Business

Boris Johnson has returned from his trip to Washington to make contact with the new administration fired up by their apparent enthusiasm for a trade deal with the UK.

If you’ve just returned from a busy day at the office, you may well have contributed to a small rise in productivity in Britain.

Sir Vince Cable says he will “certainly not” shop at JD Sports following allegations about working conditions at Britain’s biggest sports retailer.

We spoke to the former footballer Pat Nevin who won 28 caps for Scotland across a ten year international career and now works as a football writer and broadcaster.

One strike for wearing branded clothes, two strikes for using a mobile phone. Channel 4 News has seen an internal document from JD Sports detailing these guidelines that its warehouse workers can face if they break company rules.

It’s shaping up to be a winter of discontent for the UK, with a flurry of strikes promising disruption from Post Office counters to trains and air travel. Now it seems even your morning bowl of cereal could be at risk, as Weetabix workers vote to take action too.

If you’re hoping to join the great Christmas getaway next weekend then beware: check-in staff, baggage handlers and cargo crew at 18 airports across the country have voted for a 48 hour strike from December 23rd. Pilots at Virgin Atlantic and British Airways cabin staff are also planning industrial action over the festive period.

Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox has agreed a takeover deal with Sky worth more than £11.5bn. It means Fox will buy the 61% stake in the broadcaster.

The Department of Work and Pensions says it has stopped JD Sports from using job centres to recruit workers – after an undercover investigation by this programme revealed shocking conditions at its warehouse in Rochdale. Today the company said it was launching its own investigation into working conditions.

Interview with TUC general Secretary Frances O’Grady

Council tax bills could go up by 6 per cent over the next two years in an effort to tackle the crisis in social care. For someone in an average band D property, that means a £90 increase.

Labour MP Iain Wright, the chair the business select committee, and Conservative MP Chris Philp, who is a member of the Treasury select committee.

It’s the biggest sports retailer in the UK with soaring profits to match. But an undercover report by this progamme reveals the shocking truth behind the success of JD Sports.

Exposed: the shocking treatment some low paid workers face at JD Sports’ huge warehouse.

If it’s a struggle to get Christmas presents delivered on time, it’s a struggle to buy them too – as new figures show inflation’s soared to its highest in two years.