British PM vows to slash red tape
Unions express concern as PM to say government will ‘rip out the bureaucracy that blocks investment’ Keir Starmer will promise to slash red tape and “rip out the bureaucracy that blocks investment”
UK overseas aid budget faces £900m raid
With the amount spent on refugees and asylum seekers this year on course to hit £3.6bn, the sum available for international projects must be cut again, warns thinktank…reports Asian Lite News Ministers
Cardinal Nichols urges faithful to lobby MPs to oppose assisted dying
The Labour MP Kim Leadbeater will formally introduce a private member’s bill on the issue to the House of Commons on Wednesday…reports Asian Lite News The UK’s highest-ranking Catholic bishop has urged
Starmer steps into cabinet row over P&O to rescue global summit
The workers sacked in March 2022 were told of their fate by the company in pre-recorded Zoom video…reports Asian Lite News Keir Starmer expressed his full confidence on Saturday in the transport
Pressure mounts on Reeves to drop £1.3bn cut to benefits for disabled
The leading independent thinktank, the Resolution Foundation, has called on the chancellor to drop or delay changes to the work capability assessment…reports Asian Lite News Rachel Reeves is coming under intense pressure
Irish PM demands Israel ‘stop firing’ at UN peacekeepers
Ireland accounts for 347 of the 10,000 soldiers serving in the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon…reports Asian Lite News Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris on Saturday urged Israel to heed “the concerns
Scotland’s former First Minister Alex Salmond dies
Salmond, who served as First Minister of Scotland from 2007 to 2014 and was a prominent leader of the Scottish National Party…reports Asian Lite News Public figures from across Scotland and the
Reeves ‘must find billions more’ in time for Budget
The government has promised no return to “austerity” for public services and a boost to government investment, designed to kickstart growth…reports Asian Lite News Chancellor Rachel Reeves will need to come up
Tories may never recover
The choice of either Robert Jenrick or Kemi Badenoch could prove that those predicting doom may not be wrong, writes Mihir Bose The choice of Tory MPs to make the Tory leadership
Religious hate crimes hit record high
Overall, there were 140,561 hate crimes—defined as an offence based on a person’s race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, disability or transgender identity—recorded by the police in the 12 months to March…reports Asian