HMRC triples number of tax probes into footballers August 10, 2020 The UK’s tax authority has tripled the number of investigations into professional footballers in the year to March as a part of a wider tax avoidance crackdown. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) opened 246 probes into professional footballers in the year to March 2020, which was an increase from 87 in the previous year. The [...]
Tory mayor candidate Shaun Bailey shows off his campaign makeover August 5, 2020 Shaun Bailey’s had a tough time of it as the Conservative mayor of London candidate. Chosen back in 2018, he has had two years to raise his profile and launch attacks on the mayor through his role as a London Assembly member. Despite ample opportunity, Bailey did not manage to lay a glove on Sadiq [...]
Tory mayor candidate Shaun Bailey calls Sadiq Khan a ‘con man’ August 5, 2020 Tory mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey has accused Sadiq Khan of being a “con man” and of “betraying” black working class communities as he tries to reposition his campaign. Bailey told City A.M. after a speech that Khan had pulled a “confidence trick” on Londoners and had been an habitual liar as mayor. The mayoral candidate [...]
UK and Valneva agree to set up coronavirus vaccine facility in Scotland August 5, 2020 The UK government has struck a deal with biotech company Valneva to build facilities in Scotland to potentially develop a coronavirus vaccine. The deal would see a manufacturing facility built in Livingston, West Lothian, with the potential to produce 60m units of a vaccine. The government and the French biotech company struck an agreement last [...]
UK green lights £1.3bn of housing and infrastructure spending August 4, 2020 Proposals to build more than 70,000 new homes and start a raft of commercial infrastructure projects were given the green light today in a £1.3bn funding announcement from the UK government. More than 300 projects in England – including a £23m commercial development in Manchester and a £14.88m investment in building residential homes on Brownfield [...]
WHO warns UK about need to implement coronavirus test and trace ‘properly’ August 4, 2020 The UK is at risk of a having significant surges of coronavirus cases if the NHS Test and Trace programme is not up to scratch, according to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Covid envoy. Dr David Nabarro said today that if “testing and tracing and isolation just is not done properly” then it would lead [...]
Donald Trump questions accuracy of South Korean coronavirus stats August 4, 2020 Donald Trump has questioned the validity of South Korea’s coronavirus statistics during a heated clash with a US TV station. The President was questioned by Axios on why the US had such high rates of Covid-19 deaths, which are currently at around 1,000 per day, and why they were rising. The interviewer said this was [...]
Liberal Democrats leadership race: The long road to relevance July 30, 2020 For the second consecutive summer, Liberal Democrat members will be dragged to the polls to vote in a leadership election. While last year’s contest had a palpable feeling of optimism and excitement for many members, this year’s affair will likely represent the most abject contrast. The Liberal Democrats had surged to an unlikely lead in [...]
Boris Johnson: Coronavirus ‘bubbling up’ in 30 UK areas July 30, 2020 Boris Johnson has warned that coronavirus rates are “bubbling up” in 30 different areas in the UK as fears grow that the country may be on its way to a second wave. Johnson said today that the UK must be alert to the threat of a “really damaging second wave”. Latest figures from NHS Digital [...]
Kodak shares soar 1,500 per cent on coronavirus drug loan July 30, 2020 Shares in Kodak have surged by 1500 per cent since the end of trading last week on the back of a Donald Trump deal that will see the photography company develop drugs to treat coronavirus. Trump made the announcement of the $795m funding yesterday, sending Kodak’s stock price on the New York Stock Exchange soaring [...]
