Expelled Labour members lose High Court antisemitism battle July 8, 2021 Eight former and current Labour members have lost a High Court claim against the party over how its disciplinary body handled antisemitism complaints. The group claimed their suspensions or official warnings over alleged antisemitism should be revoked as the party’s disciplinary process was unfair. An Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) report into Labour antisemitism [...]
Frost warns UK-EU relationship doomed without agreement over Northern Ireland Protocol July 8, 2021 Boris Johnson’s defacto Brexit minister has warned that UK-EU relations post-Brexit will not succeed unless the issues with the Northern Ireland Protocol are solved. Lord David Frost said today that the future of Northern Ireland is “so fundamental to getting this relationship right”. “The issues around the protocol are central to the tensions between us,” [...]
Boris Johnson cleared of wrongdoing over luxury £15,000 Mustique trip July 8, 2021 Boris Johnson has been cleared of wrongdoing over his £15,000 trip to Mustique, but was criticised by a parliamentary committee for not cooperating more in the probe. Johnson had been investigated by the MP standards watchdog Kathryn Stone and then the House of Commons Committee on Standards over donations he received for the Caribbean holiday in [...]
One-in-three working Britons had wages subsidised by government during Covid July 8, 2021 One-in-three of the UK’s workforce had their pay subsidised by the government during Covid-19, new figures from the Treasury revealed today. The figures showed that 11.6m people were on the furlough scheme at some point throughout the pandemic, while 2.9m self-employed people made use of the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme. The furlough scheme has seen [...]
PM reveals Asda woes over post-Brexit Northern Ireland Protocol July 7, 2021 Asda is facing unnecessary checks on its goods crossing from Great Britain to Northern Ireland due to onerous post-Brexit red tape, according to Boris Johnson. Johnson said there are some “very serious problems” with the way the EU was implementing the post-Brexit Northern Ireland Protocol and that movement needs to happen “pretty fast” to fix [...]
Boris Johnson orders national security adviser to review Chinese takeover of UK chip plant July 7, 2021 Boris Johnson has ordered his national security advisor to probe the takeover of the UK’s largest chip factory by a Chinese-owned semiconductor firm. The Prime Minister today said the sale was “a very difficult business” and that “we will look at it again”. Nexperia, a Dutch firm owned by China’s Wingtech, on Monday said it [...]
Boris Johnson refuses to disclose data on predicted summer Covid cases July 7, 2021 Boris Johnson has refused to divulge government projections on summer Covid cases data after England drops almost all its restrictions in less than two weeks. Health secretary Sajid Javid said yesterday that up to 100,000 people could test positive for Covid each day by next month, after social distancing and mandatory face masks are dropped. [...]
Haiti President Jovenel Moise assassinated July 7, 2021 The President of Haiti Jovenel Moise has been assassinated at his residence overnight. Moise’s wife was also wounded in the attack and is currently being treated in hospital. In a statement released this morning, Haiti’s interim prime minister Claude Joseph said: “A group of individuals who have not been identified, some of whom were speaking [...]
Dominic Raab warns against ‘politicising’ Covid origins probe against China July 6, 2021 Dominic Raab has warned against western countries “politicising” the probe into the origins of Covid against China as this would make it harder to find concrete answers. The foreign secretary told MPs today that there needs to be a “transparent, science led approach” to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) investigation into how Covid-19 originated, while [...]
Self-isolation for double-jabbed people in close contact with Covid case scrapped July 6, 2021 Double-jabbed people who have been in close contact with a positive Covid case will no longer have to go through self-isolation after 16 August. Children under the age of 18 will also no longer have to self-isolate from this date, health secretary Sajid Javid announced today. Javid said people who have been double-jabbed will be [...]
