From frumpy fashion to TikTok trendsetter: How M&S regained its high street crown November 8, 2023 Marks & Spencer (M&S) has once again found itself back in fashion with investors and shoppers, posting a near £100m in rise in profits in its half year results. Shares in the company rocketed over 10 per cent this morning after the century-old business said its turnaround plan which intends to make the brand look [...]
Explainer: Labour’s plans for education, from breakfast clubs to private schools July 3, 2023 This week is very much education and health week. We celebrate the 75th anniversary of the NHS on Wednesday, while teachers go on strike on the same day and on Friday too. Labour is focusing on education, with a big speech from Keir Starmer expected later this week on opportunities and access. This means Shadow [...]
Explainer-in-brief: UK and EU at loggerheads over Northern Ireland May 10, 2022 The Northern Ireland protocol saga is back following Sinn Féin’s extraordinary assembly election victory last week. The Democratic Unionist Party has said it won’t return to government and form a coalition unless the protocol is scrapped. The post-Brexit agreement between the UK and the EU – meant to regulate checks of goods travelling between the [...]
Row over why London built just one affordable home a month August 15, 2023 A row has broken out over why London has built just one affordable home a month, amid warnings the capital’s housing crisis is fast catapulting into an emergency situation. Figures published today reveal just three affordable homes were started by City Hall during April, May and June 2023 – while stats for previous years extend [...]
Rees-Mogg brushes off U-turn on scrapping 45p tax rate as ‘just politics’ October 3, 2022 The government’s stunning decision to U-turn on its plan to slash taxes for the country’s highest earners has been described as “just politics” by business secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg. Rees-Mogg said at a Tory conference fringe event today that “it is a political reality that sometimes things you want to do don’t receive the approbation of [...]
Truss tells Tory MPs: Unite behind me or face defeat to Labour October 9, 2022 Liz Truss has told her own Tory backbenchers that they must unite behind her leadership or face electoral wipeout at the hands of Labour. Number 10 and several cabinet ministers have today come out to warn rebel MPs about Tory disunity, after a party conference marked by vicious infighting and attacks on Truss. Former cabinet [...]
Michael Gove: Brexit deal can be struck if EU loses its ‘ideological fastness’ May 19, 2020 Michael Gove has said a zero tariff, zero quota trade deal can be done with the EU if its negotiators shed their “ideological fastness” during talks. The Cabinet Office Minister updated MPs today on Brexit trade negotiations, claiming the EU “wants us to obey the rules of their club, essentially, even though we are no [...]
Sunak insists UK is not a ‘laughing stock’ as he fails to rule on HS2’s future October 1, 2023 Rishi Sunak has insisted the UK is not a “laughing stock” as he failed to announce a decision on whether HS2 will ever reach Manchester.
Gove admits Treasury doesn’t know how it will fund Right to Buy scheme June 13, 2022 The government does not know how it will fund its newly announced Right to Buy scheme, housing secretary Michael Gove has admitted. Gove today said the Treasury has “agreed that it will be funded”, but that the government is not in “a position yet to say entirely how” that will happen and that ministers now [...]
As fifth anniversary of Grenfell tragedy approaches, almost 10,000 high-rises still have dangerous cladding June 10, 2022 Almost 10,000 tower blocks still have ‘unsafe’ cladding as the country prepares to mark five years since the Grenfell disaster. Levelling Up secretary Michael Gove was unable to give the full figure while speaking to LBC earlier today, before the radio station obtained the data from the department laying bare that hundreds of thousands are [...]