Getty Images The chancellor has said a crackdown on government “waste” will ensure key public services can be prioritised for funding. Rachel Reeves said departments would be asked to identify 5% “efficiency savings”
Baroness Hodge, former chair of one of Westminster’s most influential select committees, is being lined up to lead a review of Arts Council England’s use of public money amid a growing backlash in
A police unit launched to crack down on the surge in shoplifting has arrested 93 members of 28 organised crime gangs behind more than £4m worth of thefts. The national team has also
Ashtead Equipment hire giant Ashtead plans to move its primary stock market listing to the US in a fresh blow to the London Stock Exchange. It said the US was a “natural long
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One of Britain’s leading financial mutuals is in talks to buy Dalmore Capital, the infrastructure investor which owns a stake in the Thames ‘super sewer’. Sky News has learnt that Royal London is
Over the last two years, the Republican-dominated House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic conducted 38 interviews and depositions, held 25 hearings and meetings, and examined more than 1 million pages of documents.
MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. — If all the service workers born in Mexico stayed home from their jobs for just one day in this thriving resort town perched high in California’s Sierra Nevada, the
These plastic toys were manufactured in Michigan by American Plastic Toys. But most toys sold in the U.S. are imported and could be subject to tariffs in the incoming Trump administration. Johannes Eisele/AFP
Shell and the environmental campaign group Greenpeace have settled a multimillion-pound lawsuit brought over an at-sea protest. The oil firm brought the case, described by Greenpeace as an act of “intimidation”, in London