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Boris Johnson may block a Chinese-owned company from purchasing the UK’s largest producer of semiconductors, a senior government adviser has suggested, as they warned Beijing was on the brink of initiating a new “cold war”. Tony Abbott, the former prime minister of Australia recruited by Johnson to advise on post-Brexit trade, said he was heartened by a review being launched into the takeover of Welsh microchip manufacturer Newport Wafer Fab by Nexperia and suggested it meant the process could be paused. Johnson had asked his national security adviser, Sir Stephen Lovegrove, to look into the sale after previously being accused of acquiescing…

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has called for the government to ban the use of umbrella companies to employ agency workers, amid fears their use could as coronavirus pandemic restrictions are removed. Umbrella companies, used by recruitment agencies and businesses to employ workers ranging from cleaners to high-paid contractors, have come under increased scrutiny as evidence has mounted of abuses of workers’ rights as well as fraud. Frances O’Grady, the TUC’s general secretary, said: “These scandalous workplace practices have no place in modern Britain. But our inadequate regulations let dodgy umbrella companies off the hook – allowing them to act with impunity.”…

“Let no one deceive you, the rapture is imminent according to Bible chronology.” — Pastor Chris Oyakhilome. The man of God, Reverend (Dr.) Chris Oyakhilome, has stated unequivocally that the rapture of the Church is imminent. Pastor Chris explained that this is true according to Bible chronology while teaching during a session of the ongoing ‘Your LoveWorld Specials’ (Season III, Phase VI). He admonished God’s people not to be deceived by those who do not believe in the rapture or opine that it will not happen any time soon. https://vimeo.com/580675224 It should be recalled that in previous episodes of ‘Your…

Until the last possible moment, Rob Holding held out a sliver of hope that the most gruelling of years might yet be extended further. Anyone grasping for positives from Arsenal’s season might have cited his increasingly consistent, mature performances at the heart of their defence but they were not enough to earn a first senior England call-up for Euro 2020. “When the squads were being announced I had my eye on it,” he says. “You never know, so I was looking. It didn’t happen for me this time but that’s not going to deter me or make me feel it’s…

Dominic Cummings personally called a former colleague on the Vote Leave Brexit campaign and asked if his company would work for the government on its response to the Covid pandemic, leading to the award of a £580,000 Cabinet Office contract with no competitive process. In an email on 20 March 2020, Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser asked the most senior civil servant responsible for contracts to sign off the budget immediately, and that if “anybody in CABOFF [the Cabinet Office] whines”, to tell them Cummings had “ordered it” from the prime minister. The company, Hanbury Strategy, was founded by Paul Stephenson shortly after the…

The U.S. federal government should have stopped funding research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2015 when China reduced its cooperation with the French in building and operating the lab, according to the leader of an investigation into COVID-19’s origins by the State Department under the Trump administration. In 2015, French intelligence officials warned the U.S. State Department and their own foreign ministry that China was cutting back on agreed collaboration at the lab, former State official David Asher, now a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute think tank, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. By 2017, the French…

MATT HANCOCK’s local council has passed a vote on no confidence in the disgraced former Health Secretary. A resolution passed by councillors in Newmarket said the West Suffolk MP had “neglected the best interests of his constituents” when he was caught breaking lockdown rules to have an affair with his aide. Councillors said he “demonstrated hypocrisy and hubris in the pursuit of his own interests” The motion passed after the Mayor of Newmarket Michael Jefferys, who is a member of the Labour Party, used his casting vote to pass the motion. The Town Council have five members voting in favour…

British lender Metro Bank (MTRO.L) reported a smaller half-year loss on Wednesday, as it battles to turn around its finances after the pandemic had plunged it deeper into the red. The challenger bank is betting a push into consumer lending will help put it on a better footing, after a turbulent period staring with a major loan book error in 2019. read more Metro nearly halved its pre-tax losses to 139 million pounds ($192.90 million) for the six months to June, compared to a 241 million pounds loss the prior year after a hefty pandemic bad loan provision. The bank was launched more…

LONDON, July 28 (Reuters) – British house prices fell in July after a coronavirus emergency tax break for buyers was scaled back at the end of June but demand for bigger homes as a result of the pandemic is likely to support the market, mortgage lender Nationwide said. In monthly terms, house prices fell by 0.5% from June, their first fall since March, slowing the annual increase to 10.5% from June’s leap of 13.4% which was the steepest rise in 17 years. Economists polled by Reuters had expected a less marked cooling of the market, predicting prices would rise by…

Manchester United have confirmed they have reached an agreement with Real Madrid to sign the centre-back Raphaël Varane. Having completed the signing of Borussia Dortmund winger Jadon Sancho in a £73m deal last week, the 28-year-old is set to be the next arrival. United said in a statement: “Manchester United is delighted to announce the club has reached agreement with Real Madrid for the transfer of French international defender and World Cup winner, Raphaël Varane, subject to a medical and to player terms being finalised.” It is not expected that Varane would be able to undergo a medical until next…