Giving workers more public holidays and raising their wages could boost the strength of the British economy, according to a report. The New Economics Foundation said that driving up the spending power of consumers would give firms a greater incentive to raise their productivity, as they could have greater confidence there would be demand for […]
Giving workers more public holidays and raising their wages could boost the strength of the British economy, according to a report. The New Economics Foundation said that driving up the spending power of consumers would give firms a greater incentive to raise their productivity, as they could have greater confidence there would be demand for […]
Giving workers more public holidays and raising their wages could boost the strength of the British economy, according to a report. The New Economics Foundation said that driving up the spending power of consumers would give firms a greater incentive to raise their productivity, as they could have greater confidence there would be demand for […]
Giving workers more public holidays and raising their wages could boost the strength of the British economy, according to a report. The New Economics Foundation said that driving up the spending power of consumers would give firms a greater incentive to raise their productivity, as they could have greater confidence there would be demand for […]
LONDON — U.S. national security adviser John Bolton arrived in the U.K. on Sunday for two days of talks with the new British government about more closely aligning the countries’ interests on global challenges, including Brexit, a rising China and tensions with Iran. Bolton specifically plans to make the case for Britain to declare the […]
LONDON (AP) — British history has become a Brexit battleground. British voters’ decision three years ago to split from the European Union was fueled by a sense that the U.K. is fundamentally separate from its continental neighbors — a sceptered isle, rather than a European power. Brexit-backing Conservative lawmaker Jacob Rees-Mogg has compared Brexit to […]
Hundreds of people deported from the UK were restrained by a variety of methods including shackles, the Guardian has learned. There were 447 cases where one or more forms of restraint were used between April 2018 and March 2019. Information on restraint using rigid bar handcuffs, leg restraints and waist restraint belts was provided to […]
Rail passengers had a narrow escape after their train struck a tree that had fallen on to a line near Lincoln. The Lincoln to Nottingham hit the tree shortly before 9am on Sunday, Network Rail said. A spokesperson for Network Rail said “two window shields were broken” at the front of the train when the […]
Rail passengers had a narrow escape after their train struck a tree that had fallen on to a line near Lincoln. The Lincoln to Nottingham hit the tree shortly before 9am on Sunday, Network Rail said. A spokesperson for Network Rail said “two window shields were broken” at the front of the train when the […]
Rail passengers have endured a second day of disruption, this time caused by severe winds and flooding rather than power outages. After travellers recovered from delays of up to 12 hours on Friday following the National Grid failure, weather caused chaos in the national rail network, ports and roads. The most high-profile victim was the […]
