+++ Spending Review Live +++
+++ Spending Review Live +++ Where we’re at, and forecasts: £280bn to get the country through Coronavirus this year £18bn earmarked initially for Covid response next year, plus £3bn for NHS recover, £2bn for transport and £3bn to local councils, £250m to help end...
Public Overwhelmingly Thinks Too Much Money Goes on Foreign Aid
Public Overwhelmingly Thinks Too Much Money Goes on Foreign Aid YouGov’s most recent polling shows that 60% of the British public think too much of their taxes are being spent on foreign aid. Polling has consistently shown this to be the public’s view for a long time....
Viewing Figures Crash to Under a Million for Question Time
Viewing Figures Crash to Under a Million for Question Time Live viewing figures for the BBC’s flagship political show Question Time have slumped to historic lows, with an episode last month achieving just 620,000 viewers. Last Thursday also achieved a live audience of...
May: Women Leaders are More Interested in Delivering
May: Women Leaders are More Interested in Delivering The Zoom social event of the season was broadcast last night as countless MPs, Boris, David Cameron, Theresa May, Gyles Brandreth, Tim Montgomerie and a number of Peers joined together for the 15th-anniversary...
Own Nothing & Be Happy – The New Normal?
In 2016 the world witnessed two of the most seismic political events in modern day history, namely the UK’s Referendum on EU membership resulting in Brexit and the election of President Donald J. Trump in the US. I think it is fair to say that today we see the two...
The Health Foundation: What should the Government do to tackle obesity? Find out in our new podcast.
This is a sponsored post by The Health Foundation. The Health Foundation’s new podcast series promises to delve into the most important issues affecting the future of health and care for people in the UK. Hosted by Dr Jennifer Dixon, Chief Executive of the Health...
Hair salon owner fined £27,000 for opening during Covid19 lockdown
Advertisements A hair salon owner is now facing £27,000 in fines for repeatedly opening in breach of Covid-19 lockdown rules. Sinead Quinn was working at Quinn Blakey Hairdressers in Oakenshaw, Bradford, on Saturday when Kirklees Council officers issued a £4,000...
15-year-old schoolgirl sexually assaulted by 3 men on her way home from school
Advertisements A teenage girl was the victim of a sexual assault by three men as she walked home from school, the 15-year-old was attacked as she approached an alleyway in East Finchley, North London, police say. Police are looking to speak to a man who helped the...
Newslinks for Wednesday 25th November 2020
Spending Review 1) Sunak targets Covid-19 jobless with £4.3bn support package “Rishi Sunak is to acknowledge that the coronavirus pandemic will lead to a steep rise in long-term unemployment today when he announces a £4.3 billion package to help the jobless. The...
There is more at stake in any push to cut the 0.7 per cent target than the future of aid policy
ConservativeHome is a pro-aid site. It shares that view with our members’ panel, at least when we last probed its take in detail. Like Party members, if the survey was representative of their views, we stand solidly behind the core functions of aid: emergency...
