Councils will be stopped from treating motorists as cash cows through over-zealous enforcement of minor offences. Revealing a package of measures ahead of his keynote speech to the Tory party conference on Monday, Transport Secretary Mark Harper said he would halt the anti-car campaign of a metropolitan elite. The Cabinet minister also vowed he will not give in to militant […]

Denver’s relocation of residents of a Capitol Hill homeless encampment ahead of a cleanup this week resulted in 83 people moving into rooms at an undisclosed hotel, Mayor Mike Johnston said Thursday. He saw Monday’s relocation effort, which he dubbed as the city’s first successful encampment “closure,” as a demonstration that his administration was on the right path, he said […]

The Chancellor has vowed to stop the “vicious circle of ever-rising taxes” by shaking up public services and the benefit system. Jeremy Hunt’s remarks come as the Conservatives prepare for their party conference. More than 30 Tory MPs, including former PM Liz Truss and former Home Secretary Dame Priti Patel, have said they won’t approve any plans that see taxes […]

Scotland’s First Minister has said he remains “hopeful” of an SNP win in a key by-election next week. Humza Yousaf said voters in Rutherglen and Hamilton West face a “stark choice” between Sir Keir Starmer’s “man in Scotland” or the SNP candidate, who he said would only take her orders from her constituents. The by-election will take place on Thursday […]

John Connolly wants to scrap the entire system and start over. The president of the Towing & Recovery Professionals of Colorado, a trade group representing the state’s towing operators, remembers how his industry used to operate. Back in the 1970s and ’80s, property owners paid towers to remove abandoned vehicles from their lots — without charging consumers. But in recent […]

The Government is in the “final stages” of engagement with the DUP over its concerns as further changes of the Windsor Framework come into effect on Sunday, including the green/red lane system for the movement of goods, the Northern Ireland Secretary has said. Chris Heaton-Harris added there is “still more work to do” and called for the restoration of Northern […]

A group of 34 Conservative women MPs have written a strong letter to Sir Ed Davey and the use of his “misogynistic” language at the Liberal Democrats’ annual party conference in Bournemouth. In a social media post, on X, formerly known as Twitter, Conservative MP of London and Westminster, Nickie Aiken, wrote: “Incensed by @EdwardJDavey use of the c word […]

The Government is finalising its framework engagement with the DUP, with ministers stating an agreement has entered its “final stages”, as new post-Brexit rules come into effect this weekend. From today, September 30, the Windsor Framework’s green and red lanes activate, the former being accessible to trusted traders via the UK Internal Market Scheme (UKIMS). The UKIMS will allow these […]

It was perhaps inevitable the huge disruption of Covid-19 would take time to be fully understood and reflected in economic data. The revision to the official tally for growth shows that businesses fared better in 2021, the year following lockdowns, than we thought. The change means we are no longer trailing the other major European economies, notably France and Germany. […]

Jeremy Hunt clashes with Trevor Phillips Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has championed new figures predicting that growth will be three times higher than originally expected. The ONS has just released new forecasts predicting that growth in Quarter 1 of 2023 will now be 0.3 percent, up from its original prediction of 0.1 percent. While the expert body still predicts a small […]