The government has said its first international investment summit since Labour’s general election landslide has secured a total of £63bn of pledges to plough money into the British economy. The investments announced, which include the £63bn of private-sector promises as well as public investment, include: £6.3bn on datacentres, including a £1.9bn datacentre campus at Didcot…
Rail passengers could be entitled to compensation after Northern was accused of breaking its fare evasion rules to prosecute commuters. The train operator said on Monday all prosecutions of people accused of using a 16-25 railcard to obtain a discount at the wrong time of day were being withdrawn and thousands of previous cases reviewed.…
Sir Keir Starmer’s pro-business stance signalled to voters that Labour has shifted from the days of Jeremy Corbyn. However, expectations of a Labour government – equality, fairness, and social justice – remain. Voters wouldn’t be impressed by ministers arguing for freedom from regulations that protect against unscrupulous companies seeking to maximise profit at the cost of…
Ku Klux Klan members light torches. Now, some say, Bath & Body Works provided them candles to light, too. The retail chain recently released a candle, labeled “Snowed In”, that critics argued resembled the hoods and robes worn by the white supremacist group. After an outcry on social media, the company explained that the designers…
The rolling stock firm Porterbrook paid out £80m in dividends to its mainly overseas shareholders last year, accounts show, fuelling further calls for Britain’s trains to be nationalised. The firm’s train leasing arm made profits of £144m in 2023, when the railway was still beset by strikes over frozen pay and passengers faced widespread cancellations…
The Guardian’s Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey look at the government’s international investment summit, and how talk of slashing ‘red tape’ is going down among Labour MPs. And, after the death of the ex-SNP leader and former first minister of Scotland, Alex Salmond, what will his legacy be? Support the Guardian today: theguardian.com/politicspod Source: www.theguardian.com
US consumer safety officials announced recently they had ordered the recall of 2m Fisher-Price baby swings after they were linked to at least five infants’ deaths and posed a suffocation risk. The product, the Snuga Swing, was “doomed to fail” according to a commissioner with the US Product Safety Commission, which said infants should never…
Bosses at two of Europe’s biggest car manufacturers have called an acceleration of Europe’s transition to electric vehicles as tensions continue in the EU over the race to ban the traditional combustion engine. Carlos Tavares, the chief executive of Stellantis, which owns the Peugeot, Vauxhall, Jeep and Citroën brands, and Martin Sanger, the sales chief…
The Post Office tried to use selective positive comments about the reliability of the Horizon IT system from a damning high court judgment to try to get police to review a decision not to launch criminal proceedings against a post office operator earlier this year, it has emerged. More than 550 post office operators –…
Losses at the Evening Standard have topped more than £100m, highlighting the financial pressure on the title, which last month stopped daily publishing in the capital after almost 200 years. The Evening Standard, which has rebranded as the London Standard in a move to become a digital-first publication supported by a weekly print edition, reported…
