First quarter growth was 0.7pc, while the second quarter, announced last week, yielded a still healthy 0.6pc. This annualises at what, by the standards of the post-financial crisis slough of despond, is a positively rip-roaring 2.4pc. Much of this gain is admittedly just a rebound from last year’s mild recession; things are likely to slow...
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Britain might be leading the world on Net Zero, but no one is following
In China and much of the rest of the “developing world”, net zero targets appear to mean nothing at all beyond their usefulness in undermining the West. Economic growth is routinely prioritised over climate change goals. Similarly in the US, which pays lip service to net zero while simultaneously celebrating its position as the world’s...
Anti-immigration unrest hits parts of U.K., taking aim at hotel thought to house asylum seekers | CBC News
Anti-immigration protesters broke hotel windows and set bins on fire in northern England on Sunday in the latest wave of unrest that has presented a major test to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s new government. Violent protests involving hundreds of anti-immigration protesters have erupted in towns and cities across Britain after three girls were killed in...
UK grapples with worst riots in 13 years
LONDON: UK authorities faced growing pressure Sunday to put an end to England’s worst rioting in 13 years after disturbances linked to child murders and involving far-riot agitators flared across the country. Unrest related to misinformation about a mass stabbing that killed three young girls last week spread to multiple towns and cities on Saturday...
Ex-Labour MP calls for ‘Covid-style’ response to rioting across Britain: ‘The public will back them in whatever measures they feel necessary’
A former Labour MP and government advisor has called for a ‘Covid-style’ response to scenes of rioting across the UK. Baron Walney, John Woodcock, the UK Government’s adviser on political violence and disruption, says police should be prepared to step in if it appears troublemakers are travelling to incite riots. It comes following clashes between...
Workers get right to flexible working from their first day
Workers will be automatically entitled to flexible hours from the first day in their job under a major overhaul of employment rights unveiled in the King’s Speech. Existing rights to request family-friendly hours, which put the onus on the employee to ask for them, will be changed to a presumption for all workers to have...
Labour to launch state-owned Great British Energy in £8.3bn market intervention
Labour is pushing ahead with plans to launch a state-owned energy company backed up with £8.3bn of taxpayer funds, in one of the biggest market interventions for decades. In the King’s Speech, Sir Keir Starmer’s new Government confirmed that Great British Energy will develop, own and operate energy projects such as wind farms, using public...
Britain will be an Islamist country under Labour, claims Trump VP pick
Donald Trump’s pick for vice-president has said Labour will turn the UK into the world’s first Islamist nuclear power. JD Vance, who was nominated to be Trump’s running mate at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Monday, made the comments at last week’s National Conservatism Conference. His reference to Labour’s landslide victory could complicate...
Labour is about to crush what’s left of Britain’s economy
Likewise, Amazon has made next day delivery of just about anything you can think of completely standard, creating vast wealth in the process. It might be worth pausing to consider what the entrepreneurs behind those successes had got right, but instead Labour’s allies just want to destroy them. Finally, while we may not always commercialise...
How Victoria Starmer transformed first lady dressing in one week
One week you’re quietly getting on with life working for the NHS in occupational health, the next you’re rubbing shoulders with world leaders at a Nato summit in Washington as the UK’s (unofficial) “first lady”. It’s been quite the transition for Lady Starmer, a woman who had mostly remained in the shadows throughout her husband’s...
Report: Digital Job Growth in UK Hits Lowest Level in Decade
Great Britain’s digital sector is reportedly seeing its slowest job growth in a decade. As Bloomberg News reported Thursday (July 11), this has led the incoming Labour government to promise to revitalize the industry as it seeks to fuel growth. The number of digital jobs climbed by just 0.3% last year — the lowest figure since a...
What the remaking of Labour reveals about Sir Keir Starmer
TO THOSE WHO question his readiness to be prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer has a message: look at how he has run the opposition. “I have changed this Labour Party, dragged it back to service, and I will do exactly the same for Westminster,” he told a rally early on in the general-election campaign. It...