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Rishi Sunak will today try to prevent a major uprising among right-wing Tory MPs who oppose his plan for Rwanda, as he struggles to reconcile the competing demands of Tory factions.
Would-be rebels have warned the Prime Minister that “major surgery” is still needed to fix the landmark asylum law, with up to 40 MPs abstaining or voting against the proposed law in the first vote in the House of Commons.
Around 20 members of the New Conservatives are to attend a breakfast with Sunak in Number 10 later this morning, as ministers engage in a last-ditch attempt to win over party colleagues.
Two top executives at Royal Mail who were close to the company’s recent long-running dispute with its unions are going to leave in the new year.
In an email to employees, the head of parent company International Distributions Services (IDS) said the delivery company would combine tactics with its lead chief operating officer and human resources director.
Chief human resources officer Zareena Brown has a new vacant assignment starting in March, IDS chief executive Martin Seidenberg said, while chief operating officer Grant McPherson will be replaced in January.
WH Smith’s boss has seen his pay surge by 78% over the past year after the retailer continued its travel-boosted resurgence.
Carl Cowling, a lead executive since 2019, earned an overall pay settlement of £2. 91 million for the year ending August 31, according to the company’s most recent annual report. He had secured a £1. 63m wage deal a year earlier.
WH Smith reported a pre-tax profit of £143 million for the year ended August 31, up from £73 million a year earlier. Group cash for the year increased 28% to £1. 79 billion.
Virgin Media O2 is reaching out to its five million broadband, landline and TV consumers to make sure low-income families are aware of the bill they will be on this Christmas.
The telecoms giant has announced that it will include data on its social tariff offerings in its monthly December bills.
Social tariffs are discounted packages for services aimed at low-income households, including those receiving a range of benefits, with the aim of making those services more accessible to people no matter their financial situation.
Plans to move more than 20,000 public service jobs out of London will be brought forward to 2027, the government announced.
The target of moving 22,000 civil service jobs out of the capital by 2030 has been accelerated, with plans to also open multi-departmental headquarters in Aberdeen, Darlington and Greater Manchester.
More than three hundred jobs will also be created in Wrexham, which ministers say is a testament to the government’s preference for taking it to the next level.
A nature charity has saved an ancient and remote forest containing Scotland’s oldest Scots pine.
Trees for Life has stepped in to save dozens of pines in Glen Leyne in the North West Highlands after it emerged they were threatened by overgrazing due to the large numbers of deer.
The charity erected a deer-proof fence around the wooded perimeter to prevent damage to the trees and allow the seedlings to grow without being consumed. The organization’s oldest pine tree, about 57 years old, has been dated to be 565 years old.
More than a portion of the population believes the government has done a poor job in handling the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new poll.
Only 26% of 1,095 UK adults told the Ipsos UK polling institute that they thought the government had dealt well with the pandemic, while 51% said it had done a poor job.
The poll, conducted in mid-November and published today, came as the Covid inquiry continued to hear evidence on decision-making at the heart of government.
The Little Car Company has created an immersive demonstration of the Ferrari Testa Rossa J in a 75% edition at Harrods.
Built in collaboration with Ferrari Classiche, only 299 examples of this vintage electrified model will be built, which will evolve and be hand-crafted from the original drawings made by the Maranello team.
It features the quintessential Ferrari Rosso Corsa red exterior and is complemented by sublime Tradizione Beige leather and a tone-on-tone stitched interior. No value has been given.
The FTSE 100 closed 9.58 points down yesterday to end the day on 7,544.89. The Cac 40 was up 24.98 points at 7,551.53, the Dax was up 35.21 points at 16,794.43, and the Dow Jones was up 157.06 points at 36,404.93.
Today will be largely cloudy and unsettled with spells of rain and blustery showers pushing eastwards, some thundery in the south-west, says BBC Weather. It’ll be drier with brighter skies in north-western Scotland, and generally breezy.
On Wednesday, the southeast will remain normally cloudy with more showers. The weather will be drier and brighter elsewhere, although there will be clouds in Northern Ireland and western Scotland, with some overnight rain there.
John has been with Car Dealer since 2013 after spending 25 years at the newspaper as a journalist and then Deputy Deputy Editor/Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Regional and National Titles. John is an Assistant Editor of Car Dealer’s Editorial Department and social media manager.
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