Business groups hit back over £36k migrant salary proposals August 11, 2019 Business groups have slammed proposals to raise the salary threshold for immigrant workers to £36,700 after Brexit, warning the move would harm British companies. Home secretary Priti Patel has been urged to increase the proposed salary minimum of £30,000 for all new foreign workers in a bid to protect lower skilled, UK-born employees. Read more: [...]
Boris Johnson to face court over claims he lied in Brexit referendum campaign May 29, 2019 Boris Johnson's defence team has slammed a decision to summon him to court over claims he made in the run up to 2016's EU referendum. Johnson will appear at Crown Court to answer accusations of misconduct while in public office over his comments during the referendum that the UK sent the EU £350m per week, a [...]
Politicians have abandoned economics for paternalism August 30, 2018 Have advocates of lifestyle and environmental regulation given up pretending that the policies they advocate are grounded in good economic analysis? Two stories from last week suggest so. The first was reporting around a new study by the Global Burden of Disease project, which concluded that even moderate drinking increases the risk of alcohol-related health [...]
Bank of Scotland fined £45m for failing to report HBOS fraud June 21, 2019 Bank of Scotland has been hit with a £45.5m fine for failing to report suspicions of fraud at its Reading branch. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said there was “insufficient challenge, scrutiny or inquiry across the organisation and from top to bottom”. Read more: Lloyds bank avoids shareholder revolt over pension pay The bank identified [...]
Police anti-fraud unit and UK finance industry prevent record £94m losses in 2018 February 18, 2019 A record £94m of losses were prevented last year by an anti-fraud police unit backed by the UK finance industry. The City of London Police’s Dedicated Card and Payment Crime Unit (DCPCU) said it arrested 164 suspects in 2018, securing 48 convictions in the process. Read more: Crime in the Square Mile hits a three-year [...]
The future of justice depends on fixing the forensic science crisis May 13, 2019 Forensic science is a compelling piece of the puzzle in most crime dramas. We are fascinated by it, and rightly so – what science enables us to detect has transformed how we reconstruct criminal events, whether using digital information like phone data and automated recognition technologies, or detecting DNA traces that often go unnoticed. And [...]
Tensions mount as Trump and Congress face off over Mueller report May 8, 2019 The political battle on Capitol Hill escalated this evening as Congress sparred with President Donald Trump over access to special counsel Robert Mueller’s full report on Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election. Read more: Trump says he knows why China U-turned on US trade deal Trump moved to block an effort by House Democrats [...]
We deserve a Prime Minister who isn’t blind to the case for cannabis June 21, 2018 No one could follow the story of Billy Caldwell, the 12-year-old boy who suffers from debilitating, potentially fatal seizures, and fail to be outraged by a bureaucratic system that denies him the cannabis treatment he needs. No one, that is, except Theresa May. The latest this week is that the government is finally going to [...]
Major multi-national fraud probe into Airbus could settle this year May 23, 2019 Airbus could reach a settlement with British, French and US authorities in a long-running fraud investigation as soon as this year, sources with knowledge of the case told City A.M. The UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) opened an investigation into Airbus’ use of third party consultants to win international aircraft orders in August 2016. French [...]
Huawei denies all 23 indictments levelled against it by the US January 29, 2019 Huawei has denied a series of criminal charges levelled at it by the US last night. The Department of Justice accused China’s premier smartphone maker of stealing trade secrets and defrauding banks into breaking sanctions against Iran. Read more: US authorities file criminal charges against Huawei Huawei denied wrongdoing in a statement this morning, and [...]