This is a bigger banking scandal than the Coutts/NatWest Farrago.
Half-year results for @NatWestGroup show pre-tax operating profits in H1 2023 soar by 37% to £3.6bn, much of it due to the huge boost from rising interest rates, which it has not passed on to savers. Lloyds and Barclays are in the same boat. At a time when folks could do with all the help they can get banks need to start treating depositors fairly.
The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon.
The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.
I have to check this- am I right that Rishi's wife took taxpayer's money- from nurses, from teachers, from cleaners, from delivery drivers- during the pandemic to furlough staff for a company that doesn't pay tax in the UK whilst she was a non-dom non UK tax payer?
With inflation heading for 11%, last year’s commitment of multi-year funding for defence till 2024/25 will not deliver the 1.5% “real” per annum rise in resources - from a base year of 19/20 - that was heralded by the government. That much is blindingly obvious…