UK – Industry Updates
- Greensill hearing live: Lex Greensill prepares to face MPs over David Cameron’s lobbying for failed lenderon May 11, 2021 at 2:03 pm
The Treasury select committee is set to grill the Australian financier on the collapse of his company Greensill Capital and the role the former prime minister played
- Queen’s Speech sets out Boris Johnson’s post-Covid agendaon May 11, 2021 at 10:46 am
Prime minister aims to drive post-pandemic recovery and narrow regional inequalities
- Queen’s Speech to pave way for Johnson re-election bidon May 11, 2021 at 7:41 am
Planned legislation includes proposal to require voters to provide proof of identity
- China’s population grows at slowest rate in decadeson May 11, 2021 at 4:40 am
Census for 10 years to 2020 shows weakest rise since modern records began
- Growth in private school fees slows during pandemicon May 11, 2021 at 4:00 am
Independent sector expects a surge in pupil numbers as parents worry about loss of education
- Colonial pipeline hackers, UK services sector’s struggleson May 11, 2021 at 4:00 am
Pipeline hackers say they did not mean to create problems for society
- BoE’s upgraded forecasts disguise gloomy assessment for economyon May 11, 2021 at 3:00 am
FT analysis finds that revision based entirely on better-than-expected past performance
- UK consumer spending rises above pre-pandemic levels for first time in 2021on May 10, 2021 at 11:03 pm
April uptick driven by many sectors reopening and older people booking holidays
- UK employers lose £2bn in unspent apprenticeship levy fundson May 10, 2021 at 11:02 pm
Business group says figure exposes weaknesses in government’s flagship training policy
- Johnson gives go-ahead to further lockdown easing in Englandon May 10, 2021 at 6:14 pm
Hint that social-distancing restrictions could be lifted completely in the summer