Budget 2021 at a glance Here are the main points of Rishi Sunak’s Budget today: Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) predicts economy will return to pre-Covid levels by the middle of 2022, six months earlier than previously though. OBR forecast economy will grow this year by 4 per cent, by 7.3 per cent in 2022, … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: The figures are frightening… God help us if interest rates go up By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 22:16 GMT, 3 March 2021 | Updated: 22:17 GMT, 3 March 2021 Never in peacetime has a Chancellor of any political hue lavished sums so generously as Rishi Sunak to preserve jobs and … Read more
Galloping down the home straight, seven-year-old Morgan was just six-and-a-half lengths behind the winning horse when he crossed the finishing line in fourth place. The going was good that day, as they say in the racing world. Conditions at Wexford racecourse in Ireland were warm and mostly sunny as Morgan, who had been 5 to … Read more
Almost 55,000 Covid-infected people in England have not received their positive test results since the start of the second wave because they have not filled in all the paperwork or gave incorrect details, official data has revealed. NHS Test and Trace figures showed 54,551 coronavirus-positive patients have not provided any communication details such as email … Read more
Alison Brie and her husband Dave Franco cut very casual figures as they step out together on a coffee run in Los Angeles By Sam Joseph Semon For Dailymail.com Published: 21:12 GMT, 28 February 2021 | Updated: 21:12 GMT, 28 February 2021 Alison Brie and her husband Dave Franco stepped out for a shared coffee … Read more
The vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca is stunningly effective at preventing recipients becoming seriously ill from Covid-19, new analysis shows. It is even better than the Pfizer jab at stopping people getting so sick that they need to be admitted to hospital, Ministers have been told. A single shot of either jab cuts the … Read more
The UK granted asylum or offered some form of protection to almost 10,000 people last year – falling by more than half that of 2019, new figures show. Protection in the form of asylum, humanitarian protection, alternative forms of leave and resettlement was offered to 9,936 people in 2020, said the Home Office. This figure … Read more
House sales in the UK soared by a quarter in January – despite lockdown – as buyers make a ‘sprint finish’ to beat next month’s stamp duty holiday deadline. More than 120,000 residential property sales were recorded last month, according to new figures released by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). The figure is a 24.1 … Read more
The CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, is said to have personally overseen changes on the social media platform’s content policy that would allow the site to ‘go easy’ on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and the website run by him, InfoWars. InfoWars is an American far-right conspiracy theory and fake news website owned Jones who was … Read more
Facebook is accused of misleading advertisers with inflated and ‘wrong’ figures about how many users adverts reach Facebook has been fighting a lawsuit over claims it overstated advertisers’ reach Employees warned about ‘revenue we should never have made’, filings show ‘Potential reach metric’ informs advertisers of their potential online audience Bosses allegedly chose not to … Read more