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Ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt to attend UK international investment summit

Posted by October 6, 2024

The former Google boss Eric Schmidt has been named as one of the high-profile executives attending the Labour government’s first international investment summ

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Sky News staff threaten to unionise amid backlash over pay…

Posted by October 6, 2024

Staff at Sky News are preparing to unionise in protest against pay and working conditions, dealing a blow to the broadcaster as

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UK charities fear first-class stamp price rise will mean fewer…

Posted by October 6, 2024

Royal Mail has been accused of being “shortsighted” and risking a drop in the number of charity Christmas cards sent this year as it increases stamp prices

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Labour must ensure benefits of future growth are shared equally…

Posted by October 6, 2024

Politics is hard because it invariably involves making choices between conflicting objectives. As Keir Starmer is discovering, the need to prioritise means you

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Prime Minister puts investment at the heart of first Council…

Posted by October 5, 2024

Prime Minister convenes leaders from across the UK for Council of the Nations and Regions in Scotland on Friday 11 October. Council to focus on max

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British food firms lobbied to defer £1.7bn plastic packaging tax,…

Posted by October 5, 2024

Lobbyists for Britain’s biggest food brands successfully pushed for a £1.7bn packaging tax to be deferred, new documents reveal.The fees for a new scheme to

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Ministers plot Whitehall shake-up in inward investment drive

Posted by October 5, 2024

Ministers are plotting a shake-up of Britain's drive to attract inward investment days before a summit they will claim demonstrates the country is

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Irish budget: Stark difference in UK and Ireland’s budgets

Posted by October 5, 2024

PA and ReutersIreland’s finance minister Jack Chambers and the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel ReevesAs Ireland’s finance minister delivered his budge

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Bank holds rate but says it’s ‘optimistic’ things moving in…

Posted by October 5, 2024

Are high interest rates bad news for everyone?published at 12:34 British Summer Time 9 May12:34 BST 9 MayWe've just had the news that interest rates are remaini

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UK risks losing AI leadership without data strategy, government warned

Posted by October 4, 2024

The UK needs a strategy to meet growing demand for data centres or risk losing its advantage in the race to develop artificial intelligence (AI),

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Fish and chips: NHS bosses want chippy to sell fruit…

Posted by October 4, 2024

There could be something fishy about this chip shop's menu if health bosses get their wayPlans for a new chippy have come up against a health board's demands fo

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Ex-Harrods man: I lost my job due to Al Fayed

Posted by October 4, 2024

A long-serving former Harrods executive has claimed that his offer to become boss of the department store chain Fenwick was withdrawn because of his time workin

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