Exclusive: Senior Tory calls for UK to mull HSBC sanctions over links to Uyghur oppression January 11, 2022 HSBC should be hit with economic sanctions if it does not sever ties with a firm that is closely linked to the ethnic cleansing of Uyghur Muslims in China, according to senior Tory MP Sir Iain Duncan Smith. City A.M. can reveal the former Conservative leader and a group of other MPs will write to [...]
Downing Street parties scandal: Boris Johnson ‘going nowhere’, say ministers January 11, 2022 Boris Johnson is “going nowhere” and will not consider resigning over the Downing Street parties scandal engulfing him, the government has said. Johnson’s position is coming under increasing pressure, after a leaked email from a senior civil servant last night revealed Downing Street had a lockdown-busting “bring your own booze” party on 20 May, 2020. [...]
RAF serviceman who was tortured and discharged after air force discovered he was gay demands justice and full pension January 11, 2022 Simon Hinchley-Robson faced four days of being searched and assaulted by members of the RAF special investigation branch at a base in west Wales in the 1980s after it was discovered he was gay. The former serviceman now wants the Government to admit that the interrogations were wrong, and to be given his full armed [...]
Controversy after controversy: Sadiq Khan will ‘hold the Met to account’ January 11, 2022 London Mayor Sadiq Khan will “hold the Met to account” after confidence in the capital’s police force plummeted amid a slew of controversies. “The Mayor is determined to continue to hold the Met to account to deliver the changes needed to rebuild and increase the trust and confidence of all Londoners in their police service,” [...]
Ruth Davidson says Brits will ‘never forgive’ Johnson over Downing Street parties January 11, 2022 The former leader of the Scottish Tory party has launched an attack on Boris Johnson over the latest allegations of a lockdown-breaking Downing Street party, saying the public will “never forgive” the Prime Minister. Ruth Davidson said the latest allegations “make a mockery of this idea that we were doing a national endeavor to try [...]
New Downing Street party allegation from May 2020 to be probed in official investigation January 11, 2022 New allegations that Downing Street held a lockdown-breaking party for 40 members of staff in May 2020 will be probed by senior civil servant Sue Gray as a part of a wider investigation. Paymaster general Michael Ellis today apologised “unreservedly for the upset that these allegations have caused” and that “if wrongdoing is established [in [...]
Met Police sued over refusal to investigate Downing Street Christmas party allegations January 11, 2022 The Metropolitan Police has been sued by a legal charity over its failure to investigate Downing Street Christmas party allegations. The Good Law Project has issued formal legal proceedings against Britain’s largest police force after pleading with the Met to take action in December. The not-for-profit sent a letter to the Met before Christmas, asking [...]
Breakdown in social cohesion to put global economy in a vice, warn world’s top business brass January 11, 2022 A breakdown in social cohesion will cause volatility to ripple throughout the world, putting the global economy in a vice. The risk of social upheaval has intensified sharply since the onset of the Covid-19 crisis and now poses a real threat to eroding multilateral cooperation and derailing the global economy, according to a survey of [...]
Treasury considers cutting green levy to ease cost-of-living crisis for UK households January 11, 2022 The Treasury is mulling over cuts to green levies with UK households facing increased energy bills later this year amid a cost-of-living crisis.
Starmer tells Boris Johnson to ‘stop lying’ over lockdown-busting Downing Street parties January 11, 2022 Sir Keir Stamer has launched fresh attacks on Boris Johnson over his involvement in lockdown-breaking Downing Street parties, telling the Prime Minister to “stop lying to the British public”. The Labour leader said that Johnson’s “deflections and distractions are absurd” in the wake of fresh evidence he knew about illegal mass events in Downing Street [...]