Exclusive: Starmer to back away from 2019 Labour manifesto with series of key speeches February 18, 2022 Sir Keir Starmer will try to definitively distance himself from Labour’s far-left 2019 election manifesto in a series of key speeches over the next few months. This will begin next week when the Labour leader makes a speech outlining his stance on some “meaty” economic issues as he sets out “a totally distinct path from [...]
Asylum seekers crossing English Channel no longer face prosecution July 8, 2021 The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) today said migrants who cross the English Channel seeking asylum in the UK will no longer be prosecuted. An agreement was struck between police, prosecutors, the National Crime Agency, Border Force and the Home Office over cases involving “illegal entry”. It will also apply to those arriving by lorry. However, [...]
FCA fines Credit Suisse over £147m for ‘tuna bond’ loan failures in Mozambique October 19, 2021 Credit Suisse has been fined over £147 million by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The investment bank has been punished for serious due diligence failings involving two loans worth over $1.3bn and a bond exchange arranged for the Republic of Mozambique. The fine settles a long-running US probe into Credit Suisse’s role in the Mozambique [...]
Putting out the fire in America June 6, 2020 Following almost two weeks of nationwide riots in the US in response to the sickening murder of George Floyd by a brutal Minneapolis police officer, this week I could in good conscience write of nothing else. Now is the time for the bravery to alienate both “sides”. Now is the time for truth-telling if the [...]
US diplomat’s wife Anne Sacoolas charged over the death of Harry Dunn December 20, 2019 Anne Sacoolas has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving over the death of teenage motorcyclist Harry Dunn, who died in a road crash in Northamptonshire in August. Sacoolas, the wife of a US intelligence officer based at the nearby RAF Croughton base, left the country for the US shortly afterwards, claiming diplomatic immunity. [...]
Harry Dunn’s mother opens up two years after fatal crash as focus switches to civil claim August 27, 2021 The mother of teenage motorcyclist Harry Dunn has said there is a “light at the end of the tunnel” in her quest for justice two years on from her son’s death. The 19-year-old was killed when a car crashed into his motorbike outside RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire on 27 August, 2019. Charlotte Charles, alongside Harry’s [...]
US recovers $2.3m from Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack June 7, 2021 US authorities today said they had recovered around $2.3m (£1.6m) in cryptocurrency from the ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline. US deputy attorney general Lisa Monaco said investigators had seized 63.7 Bitcoins, now valued at about $2.3m, paid by Colonial after last month’s hack that sparked major shortages at petrol stations along the east coast. [...]
From Scotland, with love: indulgent drink driving laws get us nowhere September 16, 2021 In December 2014, Scotland introduced a new policy modifying its drink-drive limit, to reduce the number of alcohol-fuelled traffic accidents. The legal limit was slashed from 80 to 50mg per 100ml of blood. Now, seven years later, a study published in the Journal of Health Economics has looked at the impact of the policy. The [...]
Carlos Ghosn warns the future of Nissan is ‘in doubt’ January 10, 2020 The former boss of Nissan, Carlos Ghosn, has said the future of the Japanese company is in doubt. Ousted chief Ghosn said the car firm’s struggling results and drop in share price were a concern, days after accusing Nissan executives and the Japanese government of plotting against him. He also said that if Brexit affected [...]
Disgraced former Tory MP Charlie Elphicke faces court for failing to pay £35k after sentence for sexual assault November 19, 2021 Disgraced former Tory MP Charlie Elphicke is facing fresh court proceedings after allegedly failing to pay £35,000 in prosecution costs following his sentence for sexually assaulting two women. The former Dover MP, 50, was jailed for two years in September 2020 after being found guilty of three counts of sexual assault following a month-long trial. [...]