Starmer confirms that Labour has ditched Corbyn’s 2019 manifesto June 28, 2022 Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed Labour will scrap the party’s 2019 manifesto in a final break from the Jeremy Corbyn-era. The Labour leader made the long expected announcement today, telling a Westminster event that “the slate is wiped clean”. His comments will draw fury from the left of the party, after Starmer pledged during the [...]
Inside the brilliantly creative Glastonbury Theatre & Circus fields June 28, 2022 It’s not all about Macca and Billie Eilish, don’t you know? Some of Glastonbury’s best areas involve no music at all. For instance, the Theatre & Circus fields are some of the festival’s oldest areas, where performers surprise punters with spontaneous shows as they pass by, and there are full-scale acrobatics pieces that you’d pay [...]
Incoming CMA chair warns job cuts could make it harder to take on cases that protect consumers from high prices June 28, 2022 The competition watchdog’s ability to get the best deal for British consumers could be endangered by job cuts, the government’s chosen candidate for chair of the body has warned. The government intends to slash 91,000 civil service jobs over the next three years, in an endeavour to bring headcount back to 2016 levels. Ministers’ preferred [...]
Gambling reform: Free bets ban could push a third of Brits to the black market June 28, 2022 A ban on ‘free bets’ would push almost a third of punters to the black market while sucking millions out of horse racing, new data released today shows.
Boris Johnson set to announce increase in defence spending June 28, 2022 Boris Johnson is set to announce an increase in UK defence spending today as a response to the growing threat from Russia. The Prime Minister is expected to announce billions of pounds extra for military equipment today, on the last day of the 2022 G7 summit, after calls from defence secretary Ben Wallace to boost [...]
Boost for the City as office take-up hits highest level so far this year with vacancy rates dropping and rent at new record June 28, 2022 Office take-up in the City of London office take-up reached 714,683 sq ft in May, which is the highest monthly take-up by volume since December 2021, and the most number of deals by number (36) since March 2021, real estate giant Savills said this morning. Take-up for the year-to-date has now reached 2.3m sq ft [...]
‘Pump fiction’: AA lambasts petrol retailers for failing to bring down forecourt prices June 28, 2022 The AA has deemed fuel prices "pump fiction" as costs at forecourts continue to rise despite a slump in wholesale.
Exclusive: Rotageek’s CEO on ‘the silver bullet’ for the future of flexible working June 28, 2022 The early 2020s have been difficult for business leaders and employers. Not only have they needed to cope and adjust to unpredictable levels of customer demand, but they’ve also needed to to keep their teams going through the harsh uncertainties of lockdowns, pingdemics and furloughs. These curveballs have forced businesses to accelerate the need to [...]
Lagarde: European Central Bank will go ‘as far as necessary’ to tame inflation June 28, 2022 The European Central Bank (ECB) will go “as far as necessary” to tame the worst bout of inflation on the Continent since records began, its chief said today. President Christine Lagarde said at the ECB’s monetary policy summit that the central bank’s commitment to getting the rate of price rises back to its two per [...]
Arm gearing up for deals and hiring push, boss says June 28, 2022 British chipmaker Arm is looking to fuel a dealmaking push and workforce expansion with the cash raised from its initial public offering, the firm’s boss Rene Haas has said.