UK restaurant chain Beefeater is closing all of its 106 sites.
The group directly blamed crippling cost pressures stemming from Government policy.
In particular, Reeves's increases in employer NICs and business rates, both of which rendered the traditional pub-restaurant business model "unsustainable."
The cost of living crisis has worsened year after year since Covid, and Labour's tax rises have put the final nail in the coffin.
British industry is crumbling under Labour's watch!
@10DowningStreet If not employed by the age of 25, apparently, the odds of ever being employed are huge.
A spell of national service would motivate and build character - providing the impetus needed.
Hey Andy- listen!
There is concern about the cost of the Clacton by-election of £250,000 (which Reform UK has offered to pay). Meantime the Manchester Mayoral by-election caused by Burnham quitting is likely to cost several million pounds (which Labour has not offered to pay).
As an engineer, I've never liked regulations that prescribe specific solutions rather than desired outcomes.
If the objective is lower energy consumption, measure and regulate that.
Mandating particular technologies can sometimes lock out better solutions we haven't thought of yet.
Several serving and former Hampshire Police Officers have told me that ‘we had it drummed into us about our white privilege and unconscious bias’.
Training was outsourced to a third party company and the trainer ‘was deeply hateful of white people and our culture.’
Officers have reported to me about being furious but unable to complain out of fear for their jobs.
This is exactly why I blocked the Race Action Plan as Home Secretary.
It is disgraceful that this stuff went on in policing. And the PCC and CC need to be held to account.
Inquiry? Using public funds? Into a financial mess in a party?
Surely any aggrieved paid up SNP members should get hold of the accounts and auditors and leaders. @bbc@bbcscotcast
@bernardjenkin Why was procedure regarding vetting different in the FCDO? There must have been a reason? Possibly to give the Government, the Prime Minister and thus the Country, the flexibility to stack cards internationally to its advantage? So keep the boss in the picture?
This week the National Education Union has vowed to stop a Reform government- by urging its 500,000 teacher members to campaign against Reform in the classroom.
This is not education. It’s indoctrination.
And it’s against the law.
UK gas is four times the cost of US gas. There is no world price for gas by pipe. Domestic gas down a pipe is cheaper than imported liquefied gas. Why can’t BBC interviewers and government Ministers understand that?
Why does the government think this a good time to give away the freehold of Diego Garcia, and to give the EU and Spain some powers to govern and tax Gibraltar where we have another key military base?