Reduction follows CMA plans to grill executives about ‘sustained higher margins’ but RAC says retailers should go further Supermarkets have cut more than 7p a litre from the price of diesel since the UK’s competition watchdog warned it would question retail bosses about unnecessarily high forecourt prices, according to the […]
Former prime minister gives tranche of documents to the Cabinet Office, challenging officials to pass them on Boris Johnson has handed over a major cache of WhatsApp messages and notebooks to the Cabinet Office, challenging it to release the documents unredacted to the Covid inquiry. In a move that will […]
Amazon UK Services received tax credit of £7.7m for investment in infrastructure under Rishi Sunak’s super-deduction scheme Amazon’s main UK division has paid no corporation tax for the second year in a row after benefiting from tax credits on a chunk of its £1.6bn of investment in infrastructure, including robotic […]
Two children among the dead, while another 14 people have been injured according to city officials in the Ukraine capital Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 463 of the invasion Some analysis here from the Institute for the Study of War on the recent attacks on […]
Ex-leader of Conservatives says Canadian Security Intelligence briefed him on a ‘Chinese-orchestrated campaign’ to manipulate the vote Canada’s spy agency told former Conservative party leader Erin O’Toole that China campaigned to discredit him and suppress votes ahead of the 2021 election he lost to Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, O’Toole has said. […]
Gender-critical feminist’s speech temporarily stopped after protester glues themself to floor The gender-critical feminist Dr Kathleen Stock was forced to temporarily halt her contested appearance at the Oxford Union after a trans activist glued themself to the debating chamber close to the speaker’s chair. Stock, who argues that transgender people […]
Reports say members of CMS committee will discuss the handling of the issue with executives MPs are reportedly planning on questioning ITV executives over This Morning presenter Phillip Schofield’s affair with a younger male colleague. It came as the Prince’s Trust said it had dropped Schofield as an ambassador. “In […]
State media say the projectile plunged into the sea, after briefly sparking emergency warnings in South Korea and Japan North Korea’s first spy satellite launch has ended in failure after its second stage malfunctioned, sending the projectile plunging into the sea, the country’s state media has said, with the regime […]
PM challenged as Cabinet Office battles to withhold Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp messages from Covid inquiry Rishi Sunak has been accused of attempting to cover up the actions of ministers during the pandemic as the Cabinet Office intensified its battle to withhold Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp messages from the Covid inquiry. The […]
But property website warns that rebound in activity could be hit by rising mortgage rates More prospective house sellers are returning to the UK’s property market, pushing agreed home sales to their highest point of the year in May, according to Zoopla, although it warned that the rebound in activity […]