OPINIONDonald Trump just solved economic' blackhole' problem for Labour( Image: Doug Mills-Pool

Then programmes get delayed or undersubscribed so payments aren’t needed.... And departments do find efficiency savings if pushed by the Treasury.... This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding....

However, the bank has now rowed back on this, because it’s no longer fashionable to clobber white men over the head with diversity nonsense when the world is clearly moving in a different direction.... Starbucks has stopped tying executive bonuses to DEI goals, and Harley-Davidson scrapped its DEI programme last year.... The brand has been in agony ever since.In fact, its advert at last week’s Super Bowl highlighted Bud Light’s efforts to make amends – so much so that it featured ‘real men’ di

And Mike Park said the problems stemmed from the Government’s failure to stand up to Brussels adequately to defend the interests of UK fishermen.... Mr Park, chief executive of the Scottish White Fish Producers’ Association( SWFPA), warned the terms of the deal signed in December were likely to result in a massive shortfall in key quotas for whitefish vessels which will see some businesses go under.He told Fishing News in terms of key species such as cod, saithe, hake and" Norwegian others", he

Local councils have warned Rachel Reeves they may have to cut free and cheaper bus travel for the elderly, schoolchildren and vulnerable groups because of a ￡450million funding gap.... According to the Local Government Association( LGA), the national membership body for local authorities, around ￡452million was spent by councils in 2024 to enable older and disabled people to travel free at off-peak on local bus services. The figure they cite is the difference between how much money the governme

across the economy.... They claimed that there was a ￡22 billion blackhole that needed to be filled

Badenoch savages Rachel Reeves as she exposes ￡2. 3bn blackhole 154 Comments Labour civil war erupts over

entered government, we were left with a ￡22 billion blackhole in our public finances, with local

talking about the so-called ￡22bn blackhole created by the Tories.... Just when she and Keir

They are worried about what it means for government ambitions and commitments.“ But of course they can’t see the overall picture — quite how difficult the inheritance really is and the scale of the pressures on tax and borrowing.... But it’s very, very difficult for all of them.” A source in one government department said: “ We are still in the middle of negotiations.... “ They’re using a classic trade union negotiating tactic, ” the source said....