Just before 8am yesterday morning, an articulated lorry rolled into the car park at Marie Curie’s West Midlands hospice, loaded up with personal protective equipment. Inside were boxes containing 200,000 aprons and 120,000 masks – all donated by Mail Force. The delivery marks the next stage of a Mail Force push, which will see 2.3million … Read more
Britain must face up to Moscow after ‘badly underestimating’ the Russian threat for years, MPs warned last night. In a devastating and long-awaited report, they said the UK took its ‘eye off the ball’ as the Kremlin waged a campaign of hacking, disinformation and political meddling. London – nicknamed ‘Londongrad’ – has become a ‘laundromat’ … Read more
China has warned Britain will ‘bear the consequences’ of suspending its extradition treaty with Hong Kong. Yesterday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab announced the suspension of an extradition treaty with Hong Kong, amid anger at alleged Chinese human rights abuses in the region, as well as against its Uighur Muslim population. A spokesman for the Chinese … Read more
China warned yesterday that Britain was heading down the ‘wrong path’ ahead of Dominic Raab announcing the suspension of an extradition treaty with Hong Kong. The Foreign Secretary pulled the reciprocal arrangement and also extended an arms embargo with China to the formerly autonomous city following Beijing’s imposition of a new national security law. Wang … Read more
Bristol’s black mayor reveals he has been racially abused by supporters of Black Lives Matter and Britain First in city’s statues row Marvin Rees has received abuse from ‘both sides’ of the debate over statues The Bristol mayor revealed he has had thousands of abusive and racist emails They include messages from Britain First and … Read more
Boris Johnson today insisted he will not be ‘pushed into becoming a knee jerk Sinophobe’ as he warned Britain cannot ‘completely abandon’ its relationship with China despite rising tensions with Beijing. The Prime Minister said the UK does have ‘serious concerns’ about China’s behaviour on issues like human rights abuses and Hong Kong. But he … Read more
Britain pours tens of millions of aid money into African five-star hotels, Indian celebrity chef’s cookware brand and Kenyan coffee shops CDC Group is supposed to make investments to benefit world’s poorest places It pumped £43million into international business hotel chain Onomo since 2017 It also invested into hotel chain Azalai which owns five-star hotels … Read more
The future of many cinemas across the country hangs in the balance. Despite the easing of lockdown, ensuing social distancing safety while earning enough revenue to stay afloat, means for some, they cannot reopen immediately. In terms of the big chains, Odeon and Showtime have reopened venues with social distancing measures in place, while Cineworld … Read more
Britain has signed deals with two foreign pharmaceutical giants for 90million doses of different experimental vaccines amid fears one of the world’s leading candidates won’t be ready by September — despite academics saying it could be ready for the autumn. Agreement has been reached for 30million doses from German firm BioNTech and Pfizer and 60million … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: If the post-Brexit Stock Exchange is to have any credibility, it must battle to bring Arm float back to London By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:52 BST, 19 July 2020 | Updated: 21:52 BST, 19 July 2020 When Cambridge-based smart-chip maker Arm Holdings was sold to Japan’s Softbank in July … Read more