‘Day of shame’: Rishi Sunak apologises for infected blood scandal May 20, 2024 Rishi Sunak has made a “wholehearted and unequivocal apology” for the infected blood scandal in what he said was a “day of shame” for the British state.
Why do politicians put up with insults from pensioners? May 20, 2024 You’d expect the Prime Minister to be thick-skinned but when he has expended so much literal and political capital on pensioners only to be accused of hating them you wonder how he keeps his cool, says Joseph Dinnage Being a frontline politician, particularly in the age of the keyboard pundit, is not a job for [...]
Janet Street-Porter embodies this country’s pensioner problem May 17, 2024 Where on earth does Loose Women's Janet Street-Porter get the idea Rishi Sunak 'hates pensioners'? The entire Conservative agenda is built around appeasing this entitled generation and the rest of us are paying for it
Sunday Times Rich List: Rishi Sunak worth over £650m May 17, 2024 Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty are worth more than £650m, the Sunday Times Rich List has revealed.
Memo to Sunak and Reeves: you can’t have security without prosperity May 16, 2024 Both Rachel Reeves and Rishi Sunak want to frame the next election around the question of who will make you safer, but both are missing the point
Graduate visa ‘does not offer any skills value’ to UK labour market, MP claims May 15, 2024 The graduate visa system “does not offer any value to the skills of the UK labour market”, an Conservative MP has claimed.
Explainer-in-brief: Civil servants banned from wearing ‘politicised’ lanyards May 13, 2024 'Common sense minister' Ester McVey is cracking down on "pointless job creation" and banning lanyards as part of Civil Service reform.
AI giant Coreweave in £1bn UK investment as London picked for new European HQ May 10, 2024 An American artificial intelligence (AI) group has announced plans to invest £1bn in the UK after opening a new office in London as its European headquarters.
Recession over as UK GDP grows faster than expected in first quarter May 10, 2024 Economists think the UK will grow 0.4 per cent this year, although the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) expects a 0.8 per cent expansion.
Starmer ‘delighted’ by ex-Tory MP Natalie Elphicke’s defection to Labour May 8, 2024 Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke has defected to join the Labour Party, with an attack on the “broken promises of Rishi Sunak’s tired and chaotic government”.