Fashion retailer New Look is preparing to accelerate store closures as a result of Labour’s tax-raising budget, while “Chicken King” Ranjit Boparan battles to pass higher costs on to supermarkets—signalling further pressure on UK businesses across multiple sectors. Around a quarter of New Look’s 364 British outlets are understood to be at risk of closure when leases expire, potentially placing ...
Jeff Bezos is gearing up to launch Amazon’s satellite broadband service in Britain, marking a significant challenge to fellow billionaire Elon Musk. Regulatory filings show Amazon’s Project Kuiper plans to beam internet connectivity from space to UK customers—including businesses and government users—as early as this year, signalling intensifying competition in the nascent but increasingly crowded satellite internet market. Project Kuiper’s ...
Sterling has tumbled to its weakest level since April following stark warnings from an influential survey that Britain may be on the brink of an industrial recession. The pound dropped by 1pc against the dollar on Thursday, slipping below $1.24, amid growing concerns that the UK economy is faltering. In stark contrast, optimism is rising in the United States, where ...
Since winning the election last week, President-elect Donald Trump has begun evaluating and rolling out his picks for his Cabinet and other top roles. Here’s a roundup of whom Trump has picked to fill top jobs in his administration: Publicly announced White House Chief of Staff – Susie WilesU.S. Ambassador to the United Nations – Elise StefanikNational Security Adviser – ...
President-elect Trump announced his latest staff picks on Saturday night, naming four additional people to serve in the White House in administrative and advisory capacities. Trump, who takes office in less than three weeks, began by naming Stanley E. Woodward, Jr., to serve as an assistant to the president and a senior counselor. Woodward co-founded a law firm called Brand ...
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told Republican lawmakers on Saturday that President-elect Trump supports a conservative policy overhaul via a single large bill, three sources told Fox News Digital. Trump wants both the House and Senate to have such a bill on his desk by May, the sources said. The president-elect’s buy-in will likely end the growing intraparty friction on how ...
The heinous act of terror in New Orleans early on New Year’s Day underscores the Biden administration’s staggering failure to keep America safe and deter radical Islamic terror. By allowing focus on this persistent threat to America’s national security to lapse, and instead wasting time and resources attacking political opponents, parents going to school board meetings and Catholics, Team Biden ...
Three quarters of former Conservative MPs who lost their seats at the last election are poised to attempt a comeback, new research suggests. According to a survey by the Conservatives Together group — a network headed by Grant Shapps, the former defence secretary — only 10 of 88 ex-Tory MPs polled ruled out standing again. A further 38 said they ...
Marco Longhi, the former Conservative MP for Dudley North, has joined Nigel Farage’s Reform UK after accusing his old party of having been “captured by a left-wing influence masquerading as conservatism”. He is the third ex-Tory MP to defect to Reform UK since last year’s general election, following Aidan Burley and Dame Andrea Jenkyns. Longhi, who lost his seat in ...
Apple has pledged to pay $95 million (£77 million) to settle a US class-action lawsuit alleging that Siri, its virtual assistant, recorded private conversations without users’ consent. The proposed settlement, filed in a federal court in Oakland, California, comes after a five-year legal dispute and covers tens of millions of Apple device owners. Although Apple denies any wrongdoing, it has ...