Reform’s billionaire treasurer Nick Candy to hold face to face talks with Elon Musk amid reports of £100m donation
The Sun’s Kate Ferguson reports that the meeting between Musk and Candy could ‘come within days’.
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Eton claims it is having to slash bursaries due to VAT on private school fees-despite sitting on £553 million endowment fund
“When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.”
M&S food exports hampered by Brexit paperwork ‘nobody looks at’
‘So we’ve rented a warehouse to store these bits of paper that nobody looks at in the first place.’
MPs to hold demonstration outside Parliament demanding Israeli arms embargo
‘We believe the UK Government is on the wrong side of history, and must stop the sale of arms to Israel.’
MPs urge government to appoint ‘community resilience tsar’ to counter toxic far-right politics
‘Our current political system enables inequality, fuels distrust, and leaves too many people feeling powerless.’
Labour LGBT+ group voices ‘deep concern’ over Wes Streeting’s ban on puberty blockers
Streeting has said the blockers present ‘an unacceptable safety risk for children and young people’
Building 1.5 million homes: ‘It can be done – if we’re bold enough’
Starmer ‘is willing to stand up against populist trends to deliver on the big, difficult issues, and there’s none bigger than housing’.
Home Office move-on period: Refugees and charities ‘relieved’, but extension must be permanent
Refugees faced move-on periods that were too short to do basic things like open a bank account and find housing. Will the new 56-day move-on period help?
Keir Starmer responds to Kemi Badenoch’s sandwiches are ‘not a real food’ comment
‘I won’t touch bread if it’s moist’
Tory peer facing three-week suspension for calling peer ‘Lord Poppadom’ and touching MP’s hair
“It is clear from both Lord Dholakia’s and Bell Ribeiro-Addy’s complaints and interviews that the incident had a significant negative effect on each of them.”