Boris Johnson admits UK shortages are here to stay until Christmas October 3, 2021 Boris Johnson has admitted the UK’s goods shortages will likely last until Christmas, while adding that “we need to see” a “period of adjustment” post-Brexit. The Prime Minister said today that he would not “pull the lever” of more immigration in the short-term to stop the lorry driver shortages. Petrol shortages are still being seen [...]
Ministers to crack down on ‘incredibly dangerous’ motorway protests October 3, 2021 Ministers have pledged tougher action on demonstrators who block motorways. Home secretary Priti Patel is expected to outline plans for longer sentences and fresh powers for police to seize demonstrators’ equipment, at the Conservative party conference this week. It comes as the climate group Insulate Britain has blocked the M1, M4 and M25 in protests [...]
Sunak and Johnson strike deal to wean government off borrowing October 3, 2021 Prime minister Boris Johnson and chancellor Rishi Sunak have brokered a deal to wean the government off borrowing to finance spending. Any new spending announced at the upcoming budget and spending review must be financed by reductions in spending elsewhere or tax hikes, Johnson has reportedly agreed to. The news was first reported by The [...]
Commons Speaker demands Met Police meeting to discuss Wayne Couzens’ parliament work October 3, 2021 The Speaker of the House of Commons has requested an urgent meeting with the Met Police after it was revealed Wayne Couzens was deployed to parliament on several occasions. The Met police officer – who was handed a life sentence for the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard – was on duty five times [...]
Commons Speaker demands Met Police meet to discuss Wayne Couzens’ parliament work – CityAM : CityAM October 3, 2021 The Speaker of the House of Commons has requested an urgent meeting with the Met Police after it was revealed Wayne Couzens was deployed to parliament on several occasions. The Met police officer – who was handed a life sentence for the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard – was on duty five times [...]
Petrol bosses warn fuel shortage is ‘getting worse’ in London and south-east October 2, 2021 Fuel shortages are getting worse rather than improving, especially in London and the south-east of England, the chairman of the Petrol Retailers Association (PRA) has warned. Brian Madderson said it remains a “really big problem” in this part of the UK, and told the BBC’s Today programme: “In London and the South East and possibly [...]
Javid: Care workers should ‘get out and get another job’ if refuse vaccine October 2, 2021 UK health secretary Sajid Javid has said care workers who don’t want to get vaccinated should “get out and get another job” in the most hardline stance on the jab from a government minister yet. Trade bodies and care home providers have raised concerns that the deadline for the legal requirement for workers to be [...]
Bridgepoint enlists Rothschild for £1.3bn Miller Homes sale amid housing boom October 2, 2021 Bridgepoint is seeking to capitalise on soaring valuations as the housing market booms, with the sale or float of Miller Homes, one of the UK’s biggest housebuilders. The private equity firm has appointed investment bank Rothschild to advise on its potential exit from Miller Homes, four years after it bought the company from GSO Capital [...]
Priti Patel: Police must take harassment of women more seriously October 2, 2021 Police must take harassment and flashing more seriously, Priti Patel said, as the Met comes under more scrutiny over how violence against women is treated in the wake of Sarah Everard’s murder. Forces should “raise the bar” and treat everybody “with respect, dignity and seriously”, the home secretary told the Telegraph, as she dismissed suggestions [...]
Where to eat, drink and sleep in Manchester this Tory conference October 2, 2021 Conservative Party Conference, which starts tomorrow, is a useful opportunity for the London bubble dwellers amongst us to be reminded of the promise beyond the M25. It sometimes feels as if Manchester is more familiar to football-crazy kids in the Far East than to denizens of this country’s capital city. So for out of the [...]
