‘It’s a total disaster,’ says whistleblower as Home Office brings in novice workers to clear backlog The Home Office is hiring asylum decision-makers from customer service and sales positions at McDonald’s, Tesco and Aldi as part of a recruitment drive to clear its huge backlog of asylum applications, the Observer […]
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Former UK-based vice-president Bruce Daisley thinks Tesla boss has underestimated the complexity of his restructuring plans Elon Musk “doesn’t know what he’s doing” with Twitter and is “making everyone alarmed”, a former executive has said, after major brands paused their advertising spend on the platform and the company laid off […]
Exclusive: walkout over pay due to take place before Christmas The biggest nursing strike in NHS history is set to take place before Christmas after union officials said that “large swathes of the country” had voted for industrial action. Patients who are already facing record waiting lists are now likely […]
Claims that the social media platform’s entire curation team was dismissed prompts fears content could become ‘more toxic’ Elon Musk ended his first week as Twitter’s owner with an indelible mark by slashing, by some estimates, up to half of the company’s workforce with little notice and abruptly cutting off […]
Late notice means services will still be affected; Royal Mail and CWU to start new talks over postal strikes Three 24-hour strikes by railway workers scheduled for the coming week have been called off, the RMT union has announced, saying it will now enter “a period of intensive negotiations” with […]
Veteran leader and his far-right allies win decisive 64 seats in 120-seat Knesset The former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has begun coalition negotiations on forming a government, after winning a decisive majority in Israel’s fifth election in four years with the help of ultra-Orthodox parties and a new alliance […]
Police watchdog says it has launched two investigations into the Civil Nuclear Constabulary officers Nine police officers are being investigated for the alleged use of discriminatory language while on duty, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has said. In a statement on Friday, the IOPC said it has launched […]
Exclusive: Staff disciplined after asylum seekers understood to have complained about attempts to sell them cannabis UK politics live – latest news updates Home Office contractors have been disciplined after trying to sell illegal drugs to asylum seekers at the crisis-hit processing centre at Manston in Kent. It is understood […]
Longest serving prime minister, who is still facing corruption charges, is expected to lead far-right coalition Israel’s prime minister, Yair Lapid, has called Benjamin Netanyahu to offer his congratulations on the opposition leader’s election win following the conclusion of vote counting in this week’s election. Netanyahu, the chair of the […]
Mayor tells Suella Braverman of his shock at people from Manston facility being left cold and hungry in capital ‘We were left by the road’: asylum seekers stranded in London describe experience Suella Braverman is facing demands from Sadiq Khan to launch an urgent review of how dozens of people […]