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Stateside inflation roars to highest rate since Christmas 1981 April 12, 2022 Stateside inflation has roared to its steepest level since Christmas 1981 in a sign of darker times to come for UK households, reveals official figures released today. Prices are 8.5 per cent higher than they were a year ago in the US, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. The damning figures strengthen the [...]
Partygate: Met issues another 30 fines as police probe continues April 12, 2022 The Metropolitan Police has issued at least another 30 fines for breaches of Covid-19 rules in Downing Street and Whitehall as the police investigation into the partygate scandal continues. More than 50 fixed penalty notices have now been handed out to government employees that attended parties or social gatherings while England was under strict Covid [...]
Asos swings to loss as fashion giant warns shoppers may cut back on purchases April 12, 2022 Online fashion giant Asos has said it was hammered by reduced stock availability as it posted a £15.8m pre-tax loss for the six months to the end of February. The company cited “industry-wide supply chain constraints impacting stock availability and ongoing Covid-19 restrictions.” In half year results on Tuesday, the retailer posted four per cent [...]
Blunt Nadine Dorries lashes out at Channel 4: ‘Drop the lazy leftie rhetoric because your salad days are in the past’ April 11, 2022 Nadine Dorries has lashed out at Channel 4, saying the broadcaster’s “salad days are in the past”. The culture secretary took to Twitter to knock heads with TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp over the privatisation of the channel. The pair exchanged messages on Twitter after an opinion piece by Ms Dorries was published in the Mail [...]
Ineos chief Sir Jim Ratcliffe urges Kwasi Kwarteng to approve fracking test site April 11, 2022 Billionaire industrialist Sir Jim Ratcliffe has asked Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng for permission to drill a shale test site.
Travel Chaos: Extinction Rebellion blocks Lambeth and Vauxhall bridges April 10, 2022 Activists from the green campaign group Extinction Rebellion are blocking two of the key travel arteries across London.
Sunak considered resigning over his wife’s non-domicile tax status April 10, 2022 Rishi Sunak considered resigning as chancellor last week amid a torrent of stories about his wife having non-domicile tax status in the UK, it has been revealed. It was reported by The Independent last week that Sunak’s wife Akshata Murthy, who is worth around £700m personally and is the heiress to a £3.5bn fortune, was [...]
Boris Johnson heads to Kyiv for Zelensky talks April 9, 2022 Prime Minister Boris Johnson today travelled to Kyiv to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Downing Street said. The trip is being used as a means to advance talks on a new package of military and financial support. A No 10 spokesperson said: “The Prime Minister has travelled to Ukraine to meet President Zelensky in person, [...]
Fighting back: Rishi Sunak dismisses wife’s non-dom tax controversy as ‘unpleasant Labour smears’ April 8, 2022 Chancellor Rishi Sunak has come out fighting for his wife Akshata Murthy, who is facing claims of avoiding tax due to her Indian citizenship and non-dom status. The Tory heavyweight insisted that his wife, who owns a 0.9 per cent stake in her billionaire father’s firm Infosys, is “100 per cent doing everything this country [...]
UK slaps asset freezes and travel bans on the daughters of Putin and Lavrov to finish off their ‘lavish lifestyles’ April 8, 2022 The UK is sanctioning Vladimir Putin’s daughters Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova and Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova under measures to target the “lavish lifestyles” of the Russian President’s inner circle, the Foreign Office has said. The Foreign Office was also targeting the daughters of Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov with travel bans and asset freezes. A statement said: [...]