Image copyright PA Image caption Mr Corbyn will say that young people’s work “should be properly valued” Labour will extend its plans for a higher £10 an hour minimum wage to include workers under the age of 18, party leader Jeremy Corbyn is to say. Currently, under-18s are entitled to a minimum wage of £4.35 […]
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Simon Coveney was speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme The Irish and British governments will do some “heavy lifting” to ensure talks to restore Stormont power-sharing make progress in “weeks, not months”, the Irish deputy prime minister has said. Fresh talks aimed at breaking more than two years of […]
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Simon Coveney was speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme The Irish and British governments will do some “heavy lifting” to ensure talks to restore Stormont power-sharing make progress in “weeks, not months”, the Irish deputy prime minister has said. Fresh talks aimed at breaking more than two years of […]
Image copyright Reuters Sajid Javid has said he gets abuse “because of my colour” from the “far left” and “far right” of UK politics. The home secretary told the BBC’s Political Thinking podcast he was criticised either for being “too brown” or “not brown enough”. He said he had “sadly got used to” it but […]
Media captionGuy Verhofstadt: I don’t know if UK will leave EU Guy Verhofstadt has said he does not “know” if Brexit will go ahead. Questioned on this during a visit to London, the leader of the liberal group in the European Parliament told reporters: “Ask Theresa May.” Meanwhile, European Council President Donald Tusk said there […]
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Donald Trump visited the UK in July 2018 Theresa May should “call out” Donald Trump on issues where she thinks he is “wrong” during his visit to the UK, London Mayor Sadiq Khan has said. In an interview with LBC, the Labour politician said the US and UK were “closest […]
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Simon Coveney was speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme The Irish and British governments will do some “heavy lifting” to ensure talks to restore Stormont power-sharing make progress in “weeks, not months”, the Irish deputy prime minister has said. Fresh talks aimed at breaking more than two years of […]
Media captionHammond: Economy is robust The UK economy picked up in the first three months of the year after manufacturers’ stockpiling ahead of Brexit helped to boost growth. Growth was 0.5% in the quarter, up from 0.2% in the previous three months, the Office for National Statistics said. The manufacturing sector grew at its fastest […]
Labour’s Richard Burgon says he “certainly didn’t lie” when he denied having said Zionism was “the enemy of peace”. The shadow justice secretary was asked about why, in 2018, he denied making the remarks, which later emerged in video footage from 2014. He told BBC Newsnight: “I forgot a phrase that it turns out I […]
Image copyright SPL/EPA/LAS A replacement for how Britain’s emergency services communicate is set to go over budget by at least £3.1bn, a spending watchdog has warned. The Home Office has already delayed switching off the existing system by three years to 2022. But the National Audit Office (NAO) has raised doubts about whether the project […]
