Boris Johnson has not looked as cheerful for a long time as he did in the Commons today. His is a sunny nature and he does not like to be cast in the part of Charles Dickens’s Thomas Gradgrind — a sober man obsessed with numbers. That is a role he cedes happily to Sir … Read more
Nigel Farage was stopped from boarding a flight to the US amid the coronavirus travel ban but was finally allowed to attend a rally for President Donald Trump under a ‘national interest’ clause, officials have revealed. Mr Farage documented his journey to the States through the weekend, fanning speculation his friend the President helped him … Read more
Teachers are urged to give up part of summer holiday to deal with ‘national emergency’ as Gavin Williamson ‘faces the chop’ after bungling reopening Former education secretaries say teachers should return early from summer holiday to prepare for new term Boris Johnson’s team are ‘livid’ with Education Secretary Gavin Williamson for bungling schools reopening Plans for … Read more
Business lobby groups demand cuts to National Insurance bill ahead of mini-Budget By Helen Cahill For The Mail On Sunday Published: 22:32 BST, 20 June 2020 | Updated: 22:32 BST, 20 June 2020 Three major business lobby groups have demanded cuts to National Insurance bills in the mini-Budget next month. They have told the Treasury … Read more
Barack Obama’s national security adviser blasted the Trump administration as ‘racist to its core’ and said that electing Joe Biden as president was vital in order to ‘remove Donald Trump and consign those who supported him in the Senate to the trash heap of history.’ Susan Rice, who has been mentioned in recent weeks as … Read more
Now smart meters are delayed AGAIN: Deadline for the national rollout of new energy reading devices gets put back to June 2025 Smart meter rollout deadline is put back until June 2025 after repeated delays Just 31 per cent of homes had a functioning device at the end of last month The delays have been … Read more
The former head of MI6 has warned that it will take the West ‘two or three decades’ before they can build up rival companies to Huawei. Sir John Sawers, who was in charge of MI6 from 2009 up until 2014, said creating a rival company to the Chinese telecoms firm would take time and could … Read more
PAUL THOMAS on… the return of our national sport By Paul Thomas For The Daily Mail Published: 02:31 BST, 18 June 2020 | Updated: 02:31 BST, 18 June 2020 Advertisement To order a print of this Paul Thomas cartoon or one by Pugh, visit Mailpictures.newsprints.co.uk or call 0191 6030 178. Share or comment on this … Read more
More people have started taking barbecues to the countryside since lockdown measures started to ease, increasing the risk of wildfires, the National Trust warned. Park rangers have also seen a notable increase in the amount of litter being left behind by visitors, saying this poses a threat to wildlife who get caught up in it. … Read more
National Trust vows to highlight its properties’ links to slavery as bosses bring in colonialism expert after Black Lives Matter ‘watershed moment’ National Trust is set to inform the public about their locations’ colonial history Dr Corinne Fowler has been tasked with examining UK’s ‘Colonial Countryside’ Says visitors will be made aware of the exploitation that … Read more