Cressida Dick resigns after Khan loses faith February 10, 2022 Met Police commissioner Cressida Dick has reportedly resigned after Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said he no longer had confidence in her leadership.
Labour’s business spokesperson backs easing of EU’s Solvency II insurance regulation February 10, 2022 Labour’s shadow business secretary has said he is in favour of scrapping the EU’s Solvency II directive post-Brexit in a bid to free up insurance firms to plow tens of billions of pounds into the British economy. Jonathan Reynolds said today at a UK Finance event that there was “an argument, not for deregulation, but [...]
Russia foreign minister slams ‘deaf’ Liz Truss after their Moscow meeting February 10, 2022 Russia’s foreign minister has launched a stinging attack on Liz Truss after their meeting in Moscow today, labelling the UK’s foreign secretary as “deaf” and “selfish”. Truss met with Sergey Lavrov in Moscow to discuss the crisis in Ukraine, with the foreign secretary saying the UK wants to provide a “path of diplomacy” to de-escalate [...]
Marble Arch mound architects slam “nonsensical” premature opening and “barbers” in UK media for negative publicity February 10, 2022 The Dutch architects behind the universally panned Marble Arch mound have hit out at Westminster City Council, the UK media, the builders of the mound, English Heritage and Historic England for the project failing to live up to its promise. In a post on their website, architects MVRDV say “anyone who visited the Marble Arch [...]
Brexit in Bern: EU immigration row heats up as Switzerland threatens to leave Schengen area February 10, 2022 Switzerland is threatening to leave the Schengen zone if the EU countries that are part of the visa treaty move to strengthen their border force Frontex, which Brussels is pushing for. Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard, is the collective term for national border and coast guard forces within the EU’s Schengen Area, as [...]
Businesses urged to snap up £850m in unused Covid-19 support February 10, 2022 Businesses have been urged to apply for Covid-19 supports grants, after the business minister admitted today that £850m worth of funding is still up for grabs. The funding has been made available by government to councils in England, for them to distribute to businesses in need. More than £550m is still yet to be allocated [...]
John Major: Johnson broke lockdown laws and is eroding British democracy February 10, 2022 Boris Johnson broke his own lockdown laws and is eroding trust in British democracy, according to former Prime Minister John Major. Major launched a withering attack on the PM today, saying his response to the partygate scandal made the government “look distinctly shifty” while too often “the truth has been optional” for ministers. Major has long [...]
North Korea refuses Covax vaccine deliveries as scheme shrinks number of allocated jabs February 10, 2022 North Korea has reportedly not accepted any Covid-19 vaccines from the global COVAX scheme, leaving millions of allocated vaccines to be re-distributed. The worldwide vaccine sharing programme has dialled back the number of doses it had allotted to North Korea to help it meet international immunisation targets, Reuters first reported. A little over 8.1m vaccines [...]
ONS: Number of UK ‘high growth’ firms has fallen by 15 per cent since 2014 February 9, 2022 The number of UK firms considered to be “high growth” job creators has plummeted by 15 per cent between 2014 and 2020, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The figures, compiled by Labour, showed that 14,190 firms were considered to be high growth at the end of 2014 and that this [...]
Covid: Self-isolation and all other restrictions to be dropped this month February 9, 2022 Self-isolation requirements and all other remaining Covid restrictions will be dropped by the end of this month for England, Boris Johnson has announced. Johnson told MPs today that the government would soon bring forward a full strategy to deal with the later stages of the pandemic and that all restrictions will be dropped around 24 [...]