Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email The government has banned councils from enforcing 15mph speed limits on their roads, disappointing road safety campaigners. Last year the City of London Corporation announced that it would be the […] More
Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email Labour has asked the government to explain what it considers to be “unusual” Foreign Office (FCDO) spending during Liz Truss’s time as head of the department. Shadow attorney general Emily […] More
Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email New home secretary Suella Braverman has told police leaders she “expects” them to cut crimes including murder by 20 per cent, without detailing how. A letter sent to chief constables […] More
Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner has vowed to end the “Tory procurement racket” with a plan to claw back public money and crack down on wasteful spending. In her speech […] More
The cap limiting bankers’ bonuses to 200 per cent of annual salary has been scrapped by chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng in his mini-budget.The EU-wide cap was imposed in 2014 to discourage the type of profit-chasing that some critics said triggered the financial crash of 2008. It limited annual bonuses to 100 per cent of salary – or 200 per cent if shareholders approved – in order to give less of an incentive for risk-taking. More
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Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Environmentalists and the renewable industry chiefs have tentatively welcomed the Liz Truss government’s plan to end a de facto ban on onshore windfarms in England. Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-Budget “growth plan” said the government would […] More
Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email Liz Truss and her chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng were accused of producing a “Robin Hood in reverse” economic plan helping the “already wealthy” after announcing a raft of tax cuts which benefit […] More
