Ireland tightens restrictions amid variant fears December 4, 2021 Ireland is tightening COVID restrictions again over fears about the Omicron variant.
Sunak gears up to slash taxes December 4, 2021 Rishi Sunak is preparing to cut income tax by 2p in the pound or to slash VAT rates before the next election.
GPs can postpone health checks for over-75s in booster vaccine push December 4, 2021 GPs have been given permission to postpone health checks for over-75s to allow them to focus on booster vaccines to combat the rise of the new Omicron variant.
Migrant Crisis: France rejects joint border patrol proposal by Boris Johnson December 3, 2021 The Prime Minister of France, Jean Castex, told Boris Johnson that he could not accept a joint British-French patrol in the English Channel in response to the migrant crisis as the issue was a “matter of our sovereignty.” In a letter to the British prime minister Castex wrote “France is ready to pursue our operational [...]
Human rights group tell the EU to ban Israeli NSO spyware December 3, 2021 Human rights organisations have called on the European Union to impose global sanctions on NSO Group and take “every action” to prohibit the company’s surveillance technology.
UK watchdog slams government failures to tackle Covid loan fraud December 3, 2021 The National Audit Office has chastised the government for failing to crack down on an estimated £5bn of loan fraud during the pandemic. The government’s department for business, energy and industrial strategy handed out far more in Covid Bounce Back Loans than it was expecting during the pandemic with a total of £47bn dished out [...]
Tories win Old Bexley and Sidcup by-election despite sleaze allegations and Boris Johnson’s disastrous CBI speech December 3, 2021 The UK’s newest MP this morning is Tory Louie French after winning the Old Bexley and Sidcup by-election around 2am earlier this morning. French took more than half the votes in the contest, which was triggered by the death of former Cabinet minister James Brokenshire. But there was a 10 per cent swing to Labour [...]
WTO countries ink deal to cut red tape for services firms December 2, 2021 The UK is one of 67 countries to sign up to a new World Trade Organisation (WTO) pact to cut red tape around licensing and qualifications for services firms. The deal – signed by countries like the UK, US, China, Russia, Japan, Germany, France and Canada – aims to increase transparency and efficiency for services [...]
Liberal Democrats call for £5.5bn-a-year tax cuts for small businesses December 2, 2021 The Liberal Democrats are calling for Rishi Sunak to bring in a package of tax cuts for small businesses that would be worth up to £5.5bn-a-year. Party leader Ed Davey said “Boris Johnson must be living on another planet” if he thinks his government’s planned tax rises, which will increase the country’s tax burden to [...]
Number 10 tells US not to ‘conflate’ Trump-era steel tariffs with Brexit December 2, 2021 Downing Street has warned the US that tetchy UK-EU negotiations over the post-Brexit Northern Ireland Protocol should not affect any decisions made about Donald Trump-era tariffs on British steel. A Number 10 spokesperson said “we do not think those issues should be conflated”, after reports today that the US was not removing tariffs on British [...]