End of duty-free ‘will cost billions’: Luxury goods firms including Gucci and Tiffany warn that ending VAT refunds will hit UK economy hard Rishi Sunak is ending VAT refunds for international visitors to British shops It is estimated the move could cost the economy up to £3.5billion 11 leading luxury firms have written to Chancellor … Read more
Boris Johnson‘s former lover has blasted him a ‘puppet’ and a ‘Great supine protoplasmic invertebrate jelly’ for congratulating Joe Biden. Jennifer Arcuri, 35, slammed the Prime Minister on Twitter for congratulating Joe Biden before he has been officially named President. Mr Johnson tweeted to say: I just spoke to Joe Biden to congratulate him on … Read more
Boris Johnson was urged to make a fully functioning test and trace system his Government‘s ‘number one overwhelming priority’ in the summer in an extra-ordinary intervention by his predecessors in Number 10. Former chancellor George Osborne has revealed that Conservatives David Cameron and Sir John Major and the Labour former prime ministers Gordon Brown and … Read more
Boris Johnson believes he was bounced into ordering a second national lockdown, a Cabinet ally said last night. The Prime Minister reluctantly signed off a new lockdown in England last weekend after being warned by Government scientists that deaths could rise to 4,000 a day – four times the peak seen in April. The decision … Read more
Drone projects to deliver Covid-19 supplies including PPE and testing kits across the country receive share of £33 million in UK government funding One winner will deliver PPE and Covid tests to rural Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Today 20 companies have been announced which will share £7.35 million Nine of these are specifically tailored to … Read more
Saira Khan has branded repeated regional and national lockdowns ‘a disaster for future generations’ while dismissing the negative response to her controversial rant on Monday’s edition of Loose Women. The outspoken presenter, 50, prompted 18 calls to TV regulator Ofcom after claiming the country shouldn’t be punished with enforced restrictions due to a ‘minority of … Read more
An official prediction that coronavirus deaths would soon pass those registered in the first wave has been quietly corrected by the government, it emerged last night, because they were too high. The projections led to the country being hit with a second national lockdown and were shown at a Downing Street press conference last Saturday. … Read more
Hundreds of workers who have recently lost their jobs are furious with Rishi Sunak after he said the furlough scheme will be extended until the end of March. In a major Government U-turn the Chancellor said the move is needed to quell the economic situation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The job furlough scheme had been due to … Read more
Loose Women star Saira Khan has reportedly sparked complaints to media watchdog Ofcom after slamming the government for announcing a second COVID-19 lockdown. The presenter, 50, furiously claimed the nation should be punished for a ‘minority’ of rule breakers as it isn’t ‘a totalitarian state,’ days before England was plunged into a month-long lockdown to try … Read more
Rishi Sunak extended the furlough scheme until March today amid renewed lockdowns and demands from Nicola Sturgeon. In another dramatic policy shift, the Chancellor admitted in a statement to the Commons that the recovery had ‘slowed’ and businesses now faced heightened ‘uncertainty’. Workers will be able to get furlough at 80 per cent of their … Read more