Top CEOs pocket £3.6m in pay figures, so where’s the Bank of England’s call for pay restraint?
‘CEOs are pocketing around £3.6 million in pay, while others face the appalling choice of whether they can heat or eat’
Basit Mahmood
Labour takes 11-point lead in the polls as Boris Johnson faces growing calls to quit
The results present the largest Labour lead in a Savanta ComRes poll since the start of February.
Supermarkets warn Boris Johnson return to imperial measures will push up prices and worsen cost of living crisis
‘Reintroducing measurements in pounds and ounces would be a “distraction” from the huge problems facing the country’.
Vote of no confidence in Boris Johnson inches closer as letters pile up
Following the publication of the Sue Gray report, the number of Tory MPs openly calling for Johnson to quit has grown, with three new names surfacing on Monday
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UK tax authority admits it’s clueless about how much tax is being evaded through offshore assets
‘UK residents had £850bn in financial accounts overseas — of which £570bn was based in tax havens — in 2019, the latest year HMRC has released statistics for.’
Civil servants ‘lobbied Sue Gray to remove names’ from Partygate report
It is alleged that initially up to 30 names had been scheduled to be featured in the report, however in the end the report included just 15.
Channel 4 gives the perfect response to Nadine Dorries over privatisation claims
“C4 is in excellent financial health & does not want or need to raise outside capital to fund its future plans.”
BBC Question Time audience slams timing of Rishi Sunak’s £400 energy bill discount
If the Sue Gray report hadn’t had come out we wouldn’t be getting this windfall tax.
Rishi Sunak announces oil and gas companies will get a tax cut if they extract more fossil fuels
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced that oil and gas companies will get a big tax cut if they extract more fossil fuels in the UK, as he set out measures to help people with the cost of living crisis.