Tougher work-experience scheme may prove to be no joke
Employment Minister Chris Grayling is planning a tougher work-experience system for young people… but will unemployed graduates feel the benefit?
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Chris Grayling has announced plans to close six public jails in the biggest prison closure programme in decades. So where does that leave overcrowding? We answer a few key questions.
As Chris Grayling gives parliament the option of rejecting a European court of human rights ruling for prisoners to vote, Channel 4 News asks which is sovereign, parliament or Europe?
Employment Minister Chris Grayling is planning a tougher work-experience system for young people… but will unemployed graduates feel the benefit?
Firms which send customer service work overseas are ‘mad’, Employment Minister Chris Grayling will say.
Some couples will be hundreds of pounds better off if they quit their jobs and stay on benefits, Chris Grayling admits.
Youth unemployment is now at a record high, and the total number of jobless across the country has risen to 2.62m. Still, the employment minister Chris Grayling appeared to have found reasons for optimism today. He remarked that there were 90,000 vacancies at job centres every week. Sounds good? Time for the FactCheck team to investigate just what’s on offer.
Employment Minister Chris Grayling tells Channel 4 News he is “keeping his fingers crossed” as he launches a revolutionary new scheme to get people off benefits.
The fact that Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling, caught off guard by the BBC, misunderstood whose government Dannatt might be joining and dismissed the move as a “gimmick” is the icing on the cake.
There is an ancient principle in English common law that criminals are sentenced in line with the laws or guidelines in force at the time they did the crime.
Documents seen by Channel 4 News reveal that the Treasury and Department for Transport have been asked for advice on possible costs and risks.
Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has just returned from Yemen, meeting both sides in the conflict – the first western foreign minister to visit the country since the war began.
The Prime Minister has once again backed the Transport Secretary Chris Grayling as he faced further criticism in parliament over the awarding of a contract to provide ferries in the event of a no-deal Brexit to a company with no ships. Theresa May insisted that due diligence was carried out before start-up company Seaborne Freight…
In London , left and right wing protestors inspired by the Paris yellow vests have been out on the streets – rallying support on both sides of the Brexit debate.
Seaborne Freight has been contracted to supply ferries between Ramsgate and Ostend in the event of a no-deal Brexit. But Channel 4 News has been told that its chief executive, Ben Sharp, once ran a shipping company that ceased trading – owing more than a million pounds to multiple businesses.
Some Cabinet ministers say this morning’s gathering was a more low-key affair than last week’s. One around the table said “it was like the steam had gone out of it.” Chris Grayling spoke up, challenging the idea that Theresa May’s deal could ever get through the Commons. But others, one source said, were rather low-key. The Chief…