Exclusive: Unions warn proposal to reduce payouts by a quarter as headcount shrinks could lead to industrial action Ministers are planning to reduce redundancy pay for civil servants while cutting 91,000 Whitehall jobs, setting up a bitter confrontation that unions warned may lead to legal and industrial action. The proposals […]
Year: 2022
Unsealing the document could reveal the scope of the inquiry against Donald Trump, whose team is rattled by recent events The US Justice Department has asked a judge not to release the affidavit that gave the FBI probable cause to search Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, worsening distrust among top aides […]
Investment is needed to help country recover from drought, say politicians and campaigners What are UK water company chief executives paid? Water company bosses should be stripped of their multimillion-pound bonuses until they fix leaks and build reservoirs, politicians and campaigners have said as the country is gripped by drought. […]
PM believed to be in Greece on second summer break in three weeks amid ‘zombie’ government accusations Politics live: latest updates Downing Street has admitted that Boris Johnson will not be working on his holiday unless he is needed urgently, after he faced criticism for taking a second break abroad […]
Supermarket Iceland is part of scheme to offer sums of £25 to £100 to buy everyday items A zero-interest loans scheme aimed at helping thousands of people who are struggling to put food on the table is being rolled out across the UK. The initiative, the result of a link-up […]
Keir Starmer says people won’t pay ‘a penny more’ and that plan would reduce inflation Keir Starmer has put a beefed-up £8bn windfall tax on energy company profits at the heart of a new plan to stop people having to pay “a penny more” on fuel bills this winter. The […]
Data shows just 43,000 EU citizens received visas for work, family, study or other purposes in 2021 The number of EU citizens moving to the UK has plunged since Brexit closed the doors to low-paid workers, according to a report. The dramatic decline in migration from the EU has hit […]
As farms look further afield for labour, investigation finds Kent pickers saying they struggle to pay fees charged by unlicensed brokers Indonesian labourers picking berries on a farm that supplies Marks & Spencer, Waitrose, Sainsbury’s and Tesco say they have been saddled with debts of up to £5,000 by unlicensed […]
Ralph Henry Reese, co-founder of project that offers exiled writers refuge, says attack should serve as wake up call – and call to action Moments before Salman Rushdie was nearly murdered at a public event in western New York on Friday, he had signed up to become a roving envoy […]
Government policy amounts to ‘keeping fingers crossed’ rather than acting to adapt to changing climate, says infrastructure chief England is failing to invest in the water networks needed to avoid a future of recurrent serious droughts, with current policies amounting to the government “keeping [its] fingers crossed”, the UK’s infrastructure […]