British Airways’ plans to axe 12,000 jobs on August 7 has provoked an angry warning from the Unite union about an ‘immediate” ballot to strike. Unite has accused the airline of operating a “fire and rehire” policy and has written to BA pilots, cabin crew and engineers saying strike action is likely “with immediate effect”. […]
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The government is considering introducing an age-tax on over-40s to help fund the UK’s crisis-hit social care sector. A report that ministers are studying radical plans to hike tax or national insurance contributions for people aged over 40 has caused outrage after the Guardian claims the new plans will compel people to “insure themselves against […]
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Foreign secretary Dominic Raab has said the government will not apologise for its sudden decision to make British holiday makers enter 14 days quarantine on their return from Spain. Labour called last night’s (Saturday) snap announcement “shambolic” with British holiday makers left “confused and distressed” by the decision to take Spain off the Covid-19 safe-list […]
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Boris Johnson has been told to keep his “grubby, populist hands” off the judiciary following reports he is speeding up plans to curb the power of the courts to “extract revenge” for a humiliating legal defeat last autumn. Johnson is seeking to set up a panel to define in law the powers of the judicial […]
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The prime minister of the United Kingdom has declared the “sheer might” of the union has been underlined by the coronavirus pandemic. Boris Johnson – ahead of his first trip north of the border since the Covid-19 outbreak – said: “The last six months have shown exactly why the historic and heartfelt bond that ties […]
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With the clock to forge a trade deal between the UK and the EU ticking down, Downing Street has hinted in a Brexit talks update that current efforts may only produce an ‘outline’ of a future trade deal this year. Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, negotiations have been ongoing with little progress. It now appears that […]
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The Russia report has slammed the UK government for actively failing to investigate attempts by the Kremlin to meddle in the 2016 Brexit referendum. The report– which the government has sat on for nine months – was finally published today and damned the government for “not wanting to know” if Russia interfered in the UK’s […]
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Boris Johnson has laid out the next phase of lockdown lifting in England and admitted he is “hoping for the best and planning for the worst”. The prime minister’s goal is a “significant return to normality” by Christmas although Johnson stressed the government’s plan “remains conditional” on successfully controlling the coronavirus to prevent a second […]
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Russia “is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma” said Boris Johnson’s hero Winston Churchill in a famous quote that ends: “…but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.” And that key could prove to be the end and undoing of Johnson himself as his government today accused Russia […]
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This morning, detectives from the PSNI’s Major Investigation Team arrested a man and searched a house in Derry. Lyra McKee was shot dead in April 2019 during riots in Derry. Her death sparked renewed efforts to re-establish the political institutions in Northern Ireland which came to fruition earlier this year. In February, four men were […]
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