Nicola Sturgeon has accused some opponents of Scotland’s gender recognition reform of using women’s rights as a “cloak of acceptability”. Scotland’s first minister was careful to stress not all opponents of her government’s Gender Recognition Reform Bill hold this view. Her government approved the bill at the end of last year – not without opposition
Month: January 2023
HS2 will end at Euston after reports the high-speed line could stop before reaching central London, the chancellor has confirmed. Jeremy Hunt said he did not see “any conceivable circumstance” the original plan would not be followed and that he was “incredibly proud” of the work going ahead. The endpoint of the line came into
Ian King speaks to the CEO of the London Technology Club about why it’s a challenging time for global investment in the sector. Plus, hear from the chief executive of Airtel Africa about how population growth is expected to affect business. And more on the bakery chain that’s promising the most lavish doughnuts London’s ever
Jeremy Hunt became chancellor because he was the most sensible candidate left standing in the wake of Liz Truss’s catastrophic mini-budget. Four months on, he’s earned praise for balancing the books but still had a blank space to fill in when it comes to growth – a crucial plank of economic policy in danger of
Sir Keir Starmer has said Sir Rod Stewart “reflected the mood across the country” when he told Sky News live on air the current government needs to go and Labour should step in. The Maggie May singer called into the Your Say segment of Sarah-Jane Mee’s show on Thursday to discuss the ongoing crisis in
The Wall Street giant Morgan Stanley is to offload Britain’s biggest independent operator of high street slot machine venues. Sky News has learnt that the bank, which owns GameNation through a fund that it manages, has hired bankers to kick off an auction of the business. GameNation, which trades from 50 sites across the UK,
Shares in listed companies controlled by one of the world’s richest men have lost $48bn (£39bn) in market value over three days after a report by a short seller that claimed he was behind the “largest con in corporate history”. Shares of Gautam Adani’s flagship Adani Enterprises sank by 20% on Friday alone after Wednesday’s
Britain’s two biggest steelmakers would be required to guarantee thousands of jobs for a decade in return for £600m of government support to help decarbonise the industry. Sky News has learnt that Grant Shapps, the business secretary, has told Tata Steel and British Steel that they must safeguard UK-based jobs for ten years if they
A chemical strike that killed 43 people in the Syrian city of Douma in 2018 was almost certainly the work of Syria’s air force, a watchdog has found. An investigation by the global chemical weapons watchdog has established there are “reasonable grounds to believe” Syria‘s air force dropped two cylinders containing chlorine gas in what
Fossil fuel lobbyists should be kicked out of the negotiating rooms at the international COP climate talks, global groups have urged the United Nations. In a letter to the UN and its climate arm, which convenes the annual summit, more than 450 global campaigning organisations said any oil company representative or industry lobbyist should “not
Jeremy Renner was trying to stop a six-tonne snow plough from crashing into his nephew when he was run over, a police report says. The 52-year-old Marvel actor was using the PistenBully machine to help his nephew Alexander Fries free his Ford pickup truck from the snow when the plough began to roll down the
A British teenage extremist has been jailed after his far-right videos were linked to two mass murders in the US. Daniel Harris used an online platform called World Truth Videos to disseminate a “call to arms” for his violent racist beliefs, a court heard. The 19-year-old from Glossop in Derbyshire was convicted of five counts
Those worried about the health of British politics have diagnosed a new disease at Westminster. Chris Patten, a grandee from the Conservative establishment, spotted what he called “Long Boris” last summer. Weeks after Boris Johnson announced his resignation as prime minister, Lord Patten, a former party chairman and former BBC chairman, lamented the persistent “corrupting
Asda is facing the prospect of strike action unless it makes significant concessions on its self-styled “efficiency” plans that have placed thousands of jobs at risk, a union source has told Sky News. GMB representatives met late on Thursday – hours after Asda revealed a set of proposals that mainly involved moving away from some
A number of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip have been intercepted by Israel’s missile defences. The cross-border fire came after an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank on Thursday that led to the largest single death toll in years of fighting in the area. The overnight rockets triggered sirens in Israeli communities near
A 28-year-old woman was dragged for eight miles in her car on a road in Kansas, Missouri, after getting caught underneath a truck. Police in Leawood, Kansas, are investigating after receiving reports at around 3.40am on Wednesday that a truck, driving westbound on Interstate 435 (I-435), was dragging a silver Kia under the edge of
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