London business groups: TfL funding deal ‘vital’ to capital’s economy as Khan warns on ‘managed decline’ June 22, 2022 LONDON business groups, think-tanks and property firms have warned the capital’s transport network needs a long-term funding settlement from central government or risk ‘decades’ of damage. Transport for London’s (TfL) latest emergency bailout with the Department for Transport runs out Friday – risking what the network’s chiefs have described as “managed decline” of the service. [...]
Rayner demands records of PM’s meetings over bankers’ bonus cap June 22, 2022 Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner has demanded Boris Johnson’s office release all details of meetings he has held to discuss the bankers’ bonus cap over the past year. Rayner wrote to Johnson’s chief of staff Steve Barclay to request details of a meeting Johnson held with City figures last year where, according to the Financial [...]
Starmer hits out at PM over speculation he will cut bankers’ bonus cap June 22, 2022 Sir Keir Starmer has accused Boris Johnson of “rolling over” and making plans to cut the cap on bankers’ bonuses, after reports suggesting the move is being considered in Number 10. Starmer said in Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) that Johnson’s “new approach” is “pay rises for bankers, pay cuts for district nurses”. Number 10 yesterday [...]
Raab: Pensioners need double-digit increase in payments, but striking rail workers don’t June 22, 2022 Dominic Raab has defended the government’s decision to hand out an inflation-linked increase in state pensions next year, while it rallies against similar wage rises for striking rail workers. The justice secretary said old age pensioners were in a “different position” to rail workers, because they were “disproportionately affected by the increase in energy costs [...]
‘All I want is a bus service’: Weary Tiverton and Honiton voters go the polls June 21, 2022 “It’s become a national referendum that’s been foisted on Tiverton,” says coffee shop patron Benjamin Barton. “All I want is a bus service, I would be really easily swayed if somebody said ‘we’ll put in a better bus service’.” And so goes the groan of discontent in the Devon town of Tiverton, which is daily [...]
Boris Johnson spokesperson says ‘no plans’ to change cap on executive pay June 21, 2022 Boris Johnson’s official spokesperson has said there are “no plans” to change a cap on executive pay. On Tuesday morning, the PM’s spokesperson added: “I think the issue being investigated is how non-executive directors are paid, rather than what the CEOs or directors are paid.” Ministers were mulling changes relating to “people being able to [...]
Rail strikes: Boris Johson says commuters must ‘stay the course’ June 21, 2022 Boris Johnson has told people they will have to “stay the course” and endure strike action before the government is able to reform the country’s rail network. The Prime Minister told his cabinet this morning that “we need the union barons to sit down with Network Rail and the train companies and get on with [...]
Johnson stares down major electoral tests in two by-elections June 20, 2022 Boris Johnson will face a major electoral test this week as voters go to the polls in two by-elections. The Tories are increasingly expected to lose both the Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton by-elections on Thursday, after a bruising six months for the Prime Minister. A series of scandals – including a flow of Tory [...]
Irish PM: UK’s Northern Ireland Protocol plan is ‘economic vandalism’ June 19, 2022 The UK’s plan to rip up large parts of the post-Brexit Northern Ireland Protocol has been decried as “economic vandalism” by Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin. Martin today said there were “legitimate issues” around the protocol, but that Boris Johnson’s response would damage Northern Ireland’s economy further. Foreign secretary Liz Truss introduced legislation last week [...]
Gordon Brown predicts government will ditch tax rises June 19, 2022 Gordon Brown has predicted Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak will ditch a series of planned tax rises in the face of the UK’s poor economic outlook. The former PM also hit out at the government for having “no plan” and lurching from “crisis to crisis”. The Bank of England this week moved to raise interest [...]
