Ofcom brings stronger protections for UK telephone boxes June 8, 2022 Stronger protections for public call boxes come into force today, despite the fact that 96 per cent of UK adults now own a mobile phone.
Number 10 renews threat to petrol retailers who don’t pass on fuel duty cut June 8, 2022 Downing Street has renewed threats to name and shame petrol retailers not handing on a 5p cut in fuel duty to customers as UK prices reach almost £2 a litre. Boris Johnson’s spokesman today said the government wants this year’s fuel duty cut to be “passed on at all sites and petrol stations”, but that [...]
Voting day: EU emission cutting plans suffer setback as MEPs reject carbon market reforms June 8, 2022 The EU will vote on a raft of emission cutting pledges and reforms across business and industry as the bloc looks to finalise environmental pledges.
Europe at risk of energy rationing this winter, warns IEA June 8, 2022 Europe is at risk of energy shortages and rationing this winter after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, warned the head of the IEA.
As if things could not get any worse for Boris Johnson: Govt faces humiliating defeat in Lords over immigration June 8, 2022 Woes for Boris Johnson deepened last night as the Government suffered a heavy defeat by peers critical of a move to scrap the option of physical proof of immigration status in favour of a digital-only approach. Members of the House of Lords voted by 159 to 96, majority 63, in a so-called Motion of Regret [...]
Govt wastes close to £100m on electronic tagging and has no clue if it helps prevent reoffending June 8, 2022 Whitehall’s watchdog has warned that the Government does not know if electronically tagging criminals is helping to cut reoffending because of failings with the system. The failure to carry out a “fundamental transformation” of the scheme has also cost the taxpayer millions of pounds, according to the National Audit Office (NAO). It said the Ministry [...]
US successful seizure of Russian oligarch’s £259m superyacht in deemed-safe Fiji sends shockwaves through Moscow June 8, 2022 Russian oligarchs in Moscow and around the world woke up to the shock news this morning that American authorities won a legal battle late last night to seize a Russian-owned superyacht in Fiji and they wasted no time in taking command of the £259m vessel. The court ruling represented a significant victory for the US [...]
Black Wednesday: Russian Army close to capturing entire Donbas region while Kremlin sends hundreds of bodies to Kyiv June 8, 2022 The Kremlin claims this morning the Russian Army has taken control of 97 per cent of one of the two provinces that make up the Donbas region, as it is drawing closer to its goal of fully capturing Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland. It also appears that Russia now occupies roughly half of Donetsk province, according [...]
Healthcare jaws drop as Sajid Javid calls NHS ‘a defunct Blockbuster video rental store in the age of Netflix’ June 8, 2022 Jaws dropped in and outside Westminster today after the Health Secretary likened the NHS to a now-defunct video rental store in a world dominated by streaming services, saying the country has a “Blockbuster healthcare system in the age of Netflix”. Downing Street said Sajid Javid told a Cabinet meeting earlier today that it is “no [...]
MPs accuse government of wasting billions on levelling up agenda June 8, 2022 The government has wasted billions of pounds through poor allocation of its Levelling Up Fund, according to a Westminster committee of MPs. A new report from the Public Affairs Committee (PAC) said the way money had been spent for the government’s flagship policy to improve the North and Midlands had been “unsatisfactory”. The government set up [...]