EU referendum: Influential government committee calls on civil servant to answer questions on his award-winning Brexit essay April 25, 2016 An influential committee of MPs has called upon an official at the department for business to answer questions on the EU following the publication of his award winning essay on Brexit. The group of MPs on the Treasury Select Committee want to see the civil servant, Iain Mansfield, who wrote the essay on how Britain [...]
David Cameron still viewed as the most capable leader but Jeremy Corbyn seen as more honest April 25, 2016 Despite the Panama papers furore and the government's controversial £9m taxpayer-funded pro-EU leaflet, Britons still view David Cameron as the most capable leader. According to a new poll published by Ipsos Mori, Cameron is ahead on a variety of measures against Jeremy Corbyn, Nigel Farage and Tim Farron. Read more: Panama papers – Public don't think David [...]
EU referendum: Another union joins the Remain camp April 25, 2016 The CWU union has today become the latest union to back the UK's continued membership of the EU in a blow to the Leave camp. The union "overwhelmingly" voted to support remaining in the EU at its annual conference. The news comes after Unison officially backed Remain ahead of the referendum earlier this month, following [...]
EU referendum: Cabinet ministers and top Conservatives clash over immigration and security April 25, 2016 Cabinet ministers today knocked heads over key issues of immigration and security ahead of the EU referendum in June. Home secretary Theresa May said that the UK needs to "stand tall and lead in Europe" rather than leaving the EU, the home secretary has said. In her first speech ahead of the referendum in June, May said that [...]
Iain Duncan Smith just defended Boris Johnson’s attack on ‘part-kenyan’ Barack Obama April 25, 2016 Iain Duncan Smith has defended Boris Johnson’s use of the term “part-Kenyan” to describe Barack Obama and said the government told the President to issue his warning that Britain would not be able to strike a UK-US trade deal if it votes for Brexit. The former work and pensions secretary, who resigned in protest at [...]
London mayoral election 2016: Labour grandee Lord Peter Mandelson urges business not to allow Zac Goldsmith to use City Hall to push the UK out of the EU April 25, 2016 The City and London’s wider business community has been urged by a Labour grandee not to allow Tory mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith to “use City Hall as a vanguard for the Brexit campaign”. In his first intervention in the mayoral election, Lord Peter Mandelson exclusively told City A.M. that he wants to call on the business [...]
EU referendum: British businesses press “pause button” on hiring professional talent amid Brexit concerns April 25, 2016 Demand for professional talent has slowed with recruitment firms now having just one per cent more vacancies on their books than this time last year. According to research by the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo), permanent vacancies across financial services and marketing have increased 10 per cent and 12 per cent respectively while IT and [...]
Turkey releases Polly Peck fraudster Asil Nadir after extradition from UK April 24, 2016 Turkish Cypriot businessman Asil Nadir has been released in Turkey just one night after he was returned there to complete his sentence. Nadir, who was jailed in the UK in 2012 for stealing millions from his own business empire, was convicted of 10 counts of theft £28.6m between 1987 and 1990 from textiles company Polly Peck International [...]
EU referendum: President Barack Obama’s trade comments rubbished by Leave campaigners April 24, 2016 President Barack Obama’s claim that it could take the UK up to a decade to negotiate a trade deal with the US if it votes to leave the EU has come under fire by Leave campaigners. The US’s head of state said that it could "be five years from now, 10 years from now before [...]
EU referendum odds: Call it the Obama effect? Odds have moved against Brexit again April 24, 2016 The odds of Britain voting to leave Europe in the upcoming referendum have changed again, putting the prospect of leaving at one of its lowest points yet, according to one bookie. "The remain odds are shortening by the day. Brexit campaigners have been dealt several blows recently and that's been reflected by punters' cash," said Ladbrokes' Jessica [...]