The UK’s largest animal welfare charity has warned that the new Trade and Agriculture Commission is a ‘Trojan horse’ that risks undermining the nation’s world-leading farm and food standards. Giving its backing to The Mail on Sunday’s Save Our Family Farms campaign, the RSPCA criticised the Government’s failure to guarantee that the UK’s tough welfare … Read more
A businessman awarded a peerage by Harold Wilson had a decade-long relationship with Communist-era spies who considered him so useful that they referred to him as ‘intelligence agency staff’. According to more than 1,000 documents unearthed at archives in Prague, Rudy Sternberg was meeting agents from Czechoslovakia’s Statni Bezpecnost (StB) secret police in the 1960s … Read more
Cancer warning over US pork imports that will flood Britain under a trade deal – as experts say taking the antibiotic used to treat pigs off the market will ‘reduce the lifetime risk’ to consumers More than 60m pigs in the US are treated every year with the carbadox antibiotic FDA warned eating pork treated … Read more
Dominic Cummings wields axe over Cabinet ‘leakers’ Liz Truss, Ben Wallace and Robert Buckland – who are at the top of Boris Johnson’s hitlist in his next reshuffle Friends of Ms Truss are feeling very pessimistic about her career prospects It followed the leaking of a letter she wrote to Rishi Sunak and Michael Gove … Read more
So much for your great deportation crackdown, Priti Patel! Home Secretary’s promise thrown into doubt by new failures to secure the removal of offenders Priti Patel promised to crack down of foreign criminals dodging deportation The Mail on Sunday can reveal cases that demonstrate the urgent need for the new fast-track deportation legislation promised the … Read more
Michael Gove’s £700million plan to beef up border security at the end of the year ‘with or without’ a Brexit deal Michael Gove authorised £470m for infrastructure such as border control posts It comes after Government said ‘significant differences’ remain in Brexit talks It also follows a row on a leaked letter from Liz Truss … Read more
Revealed: Top civil servant in charge of Britain’s coronavirus response quits amid growing acrimony between Downing Street and the Whitehall machine Respected mandarin Tom Shinner is the latest high-profile figure to leave No 10 insiders insisted that Mr Shinner’s job was only a temporary secondment One friend said he was contractually obliged to return to … Read more
Elite commandos are offered a £20,000 bonus in a desperate effort to stop the brain drain of the brightest Royal Marines Payments will be available to those who have served for four-and-a-half years Troops who accept will receive annual payments of £5,000 for four years Corporals can already earn up to £40,000, depending on their length … Read more
The failure to award World Cup winner Jack Charlton a knighthood before his death was last night branded an ‘absolute disgrace’. Pressure is now building for the much-loved former Leeds United defender and Republic of Ireland manager to be honoured posthumously. His death on Friday, aged 85, following a year-long fight with cancer, means another hero … Read more
Consumer spending jumps 22 per cent as lockdown is lifted providing much-needed boost for the economy The economy has been lifted by several lockdown restrictions, new data says Spending in UK high street shops has risen by 11 per cent compared to last week The amount of money collected by hit the £210million mark on … Read more