The success of London’s financial services can create equality of opportunity in the UK June 12, 2023 Our financial services spread opportunities throughout the UK. We have to build on their success to put our country at the forefront, and make it a good place where to live for everyone, writes Chris Hayward
The housing crisis speaks to unique social injustices – and is distinctly acute in London June 12, 2023 There are overcrowded families living with mould, and schools referring the poor housing of their pupils to the Housing Ombudsman. This housing crisis is ripping our country apart, writes Richard Blakeway
UK car and battery producers set to miss out on benefits from new UK-US partnership June 11, 2023 UK carmakers and battery producers will miss out on benefits from the much-anticipated US-UK economic partnership announced on Thursday, according to analysis from trade experts reported by the Financial Times. Britain’s automotive and electric vehicle (EV) industry had been hoping that “Atlantic Declaration” deals would help address concerns in the sector surrounding the impact of [...]
Shock result as Paul Scully MP fails to make Tory mayoral candidate shortlist June 11, 2023 Conservative MP Paul Scully has failed to make it onto his party’s shortlist in the race to take on Sadiq Khan for mayor of London. The upset saw the minister for London – widely thought of as the likely Tory favourite – snubbed in favour of assembly member Susan Hall, former No 10 advisor Daniel [...]
Cabinet minister claims politics has ‘moved on’ from Boris Johnson June 11, 2023 Politics has “moved on” from the drama of Boris Johnson, a senior cabinet minister has claimed amid a row over the former prime minister’s resignation as an MP and honours list. Energy secretary Grant Shapps told Sky News’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday that while former London mayor Johnson possessed “many qualities”, No 10 was under [...]
Saudi Arabia could replicate Dubai as a ‘playground for everyone’, says Riyadh Air boss June 11, 2023 The British chief executive of Saudi Arabia’s major new airline said on Sunday that the country could become a “playground for everybody” and replicate Dubai’s social and economic liberation, despite ongoing criticism over human rights abuses and corruption. In an interview with the Telegraph, Riyadh Air’s CEO Tony Douglas, a former boss of Etihad Group [...]
Billionaire George Soros hands control of empire to son June 11, 2023 Billionaire financier George Soros has said he is handing control of his sprawling business empire to his son, Alexander Soros, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal published today.
Wuhan lab leak caused Covid-19 pandemic, investigation claims June 11, 2023 A Wuhan lab leak after deadly coronaviruses were spliced into a mutant superbug may have caused the global Covid-19 pandemic, a shock investigation has claimed. Chinese scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were running a dangerous undercover programme of experimental bioresearch, the Sunday Times’ Insight team reports. The revelations come the week the UK [...]
Danone UK boss urges government to raise fat, sugar and salt taxes June 11, 2023 The UK boss of a major food firm has called on ministers to link VAT rates to the “health credentials” of products containing fat, salt and sugar, in the first example of such a demand coming from business rather than government. James Mayer, president of Danone UK & Ireland, which sells the Actimel yoghurt drink [...]
Travelodge owners eye £1.2bn price tag for budget hotel chain June 11, 2023 Budget hotel chain Travelodge will be put up for sale with a price tag of over £1bn as its owners look to cash in the recovery of the travel sector post-pandemic. Its owner of nearly a decade, American asset management firm Goldentree is said to be in talks with investment banks to explore a potential [...]
