Sunak’s pledge to fine NHS no-shows slammed by British Medical Association July 31, 2022 The British Medical Association (BMA) has today hit back at Rishi Sunak’s pledge to issue £10 fines to patients for missed GP appointments. The trade association said charging patients was not the answer to tackling the NHS backlog, and that it is “terribly disappointing that the candidates standing to be the next prime minister seem [...]
Chancellor resumes efforts to woo Arm away from Nasdaq listing July 31, 2022 Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi has resumed the UK Government’s efforts to woo Cambridge-based chip maker Arm away from a New York listing and back to London. Zahawi – who was appointed Chancellor following Rishi Sunak’s resignation in early July – has reportedly contacted Masayoshi Son, chief executive of Arm’s parent company SoftBank. SoftBank was in talks [...]
Severing business ties with China risks weighing on UK economy, says CBI boss July 30, 2022 Severing ties with Chinese business risks weighing on the UK’s cost of living crisis, the boss of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has cautioned today. Worsening relations between Beijing and the West has piled scrutiny onto Chinese businesses and investments, including the move in 2020 to remove Shenzhen-based Huawei from UK 5G infrastructure, and [...]
Sunak’s green belt ban is a plea to Tory members but will fall flat at an election July 29, 2022 YOU would be forgiven for thinking Rishi Sunak woke up yesterday morning and decided to troll young Londoners. The former Chancellor of the Exchequer has struggled to build momentum behind him since taking the lead in the first series of votes to pick the Tory leader. Where he surged ahead to win the support of [...]
Areas near 2012 London Olympics continue to see economic boost after a decade July 29, 2022 A decade after the London Olympics, areas nearby the event are continuing to feel positive economic impacts. Stratford’s E15 district has seen its economic vitality index score grow by nearly a quarter, according to analysis firm Evaluate Locate, some 15 per cent higher than the average rate seen across the rest of the country. The [...]
Exclusive: OEUK defends windfall tax’s investment relief and calls for domestic energy ramp-up July 28, 2022 The UK's leading industry body for offshore energy has defended the continued inclusion of investment relief within the windfall tax.
Yet another ‘housing policy’ designed mainly to frustrate housebuilding July 28, 2022 Pictured in an olive, recently waxed Barbour jacket in front of rolling green hills, Rishi Sunak looked every bit the country gentleman in pictures posted to his social media accounts yesterday. The reason? A commitment to protect the green belt. “We’ve seen too many examples of local councils circumventing the views of residents by taking [...]
Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak will both lose in the style stakes July 28, 2022 It was Nadine Dorries who started it. Of course it was. Earlier in the week, the culture secretary, a passionate Liz Truss supporter, tweeted to praise the foreign secretary for wearing earrings from Claire’s Accessories which had cost £4.50. By contrast, Rishi Sunak was sporting £450 Prada loafers and a bespoke suit worth £3,500. No [...]
Martin Lewis begs Sunak and Truss to ‘sit down together and make a decision on soaring energy bills’ July 28, 2022 Martin Lewis has urged Tory leadership hopefuls to take action on eye-watering energy prices and “forestall the mental damage” debts will cause. The consumer champion who founded MoneySavingExpert.com said the situation with energy bills is reaching a “desperate” stage, and will impact on millions of households. He also warned the situation needed to be solved [...]
‘Political headache’: House prices soar to nearly nine times the average income July 28, 2022 Property prices have soared to nearly nine time the average household disposable income in Britain, according to official figures. Affordability ratios in England are at their worst since records began in 1999, the Office for National Statistics revealed today. In London, an average-priced home will cost prospective buyers from low-income households an eyewatering 40 years’ [...]