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  • Rampant inflation swells UK debt interest bill and pushes up government borrowing

    June 23, 2022

    Inflation is swelling the UK’s interest bill and forcing the government to borrow more money to pay investors, official figures released today revealed. The amount of money the government paid to holders of UK debt jumped just over 70 per cent over the last year, reaching £7.6bn in May, up from £4.5bn last year, according [...]

  • Lawyers say ‘Bill of Rights’ will make government less accountable

    June 22, 2022

    Lawyers have hit out at the government’s plans to scrap the Human Rights Act, over claims it is an attack on the rule of law that risks undermining Britain’s international reputation.   Law Society president I. Stephanie Boyce said the plans risk ruining Britain’s reputation “with trade partners, business, and in the international arena,” as [...]

  • Insurers calls on government to expand pensions ‘auto-enrolment’ scheme

    June 21, 2022

    The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has called on the government to to expand its pensions “auto-enrolment” scheme, following a review of the policy’s successes since it came into force a decade ago. The ABI said the government should set out plans to expand its auto-enrolment policy, which requires employers to automatically enroll all staff [...]

  • Legal challenge over retail price index changes could cost taxpayer $40bn, analysts warn

    June 21, 2022

    The government could be forced to fork out as much as £40bn in compensation if a legal challenge launched today over the Treasury’s move to recalculate retail prices succeeds, analysts have warned.

  • Government food strategy proposals ‘do not go far enough’, say top investors

    June 16, 2022

    A group of top investors representing £6tn in assets have slammed the government’s response to the national food strategy today and called for mandatory health and sustainability reporting in the UK.

  • Raab says scrapping Human Rights Act will let government send migrants to Rwanda

    June 16, 2022

    Justice secretary Dominic Raab has said scrapping the Human Rights Act will allow the government to begin successfully sending asylum seekers to Rwanda. Speaking to the BBC, Raab blamed the UK’s Human Rights Act (HRA) 1998 for blocking this week’s Rwanda flight, as he said the government’s plans to replace the HRA with a new [...]

  • Law Society calls £404m spent on court agency staff an ‘expensive sticking plaster’

    June 15, 2022

    The Law Society has hit out at HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS), after the government admitted spending £404m on court agency staff over a five-year period. The solicitors’ association called the government’s use of agency staff an “expensive sticking plaster,” as it said the £404m sum “could be put to better use”.    “To [...]

  • Government’s ‘immoral’ Rwanda plan should ‘shame us as a nation,’ Archbishop says

    June 14, 2022

    A group of high-ranking Bishops, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, have hit out at the government over its plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda. In a letter to The Times, a group of 20 senior Church of England figures, including the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of York, said the government’s “immoral” plans [...]

  • Government outlines plans to block ‘foreign influences’ from compromising UK universities

    June 13, 2022

    The UK government is seeking to protect universities from “undue foreign influences that work against British values,” by forcing higher education institutions to report the financial links they have with individuals or organisations from overseas. The new rules, which could be introduced as part of an amendment to the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill, [...]

  • Government lambasted for ‘half-baked’ food strategy

    June 11, 2022

    The UK Government was lambasted for delivering a “half-baked” food strategy for England, with critics especially concerned about the apparent lack of a tax on sugar and salt. The plan was initially announced by cabinet minister Michael Gove in 2019 to make sure food was “safe, healthy and affordable,” for all. Gove appointed the co-founder [...]

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