Labour grandee Harriet Harman to step down at next election after 40 years as MP December 7, 2021 Labour grandee Harriet Harman will step down at the next General Election, after 40 years as a London MP. Harman, MP for Camberwell and Peckham since 1982, told her local party of her decision this morning. The 71-year-old said she would continue to “work energetically” until the next election, due to be no later than [...]
Number 10 denies Johnson intervened to prioritise pets over people in Afghan evacuation December 7, 2021 Downing Street has vigorously denied claims that Boris Johnson intervened to rescue dogs and cats during the Afghanistan evacuation in August. A 25-year-old Foreign Office whistleblower, Raphael Marshall, today claimed that ex-soldier Pen Farthing and his Nowzad animal sanctuary were prioritised to be evacuated over local Afghanis. Marshall said there was “an instruction from the [...]
TfL funding crisis: Sadiq Khan forced to cut 500 Tube station jobs December 7, 2021 Sadiq Khan is set to make large job cuts at London Tube stations in a bid to save cash as Transport for London’s (TfL) funding crisis starts to bite. Between 500 and 600 jobs at Tube stations across London are set to be axed, with larger central London stations to absorb the largest cuts. City [...]
Crime fighter warns movies glamorising drugs fuel youngster’s coke use December 7, 2021 A senior law enforcement official has said that 'middle-class drug use' is fuelled films and TV shows that glamorise it.
TfL: Khan hits out at Shapps for refusing to meet him as funding talks go down to wire December 6, 2021 City Hall and Whitehall have continued their row over urgent Transport for London (TfL) funding talks tonight, with each side blaming the other for slow progress. With just four days to go until TfL’s latest government bailout runs out, its fourth in the past 19 months, transport secretary Grant Shapps has still not met with [...]
Government drafts in Saudi Arabia to help with levelling up investment push December 6, 2021 The government is launching a concerted effort to attract Middle East investors to buy up property in parts of the UK outside London, with the drive touted as a potential tool in Boris Johnson’s levelling up agenda. A senior Department for International Trade (DIT) source said investment minister Lord Gerry Grimstone was helping “package together” [...]
Two Met officers jailed for taking photos of murdered sisters December 6, 2021 Two police officers who took photos with the bodies of murdered sisters and shared them on Whatsapp have been jailed for two years and nine months. Deniz Jaffer, 47, and Jamie Lewis, 33 both worked were assigned to guard the scene of Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman’s murder after the women were found dead in [...]
Covid: Javid confirms community transmission of Omicron variant in England December 6, 2021 There is now community transmission of the Omicron variant of Covid across “multiple regions of England”, health secretary Sajid Javid has confirmed. Javid said today that there are 335 recorded cases of the variant in the UK, which “includes cases with no links to international travel”, but that there is not enough scientific evidence to [...]
Johnson says no new restrictions needed as top scientist warns people with ‘sniffle’ to stay home December 6, 2021 Boris Johnson has today insisted no new restrictions are needed, despite warnings from a top Covid scientist that people with a “sniffle” should work from home. Johnson this morning said the UK had been “the first country in the world to take decisive measures to tackle Omicron” in the face of criticism that his government [...]
Minsk to retaliate against EU and UK, imposing sanctions on aviation December 6, 2021 Belarus is ready to retaliate against the EU and the UK, imposing sanctions on carriers flying into its air space and banning people from entering the country. “In response to the illegitimate restrictions on the Belarusian aviation industry, which are based on unfair competition, our country will take similar steps in relation to air carriers [...]