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The veteran Tory and City lobbyist advising Starmer’s business team

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In the not so distant past, Iain Anderson was a stalwart Tory with the CV to match. In a 2012 ranking of the UK’s most powerful financial lobbyists by the Bureau of …

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UK energy bills to rise by 80% in October as regulator announces hike

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LONDON — Britain’s energy regulator announced Friday it will raise its main cap on consumer energy bills to an average £3,549 from £1,971 a year, as campaign groups, think tanks …

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How the soaring cost of living is impacting asylum seekers

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For asylum seekers, who are given a paltry sum to live off by the Home Office, rising prices are set to make a desperate financial situation even worse. UK inflation …

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It appears Truss has a problem with solar panels but not with fracking

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Liz Truss has set out her energy plans and they might not seem the most likely to meet our net zero targets. Speaking to the TalkTV hustings in Exeter, Foreign Secretary Ms Truss revealed …

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UK economy is ‘grinding to a halt’ amid cost of living crisis

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The UK economy is “grinding to a halt” as a tightening cost of living squeeze sends a chill through private sector activity, reveals a closely watched survey. Households are cutting …

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Ethnicity pay monitoring ‘will boost economy by billions’

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The figure is based on calculations by Conservative peer Baroness Ruby McGregor-Smith, who’s 2017 report into racism at work found that the UK was losing the equivalent of 1.3% of GDP every …

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Lord Bethell and Matt Hancock to hand over private messages

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For months, Government has been refusing to hand over evidence in our challenge concerning Abingdon Health, the testing company awarded £85 million worth of contracts without competition. Yesterday we took …

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Johnson gambles on tax hike to pay for elder care

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LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Tuesday how he plans to keep a key election promise to grapple with the rocketing cost of long-term care for Britain’s …

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40 Lords reported to authorities over financial interests

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 Forty members of the House of Lords have been reported to parliamentary authorities, in what is believed to be one of the most wide-scale breaches of transparency rules ever reported …

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Scale of homelessness crisis this Christmas laid bare, as figures reveal ANOTHER rise under Tories

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There’s been a surge in the number of classed as either homeless or threatened with homelessness, according to new government figures. Campaigners have reacted with anger at ‘inaction’ on homelessness and social house …

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