that had to be met before lockdown restrictions could [...]
Apple WWDC 2020: Everything Apple announced June 22, 2020 Tech giant Apple today unveiled its latest product updates at the annual WWDC developer conference, streamed online from the Steve Jobs Theater in California for the first time. Usually a five-day, $1,600 event for tech developers to learn about the latest tools for making apps, the WWDC — which stands for Worldwide Developer Conference — [...]
PM expected to relax social distancing measures tomorrow June 22, 2020 Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to reveal the outcome of a review into social distancing measures tomorrow, which could see the two-metre gap relaxed. Non-essential stores have already been allowed to reopen in England, while some services will resume in Wales today. Meanwhile a mandate to wear face coverings on public transport comes into [...]
How do you solve a problem like Wirecard? June 19, 2020 It’s been a wild ride for Wirecard. When the German payments firm premiered on the prestigious blue-chip Dax index just two years ago, shares were priced at €200 apiece. Today, prices hit as low as €20 per share, forcing out chief executive Markus Braun and leaving the future of the digital payments firm in question. [...]
Foreign Office chief given the boot by Boris Johnson June 19, 2020 The Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s top mandarin has announced he will retire early “at the request” of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, as the ministry prepares to merge with the Department for International Development (DfID). Sir Simon McDonald, who has served as the Foreign Office’s permanent secretary for five years, will step down in September. The [...]
Guy Hands: Diversity is good for business and good for Britain – CityAM : CityAM June 19, 2020 Twenty years ago my wife Julia and I decided to support and work with Mansfield College, Oxford, the college I had attended between 1978 and 1982.We knew that for Mansfield College to succeed it would need to aim for something that would set it apart from other Oxford Colleges. At the same time as we [...]
Andrew Tyrie, chair of Competition and Markets Authority, to step down June 18, 2020 Former Treasury select committee chair Lord Andrew Tyrie has resigned as chairman of the UK’s competition watchdog, citing the “inherent limits” of his position. Tyrie, who used to be a Conservative MP, announced he would step down from his role at the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in September. He joined the CMA in April [...]