Gordon Brown is demanding an emergency budget to address the “financial timebomb” that “will explode” in October and leave half of the UK’s population in fuel poverty, causing “a humanitarian crisis”. The former Labour prime minister said Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak must agree an emergency budget this week otherwise “parliament should be […]
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The Bank of England has raised interest rates by 0.5% to 1.75% and given a bleak warning that the UK faces a lengthy recession that will hit millions of the most vulnerable people hardest. UK interest rates are now at the highest level since January 2009 and today’s 0.5% hike is the steepest in 27 […]
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Trade unions have warned the UK faces a general strike if Liz Truss goes ahead with plans to further curb workers rights to take industrial action. The caution came on another day of rail strikes in Britain and a new vote by rail unions to escalate industrial action this summer, while Labour leader Sir Keir […]
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Commuters will face more travel disruptions throughout the summer as new rail strikes are on the horizon and train drivers at nine companies are set to walk out. After talks to agree on jobs, pay and conditions ended without resolution, 40,000 rail workers laid down tools again on Wednesday, leaving thousands of commuters stranded. Some […]
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On the back of an increase in spending on air travel, health and road haulage, the UK GDP has experienced a 0.5 per cent bounce this May after months and months of Covid-related stagnation and decrease. But the new Chancellor has warned of complacency, vowing to continue bearing “down on inflation”. And, during the first […]
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Criminal barristers in England and Wales have started their strike over low legal aid funding with a warning their profession faces an “existential crisis” because of severe cuts imposed by the government. Barristers say their incomes have decline by almost 30% in the last two decades. Specialist criminal barristers now earn less than the minimum […]
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British Airways workers at Heathrow airport have voted to strike with their industrial action set to cause even more chaos during the peak holiday season. Around 700 British Airways ground crew and check-in staff voted for strike action following a dispute with the airline over pay after BA used “fire and rehire” to cut workers […]
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Anger is growing at the government’s failure to engage in talks to avoid the UK’s biggest rail strikes in three decades. Transport secretary Grant Shapps is insistent that it is not the role of the government to negotiate rail workers’ pay and working conditions with unions. Shapps dismissed claims the government wants the strikes to […]
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The UK will have the weakest economic growth of all developed countries – except sanction hit Russia – next year, according to a new report by the OECD. Despite Boris Johnson claims about the UK economy, the organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) predicts a dire 2023 for Britain with no gross domestic product […]
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Airline bosses have hit back at transport secretary Grant Shapps for blaming them for the travel chaos saying government ministers have “scant” understanding about how their industry actually works. Shapps has accused airlines of “seriously” overselling flights they knew they would need to cancel, blaming the aviation sector for the chaos at UK airports and […]
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