Uefa boss: English clubs will be sanctioned for European Super League involvement April 25, 2021 Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham and three other English football clubs will be sanctioned for their involvement in the failed European Super League project, Uefa chief Aleksander Ceferin has confirmed. Ceferin told the Mail on Sunday that the three London clubs along with Liverpool, Manchester United and Manchester City will face consequences for joining the breakaway league [...]
Labour pushes government to face cronyism allegations in House of Commons tomorrow April 25, 2021 Labour has called for a senior minister to face questions in parliament tomorrow on the ongoing allegations of cronyism and sleaze engulfing Boris Johnson’s government. The opposition has called for the government to answer an urgent question tomorrow in the Commons, after a series of explosive claims released by Dominic Cummings on Friday. Deputy Labour [...]
UK to send vital medical equipment to India to fight Covid surge April 25, 2021 The UK will send 600 pieces of medical equipment to India to help the country fight its growing surge in Covid cases. Packages of ventilators and oxygen concentrator devices will begin to arrive in India on Tuesday. India has suffered an explosion in Covid cases in recent weeks, with daily cases hitting 350,000 today and [...]
Liz Truss aims for UK to join CPTPP trading bloc in the next 12 months April 25, 2021 International trade secretary Liz Truss has said she is aiming for the UK to join a major trading bloc with countries like Mexico and Australia within the next 12 months. Truss finished up three days of face-to-face negotiations with Australian trade minister Dan Tehan in London earlier this week, with both sides saying a deal [...]
Boris Johnson leadership campaign aide was lobbyist for Sanjeev Gupta April 25, 2021 One of Boris Johnson’s aides for his leadership campaign was a lobbyist for Liberty Steel owner Sanjeev Gupta – one of the key figures in the Greensill Capital collapse. Gupta has been asking for a government bailout to save Liberty Steel, after its main financial backer – Greensill Capital – went bust last month. Malin [...]
Exclusive: London mayor candidate faces calls to pull out for hosting antisemitic video April 23, 2021 Independent mayor of London candidate Brian Rose is facing calls to pull out of the race over a video on his website that contains a slew of antisemitic conspiracy theories by conspiracy theorist David Icke. The video in question, from 2019, features Icke telling Rose in detail about how 9/11 was a plot hatched by [...]
EU financial services czar warns City that Brussels won’t bend on rule-taking demands April 22, 2021 The EU is in “no rush” to grant the City of London renewed access to its financial markets post-Brexit, according to a senior Brussels official. Mairead McGuinness, the European Commissioner for financial services, said today that Brussels will “not be recreating access to the single market for the UK as they have chosen to move [...]
Downing Street launches inquiry into Boris Johnson’s leaked texts with Sir James Dyson April 22, 2021 Downing Street is launching an inquiry into how Boris Johnson’s personal text messages with one of the UK’s richest men were leaked to the BBC. It was revealed yesterday that Sir James Dyson had lobbied Johnson for his staff to get tax exemptions for their work in building ventilators during the start of the Covid [...]
Sadiq Khan and Shaun Bailey row over ‘ludicrous’ £4.68bn tax bombshell claims April 22, 2021 Tory mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey and Sadiq Khan have today clashed over claims that the incumbent London mayor would raise taxes by £4.68bn over the next three years if re-elected. Bailey said today that Khan’s plans would mean households would have to pay £1,339 more in tax, however this figure comes mostly from a proposed [...]
Sir James Dyson has moved back to UK, docs show, as tax row continues April 21, 2021 Sir James Dyson has moved back to the UK, Companies House documents show, amid a row over texts the billionaire vacuum cleaner maker exchanged with Boris Johnson over tax problems during the pandemic. The documents, which were first reported by the Telegraph, show that Dyson’s new residence is in the UK. He had moved to [...]
