Sirius Real Estate more than doubles rent roll in £380m UK push June 13, 2022 Industrial park and flexible workspace provider Sirius Real Estate has more than doubled its rent roll over the past year, as it continues to push into the UK’s hot property market. Rental income has surged over 73 per cent to €167m in the year to 31 March, up from €96.5m a year prior. Sirius put [...]
London retains crown as Europe’s top city for foreign financial services investment June 13, 2022 London has retained its crown as Europe’s most attractive city for foreign financial services investment as investors shrug off Brexit concerns and continue to pump cash into the capital, a new survey has revealed.
NI Protocol changes will not break international law, minister says June 12, 2022 New UK legislation to unilaterally change the post-Brexit Northern Ireland Protocol will not break international law, Northern Ireland secretary Brandon Lewis has insisted. Lewis said the government’s plans, which will be brought forward to parliament tomorrow, are “lawful and correct”, despite comments from EU leaders saying any unilateral change to the protocol will break international [...]
Boris Johnson has until autumn to save his job, Lord Frost says June 10, 2022 Prime Minister Boris Johnson has until the autumn to set out a clear Conservative vision for the future or face being ousted by his own MPs, his former Brexit minister, Lord Frost, has warned. Despite having survived a bruising vote of confidence on Monday, Lord Frost said the Prime Minister could not afford to ignore [...]
Wizz Air’s boss under fire following comments on staff reporting fatigue June 9, 2022 Wizz Air’s boss Jozsef Varadi has come under fire after he made comments against pilots reporting symptoms of fatigue. In an internal video leaked yesterday, the chief executive was heard telling staff to “go the extra mile.” “We cannot run this business when every fifth person of a base reports sickness because that person is [...]
London becomes fourth most expensive city in the world: Rent, petrol and cooking oil drive cost of living June 9, 2022 A perfect storm of rising inflation, the war in Ukraine and soaring house prices and rent, have turned London in to a pressure cooker of expense, making it the fourth most costly place to live in the world. London move up one place according to new research about cost of living for expatriates around the [...]
Pro-Brexit ‘Supermum’ forced out by Liz Truss after saying Boris Johnson ‘is in wrong job’ June 9, 2022 Pro-Brexit banker and now-former non-executive director of the Foreign Office Baroness Morrissey resigned yesterday, after Liz Truss reportedly suggested she would be sacked for comments made about the prime minister. Morrissey, mother to nine children and dubbed a ‘Supermum’, told LBC on Monday night that prime minister Boris Johnson was “just in the wrong job”, [...]
Growth warning should inject some urgency into Tories’ economic plans June 9, 2022 PERHAPS it was the fact that Boris Johnson was so close to losing his own that has converted him to the cause of expanding home ownership. Either way, he’s a welcome addition to the cause to – in the words of the popular twitter meme – build some bloody houses. The question is whether, scarred [...]
Richard Branson’s right hand man: Mastering rail is ‘harder than space’ June 8, 2022 Mastering rail is “harder than space”, according to one space veteran, formerly Richard Branson’s right-hand man in the making of Virgin Galactic and Virgin Orbit. As Britain prepares to launch satellites from its own soil for the first time this summer, unions are set to bring the country’s rail network to a standstill in later this month. Speaking on [...]
Minister: UK ready to press ahead with unilateral change to NI Protocol June 8, 2022 The UK is ready to push ahead with its move to unilaterally change the post-Brexit Northern Ireland Protocol, according to Northern Ireland minister Conor Burns. Burns said the UK’s “simple” solution would be brought to parliament very soon, unless the EU can come up with a renewed political mandate for its negotiators. Irish PM Micheál [...]