Documents suggest husband passed on money from PPE Medpro, which secured £200m contracts after Mone lobbied ministers The Conservative peer Michelle Mone and her children secretly received £29m originating from the profits of a PPE business that was awarded large government contracts after she recommended it to ministers, documents seen […]
Month: November 2022
Rochdale Boroughwide Housing criticised after Awaab Ishak died from black mould exposure Michael Gove is to cut off £1m funding to the Rochdale housing association where two-year-old Awaab Ishak died from prolonged exposure to black mould, saying failing providers would not get future funding. The levelling up secretary said Rochdale […]
Support for LGBTQ+ rights and defiance of Fifa by team in Qatar Sleeves of warm-up kit and some players’ boots have rainbows A World Cup of protest and rancour has taken another incendiary turn with Germany’s players covering their mouths with their hands to suggest they had been gagged by […]
Officers deal out beatings amid dispute about pay and conditions at Zhengzhou plant, with Apple warning of iPhone 14 delivery delays Police in China have dealt out beatings to workers protesting over working conditions and pay at the biggest factory for iPhones, as the country tries to contain a surge […]
Government watchdog says £3.5bn aid in 20 years to 2020 failed to achieve aim of stabilising Afghan government The UK’s £3.5bn aid to Afghanistan between 2000 and 2020 was implicated in corruption and human rights abuses and failed to achieve its primary objective of stabilising the country’s government, an assessment […]
Exclusive: Doctors suffering ‘moral distress’ at their powerlessness to help most vulnerable, says head of the Royal College of GPs Ill patients are refusing sicknotes from their GP because they cannot afford time off work, while physicians suffer “moral distress” at their powerlessness to do more to help the most […]
About 50 MPs sign amendment to scrap mandatory local housing targets for councils Rishi Sunak is facing a rebellion of about 50 MPs who are demanding an end to housebuilding targets for councils, via an amendment which campaigners say would further hinder affordable homes. The amendment, led by the former […]
Family’s controversial era could be over after 17 years News comes on day Cristiano Ronaldo left the club The Glazer family has announced it is “commencing a process to explore strategic alternatives” for Manchester United, potentially bringing an end to its 17-year ownership of the club. On the day it […]
David Davis asks foreign secretary and Saudi ambassador to intervene in reprieve for Hussein Abo al-Kheir Saudi Arabia on Tuesday executed two more Saudi citizens for drug offences, taking the total number of executions in the past fortnight to 17. The kingdom had previously given a commitment it would not […]
Order ends committee’s three-year battle to receive returns former president has long refused to release The US supreme court will allow a congressional committee to receive copies of Donald Trump’s tax returns, ending a three-year battle by the Democratic-led body to see the documents the former president has famously refused […]