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Rishi Sunak Faces A Tightrope Walk Of Pleasing Wary Tories And Reversing Austerity With His Budget
Rishi Sunak Faces A Tightrope Walk Of Pleasing Wary Tories And Reversing Austerity With His Budget
Economy
Rishi Sunak is facing a tough balancing act with this week’s Budget, where he will be hoping to please the public with spending, while keeping his fiscally prudent fans in the Conservative party on side.
Treasury And BEIS Wrangling Leaves Industry Waiting For Emergency Gas Price Support
Economy
Treasury And BEIS Wrangling Leaves Industry Waiting For Emergency Gas Price Support
Investment in Management Skills Crucial to 'Levelling Up', Say Business Leaders Partner content
Economy
By Chartered Management Institute
Investment in Management Skills Crucial to 'Levelling Up', Say Business Leaders
Kwasi Kwarteng Rules Out Future Lockdowns Despite Covid Case Surge
Coronavirus
Kwasi Kwarteng Rules Out Future Lockdowns Despite Covid Case Surge
Backlogs At UK Ports Could Last Well Into Next Year And Ruin Choice In Shops
Coronavirus
Backlogs At UK Ports Could Last Well Into Next Year And Ruin Choice In Shops
Grant Shapps Says 'Very, Very Few' Foreign Lorry Drivers Have Taken Up UK Visas
Coronavirus
Grant Shapps Says "Very, Very Few" Foreign Lorry Drivers Have Taken Up UK Visas
Packaging Industry Says It Is Too Late To Stop Shortages Of Cans And Cardboard
Coronavirus
Packaging Industry Says It Is Too Late To Stop Shortages Of Cans And Cardboard
The House Live
Bridget Phillipson: 'We need a plan from the government. There is no plan.'
Economy
By Laurence Sleator
Bridget Phillipson: "We need a plan from the government. There is no plan."
Ahead of COP26, the Chancellor must use the spending review to deliver on green investment
Environment
By Sam Alvis
Ahead of COP26, the Chancellor must use the spending review to deliver on green investment
As we look back on the PAC’s remarkable history, the need for transparency and accountability has never been greater
Economy
By Meg Hillier MP
As we look back on the PAC’s remarkable history, the need for transparency and accountability has never been greater
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Conservatives take aim at Human Rights Act - again
Conservatives take aim at Human Rights Act - again
By Alexandra Ming
Home affairs
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Rishi Sunak Faces A Tightrope Walk Of Pleasing Wary Tories And Reversing Austerity With His Budget
Economy
Rishi Sunak Faces A Tightrope Walk Of Pleasing Wary Tories And Reversing Austerity With His Budget
Rishi Sunak is facing a tough balancing act with this week’s Budget, where he will be hoping to please the public with spending, while keeping his fiscally prudent fans in the Conservative party on side.
Bridget Phillipson: 'We need a plan from the government. There is no plan.'
Economy
By Laurence Sleator
Bridget Phillipson: "We need a plan from the government. There is no plan."
Having grown up in poverty as the child of a single mother, Bridget Phillipson knows as well as anyone how much those on low incomes suffer through lean times. It’s why, she tells Laurence Sleator, she’s determined to defend the red wall – and see the return of a Labour government.
More Trouble For Boris Johnson’s Plans To Reshape The Economy As Car Industry Calls For Help
Brexit
More Trouble For Boris Johnson’s Plans To Reshape The Economy As Car Industry Calls For Help
Boris Johnson has made it clear he wants to use the current supply chain crisis to reshape the British economy, but businesses are warning he risks breaking it this winter as staff shortages continue to cause major issues across a host of industries.
Economy news
Partner content
Economy
By Chartered Management Institute
Join us for the next meeting of the APPG for Management
The next meeting of the APPG for management will take place tomorrow (14th September) on the topic of EDI; fair, inclusive work.
Why we need a new housing regeneration agency Partner content
Communities
By Homes for the South West
Why we need a new housing regeneration agency
A national regeneration agency could breathe new life into some of the UK's most out-of-date housing, making it fit for the 21st century.
Space is the key to delivering the Prime Minister’s top priorities Partner content
Education
By UKspace
Space is the key to delivering the Prime Minister’s top priorities
Since entering Number 10, the Prime Minister has committed to levelling up, delivering a net zero economy and investing in innovative growth industries. It is no exaggeration to say that all of these agenda areas are dependent on space.
Low tax conservatism is dead, but fiscal conservatism is back in fashion
Health
By Torsten Bell
Low tax conservatism is dead, but fiscal conservatism is back in fashion
The Prime Minister and Chancellor made huge policy decisions this week, raising taxes to spend more on the NHS and protect the assets of those facing high social care costs.
Partner content
Economy
By Chartered Institute of Building
CIOB responds to third consecutive drop in construction output
Supermarket Food Shortages Will Be Permanent, An Industry Leader Has Warned
Coronavirus
Supermarket Food Shortages Will Be Permanent, An Industry Leader Has Warned
The food shortages being reported by a growing number of household names are likely to last forever, a leading industry figure has said in a stark warning to the government.
Advertising may be annoying, yet all the evidence shows gambling advertising does not equal harm - but let’s keep driving change and raising standards Partner content
Education
By Betting And Gaming Council
Advertising may be annoying, yet all the evidence shows gambling advertising does not equal harm - but let’s keep driving change and raising standards
When I asked a team of pollsters and focus groups specialists, who’d been going round the country recently, what people thought of advertising, the reply from one veteran top political numbers man was: “They just find it annoying”. I then followed up and said: “Gambling advertising in particular?” He replied: “No. All advertising”.
