The billionaire heirs to the Gucci fashion and Graff diamond fortunes are among the fabulously wealthy business owners whose companies have used the taxpayer-funded furlough scheme to pay their staff, a Mail on Sunday investigation can reveal. Our probe has uncovered how despite personal fortunes of hundreds of millions of pounds, some of Britain’s richest landowners … Read more
The billionaire heirs to the Gucci fashion and Graff diamond fortunes are among the fabulously wealthy business owners whose companies have used the taxpayer-funded furlough scheme to pay their staff, a Mail on Sunday investigation can reveal. Our probe has uncovered how despite personal fortunes of hundreds of millions of pounds, some of Britain’s richest landowners … Read more
Taxpayer will foot the bill for Post Office IT fiasco as payouts over the scandal are predicted to run into ‘hundreds of millions’ of pounds Between 1999 and 2015, hundreds of innocent postmasters were prosecuted Accused of taking money that was due to Horizon computer terminal glitches In December a number of postmasters finally had … Read more
Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner charged the taxpayer £249 for pair of PERSONALISED AirPods among £2,100 Apple gadgets she claimed on expenses to help her WFH in pandemic Angela Rayner claimed a pair of £249 personalised Apple AirPods on expenses Also claimed £1,619 iPad, £99 case, £199 keyboard, £131 pencil, £70 office chair MPs claimed … Read more
Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner charged the taxpayer £249 for pair of PERSONALISED AirPods among £2,100 Apple gadgets she claimed on expenses to help her WFH in pandemic Angela Rayner claimed a pair of £249 personalised Apple AirPods on expenses Also claimed £1,619 iPad, £99 case, £199 keyboard, £131 pencil, £70 office chair MPs claimed … Read more
Cineworld bosses could get up to £208 MILLION in bonuses after shareholders approved ‘excessive’ payout scheme – despite firm receiving taxpayer support during lockdown Chief executive alone could receive up to £65million of the bonus money Cinema company received taxpayer support through furlough during pandemic Bosses secured an extra £560million in November from independent lenders … Read more
Axe falls on taxpayer subsidies to farmers: George Eustice is to confirm that payments will be stopped in post-Brexit shake-up of agriculture Environment Secretary George Eustice will give details on the cuts today The subsidies will be cut from next year and gone altogether by 2028 The National Farmers’ Union warned last night that it … Read more
Billions being lost in Covid business loans fraud: Taxpayer faces £40bn bill as cost of emergency schemes soar By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:55 GMT, 25 November 2020 | Updated: 21:55 GMT, 25 November 2020 The taxpayer could be saddled with a £40billion bill as thousands of loans handed out under emergency … Read more
HS2 project could cost the taxpayer £170BILLION, claims deputy chairman of official review The Oakervee Review warning the final bill of HS2 could reach £106billion The report’s co-author, Lord Berkeley, now thinks costs could spiral further Cited evidence from expert suggesting costs of first phase could hit £88billion By Tom Payne Transport Correspondent For The … Read more
Alastair Flanagan’s journey to work takes him from a rambling farmhouse near the Chiltern Hills to a state-of-the-art office block overlooking a garden square in London’s Marylebone. The striking building is UK headquarters of the Boston Consulting Group, one of the world’s most prestigious — not to mention expensive — management consultancy firms. Flanagan is … Read more