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UK Health Department played ‘fast and loose’ when awarding COVID contracts to Randox
Jul 28, 2022 05:10At the start of the COVID pandemic in March 2020, the UK Health Department gave the first contract, worth £133m, to healthcare firm Randox without allowing any other firms to bid. The government had suspended normal rules for awarding contracts as the pandemic was deemed to be an emergency.
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Nationwide rail strikes shut down much of UK network
Jul 28, 2022 02:42Organized by the Rail Maritime and Transport Workers union, the 24 hour industrial action has seen more than 40 thousand railway workers walk out in a row over job security and pay at a time of soaring inflation.
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Interest rates: The three central banks facing one tricky balancing act
Jul 27, 2022 04:50In the fight against inflation the European Central Bank (ECB), Bank of England and US Federal Reserve risk either doing too much too soon, or too little too late.
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UK retail chain under fire for using facial recognition cameras
Jul 26, 2022 14:18A privacy rights group has filed a legal complaint against the use of facial recognition cameras at a UK chain store, describing the practice as dangerously intrusive.
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Travel chaos is ‘the new normal’ after Brexit, British tourists are warned
Jul 26, 2022 04:04The UK Labour Chair, Anneliese Dodds, said: “While the Conservatives fight among themselves, British families are stuck waiting hours on end to begin their family holiday as the chaos in Dover Port continues, and once again the government has failed to get a grip.”
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Britain’s final two candidates for PM vow to get tough on illegal migration, back Rwanda policy
Jul 25, 2022 01:58The final two candidates to replace Boris Johnson as Britain’s prime minister have promised to tackle illegal immigration as a priority of their government.
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Why do the minority in England who haven’t had COVID account for most new infections?
Jul 24, 2022 04:21About 15% of people in England have never had COVID. But in the current wave, driven by the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants of Omicron, this minority group still accounts for 55% of infections. How can so few be contributing so much?
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‘The way it’s playing out is unexpected’: UK faces up to changing waves of Covid
Jul 23, 2022 04:03As infections soar in the third major coronavirus wave this year, British experts say Covid may never settle into a seasonal cycle.
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EU takes new legal action against UK over failure to uphold post-Brexit trade agreements
Jul 23, 2022 02:18The European Commission has brought forward four new legal actions against the UK government in a dispute over post-Brexit trade agreements across the Irish border.
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Commons leader calls for release of Bahraini opposition figures in first by UK government
Jul 22, 2022 02:22The leader of the UK House of Commons has supported calls for the release of imprisoned Bahraini opposition figures, including academic and human rights activist Abduljalil al-Singace who has been on hunger strike for more than a year.