Firms call for interest rate cuts as taxes bite
Business leaders last night urged the Bank of England to press ahead with interest rate cuts this week. The heads of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) and Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) told the…
Pensioners race to cash in pots to beat Rachel Reeves’s inheritance tax raid
Pension withdrawals have spiked in the wake of the Government’s announcement of a tax raid on inherited pots. The amount taken out of retirement funds jumped by almost a quarter to £5billion in the first three months of this year,…
Keir Starmer could recognise a Palestinian state with Hamas still in power – despite PM facing fresh backlash after terror group praises his move
Sir Keir Starmer could recognise a Palestinian state with Hamas still in power, Downing Street suggested today. The Prime Minister last week announced Britain would recognise Palestinian statehood in September, ahead of the UN General Assembly. This is unless Israel meets certain conditions, such as allowing more aid into Gaza,…
Why I joined the Southport riots: One year after anti-migrant unrest rocked Britain, one jailed protester reveals reasons he took part – and why he still has no regrets
A rioter jailed for attacking a Rotherham asylum hotel has refused to apologise to the migrants inside in a BBC documentary marking a year on from the civil disorder sparked by the Southport murders. Ross Hart, 30, attacked a police van and air…
Nigel Farage will NOT pledge to ban trans inmates from women’s jails
Nigel Farage has failed to commit to banning trans women from female prisons after his new justice adviser said they should not be automatically barred. Vanessa Frake, a former prison governor who oversaw the detention of Rose West, said decisions on…
Labour’s small boat migrant deal with France will expire in just 11 MONTHS, Home Office reveals, as scheme prepares for launch this week
Labour is facing new questions over its small boats deal with France after it emerged the agreement will expire in just 11 months. The much-trumpeted deal with Emmanuel Macron’s government will lapse at the end of June next year – just 47 weeks…
The huge cartel cocaine ‘mother ships’ that constantly circle Britain: Inside the cat and mouse battle on the high seas between drug lords and special forces
Police and special forces are fighting a cat and mouse game against the scourge of cartel ‘mother ships’, which circle Britain laden with cocaine before throwing their hauls overboard so they can be picked up by smugglers. The National Crime Agency (NCA) says tens…
Sir Keir Starmer calls for police to be ‘as transparent as possible’ over ethnicity of sex offence suspects: PM forced to step in as Nigel Farage leads fury over ‘cover-up of alleged attack on girl, 12, by Afghans’
Sir Keir Starmer has called for the police to be as ‘transparent as possible’ about the ethnicity of suspected sex offenders. The Prime Minister was forced to respond on Monday after Nigel Farage’s demanded that police disclose the backgrounds of those charged with…
Fears Russia will sink its own ships in a ‘false flag’ and blame the West after the Kremlin accused Britain of preparing ‘mass raids’
Russia is feared to be preparing false flag attacks on its shadow fleet of sea vessels in order to deter the West from further sanctioning them. According to reports from the SVR, Moscow‘s foreign intelligence service, is said to have claimed that…
Rachel Reeves issued major warning by business bosses over jobs
Rachel Reeves risks “confining Britain’s young people to the scrapheap” without extra support for businesses to hire junior staff, more than 100 bosses have warned. Top figures from Toyota and manufacturing firm JCB are among the 125 senior businesspeople to have…