Less Than A Third Of The Public Think The Tories Are A Low Tax Party
Economy
By Kate Proctor
Less Than A Third Of The Public Think The Tories Are A Low Tax Party
Just one in three members of the public think the Conservatives are currently a party of low tax, revealing the potential scale of the battle ahead to regain their fiscal reputation.
Sajid Javid Says He Cannot Guarantee Tax Hikes Will Be Enough To Clear NHS Backlog
Coronavirus
Sajid Javid Says He Cannot Guarantee Tax Hikes Will Be Enough To Clear NHS Backlog
Health Secretary Sajid Javid has said he cannot say for sure that the government plan to increase National Insurance will be enough to clear the NHS backlog.
Grow Back Better: Back us to grow green jobs and tackle climate change says UK horticulture industry Partner content
Brexit
By Horticultural Trades Association
Grow Back Better: Back us to grow green jobs and tackle climate change says UK horticulture industry
A thriving horticulture industry can usher in the green growth the country needs. It's time for government to help us deliver.
The government is meeting just six per cent of its green homes targets – but bold action has public support
Environment
By Luke Murphy, head of the IPPR Environmental Justice Commission
The government is meeting just six per cent of its green homes targets – but bold action has public support
In just over 50 days, the UK plays host to the pivotal international climate summit COP26 in Glasgow. To be a credible host, the UK must get its own house in order yet its net zero strategy – the UK government’s long-awaited plan for reducing emissions – and other crucial plans, including its heat and buildings strategy, have still not been published.
Partner content
Economy
By Glass and Glazing Federation
GGF Forms New Aluminium Group
The Glass and Glazing Federation (GGF) is pleased to announce the formation of the new GGF Aluminium Group for companies operating in the aluminium sector.
Partner content
Environment
By Coca-Cola European Partners
MSP Visits Coca-Cola Manufacturing Site in East Kilbride
Power Up: How can we support the UK's energy transition? Partner content
Coronavirus
By Legal & General
Power Up: How can we support the UK's energy transition?
If the UK is to meet its net zero ambitions, then over the next three decades we will need to drive a fundamental shift in the way that energy is generated, distributed, and used.
Disgruntled Tory MPs Are Pitching Alternatives To National Insurance Rise To Fund Social Care
Health
Disgruntled Tory MPs Are Pitching Alternatives To National Insurance Rise To Fund Social Care
Alternatives to a National Insurance hike to pay for social care are being suggested by Tory backbenchers, who appear horrified by reports government is considering a manifesto-breaking tax increase.
Betting Industry Backs ‘Plan For Jobs’ With Pledge To Create 5,000 Apprenticeships Partner content
Education
By Betting And Gaming Council
Betting Industry Backs ‘Plan For Jobs’ With Pledge To Create 5,000 Apprenticeships
Betting and gaming firms have pledged to create 5,000 apprenticeships over the next five years.
#5GCheckTheFacts: How Mobile UK is informing and educating the public about 5G Partner content
Economy
By Mobile UK
#5GCheckTheFacts: How Mobile UK is informing and educating the public about 5G
To bring the public onboard with 5G technology, it is vital that discourse is focused on the facts.
Partner content
Communities
By Betting And Gaming Council
BGC Chairman Brigid Simmonds Comments on Appointment of New Gambling Commission Chair
Partner content
Environment
By NOAH
NOAH endorses new report to support pets in rented accommodation
NOAH is delighted to welcome and endorse the new Heads for Tails! report published today by Co-Founder of AdvoCATS, Jen Berazi. The report, endorsed by more than 30 charities, landlord groups, housing associations and more, outlines key policy recommendations that the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) could take forward to make it easier for tenants to rent with pets in the UK.
Keeping the Universal Credit uplift is critical to deliver on our pledge to level up
Economy
By Iain Duncan Smith MP
Keeping the Universal Credit uplift is critical to deliver on our pledge to level up
Instead of seeing the £20 uplift as a problem to be solved, we should see it as an investment in a system that can turn people’s lives around.
Post-Brexit UK Food Industry Is £2bn Worse Off After 'Disastrous' Fall In EU Sales
Coronavirus
Post-Brexit UK Food Industry Is £2bn Worse Off After "Disastrous" Fall In EU Sales
Exclusive: New figures show a sharp fall in food and drink sales to the European Union in the first half of this year has led to the industry being £2bn down on pre-pandemic levels, with post-Brexit trade barriers believed to be the principal cause.
Partner content
Economy
By Mobile UK
5G: Have You Checked The Facts?
Partner content
Economy
By Chartered Institute of Building
Leading advocate for women in construction appointed Vice President of CIOB
The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) has appointed its latest Vice President, Sandi Rhys Jones OBE FCIOB FWES MCIM.
Partner content
Economy
By Glass and Glazing Federation
GGF Responds to UKCA Extension
The GGF has reacted to the news of the Government extension of the transition period for the end of recognition of the CE mark in Great Britain has been extended until 1st January 2023.
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Unlocking the Senior Civil Service
2021
London & Online
Unlocking the Senior Civil Service
Fostering Conscious Inclusion at Work
2021
Online
Fostering Conscious Inclusion at Work
Women into Leadership Manchester
2021
Manchester & Online
Women into Leadership Manchester
Women in Local Government
2021
Hybrid
Women in Local Government