Faisal Islam
How scrapping national pay rates might save lives
Faisal Islam on how scrapping national pay bargaining might save lives, and why it will be rather difficult.
Search results for ‘Budget’
2,526 items found
-
British roads sell-off feared
Drivers could face new tolls to use major roads under plans to hand control of parts of Britain’s network to private companies, David Cameron will announce today.
-
Minimum wage freeze for 16 to 20-year-olds
Vince Cable announces a freeze of the minimum wage for 16 to 20-year-olds, and a rise in the adult rate from October. Channel 4 News hears the move could “exacerbate generational inequalities”.
-
Channel 4 wins racing rights from BBC
Channel 4 wins the rights to show the Grand National, Royal Ascot and the Epsom Derby meaning it will be the exclusive broadcaster of British racing on terrestrial television.
-
-
Sunday trading laws to be ditched during Olympics
George Osborne is to lift restrictions on the amount of hours large stores can open for on Sundays during the Olympics, hoping the economy can cash in on late night shopping by tourists.
-
Civil servants in poorer regions ‘to be paid less’
George Osborne will announce plans to scrap national salaries for public sector workers and pay them according to their region instead – effectively meaning a pay cut of potentially for many of them.
-
Osborne set to scrap 50p tax rate
Chancellor George Osborne is rumoured to be preparing to cut the 50p top rate of tax in next week’s budget.
-
Faisal Islam
Bad news for Osborne as Britain is put on negative outlook
A second ratings agency has effectively lowered their assessment of Britain’s creditworthiness, just days before an important Budget.
-
FactCheck: Are police numbers at emergency levels?
“Our best guess now, as also pointed out by the independent House of Commons library in their recently updated report on police service strength, is that frontline officer numbers will fall by around 2,500 posts from 2010 to 2012.”
-
FactCheck Q&A: The truth about boozed-up Britain
With George Osborne rumoured to be unveiling plans for an “alcohol unit price control” in the 2012 Budget, FactCheck calls time on the row in the cabinet over boozed-up Britain. How bad are we as a nation? Will imposing a minimun price on booze make a difference to binge drinking?
-
Children in care ‘leave too early’
New research reveals nearly half of people who live in care as children say they are made to leave too early and do so without being prepared.
-
Nick Clegg’s ‘tycoon tax’ plans
Nick Clegg says he wants to introduce a “tycoon tax” to go after top earners who employ an “army of lawyers and accountants” to avoid paying tax.
-
Scottish football fans contemplate a future without Rangers
As financial experts try to revive the ailing Rangers Football Club, some football fans argue that the demise of half of the ‘Old Firm’ could actually make the Scottish game healthier.
-
FactCheck: Can Boris Johnson deliver on his election promises?
“The actual cash saving this year is nothing like £445. It’s £3.10, barely enough to buy you a pint of beer in a central London pub.”
-
More than 1,700 jobs could go at Remploy
The company is proposing to close 36 of its 54 factories with potential compulsory redundancies of almost three quarters of its workforce of 2,300 disabled workers.
