Tracey Crouch has brushed off suggestions that an independent regulator would damage elite football in England, as she presented her findings of a review into football governance in the UK. Following the botched attempt to create a European Super League, the government launched an independent fan led review of football governance, chaired by Tracey Crouch.…
The Met Office meteorologists have said that weather maps are showing small breaks in the “line convection” warning that this could be signs of a tornado being formed. Storm Barra… The post Met Office issues tornado warning as Storm Barra set to unleash chaos with hazardous snow and ice appeared first on London Business News…
Nadhim Zahawi said it was “impossible to imagine how any adult could commit such evil acts against a child”, as he provided a statement to the House of Commons on the death of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes. Arthur was killed in June 2020 by his stepmother Emma Tustin, after being submitted to a campaign of torture and…
It has become something of a joke that planning permission in the UK takes forever to attain. The government is trying to address this, as well as issues around affordable homes, with a drastic overhaul to planning rules. “The current planning system in the UK is highly discretionary,” explained Anthony Breach, a senior analyst for…
People in Hong Kong are leaving the country on the UK’s British National Overseas (BNO) passport scheme, due to a crackdown on democracy. The one country, two systems principle put in place when Hong Kong was returned to China by the UK, has been severely eroded in recent years. In 2019, widespread protests broke out…
The UK has some of the strictest gun laws in the world, with those laws recently being tightened further following the shooting in Plymouth during the summer when five people were killed. This contrasts strongly with the United States where the second amendment grants people the right to bear arms, and where 80% of people…
Whilst many people sigh when Christmas decorations go up in November, Leader of the House Jacob Rees-Mogg appeared to suggest that Christmas goes on until February 2nd today in the Commons. Responding to Thangam Debbonaire’s question on whether the online harms bill would be brought to parliament before Christmas, Rees-Mogg went on a colourful tangent…
Labour’s Liz Kendall criticised the adult social care white paper announcement today, saying: “Is that it?” In a statement to the House, Gillian Keegan, the minister of state for health and social care, said: “Today’s white paper is an important step on our journey to giving more people the dignified care that we want…
Olympic champion Adam Peaty today said more should be done to help lower-income families gain access to funding for high-performance sport. Many Olympic athletes in the UK rely on money from APA (athlete performance awards) funding, which is supported both by the National Lottery and the exchequer. In a digital, culture, media and sport committee…
A quarter of a million children will go hungry this Christmas. That is just one of the headlines from the Childhood Trust’s ‘Cold, Hungry and Stressed’ report, outlining the shocking levels of poverty families across London have been plunged into ahead of the festive season. Laurence Guinness, chief executive of The Childhood Trust, outlined some…
