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18 Oct
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Sunday newspaper round-up: Delta mutation, Foreign summer holidays, Anglo American

The decision to reopen on June 21 has been made "more difficult" by the Indian variant’s spread to the most dominant variant in the UK, the Health Secretary has said. Matt Hancock told Sky News that the latest advice the Government has received is that the so-called Delta mutation first identified in India is 40 per cent more transmissible than the previously dominant Kent variant. - Sunday Telegraph.

18 Oct
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Sunday newspaper round-up: Return to normal, Morrisons, Binance

Sajid Javid is to push for lockdown to end “as soon as possible” over fears of the "cost" of shutting down the economy. The newly appointed Health Secretary, who replaced Matt Hancock after he was forced to resign for breaking lockdown rules to conduct an affair with an aide, said on Sunday it was his "most immediate priority to see to see that we can return to normal as soon and as quickly as possible". - Sunday Telegraph.

18 Oct
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Sunday newspaper round-up: Covid-19 restrictions, Airline industry, Aviva

Britain will have a six-week window to open up in the summer or risk keeping Covid-19 restrictions in place until the spring, ministers fear. Boris Johnson on Saturday gave his clearest signal yet he is planning to delay a full return to normality for another month, as he said he wanted to give Covid-19 vaccines "extra legs" in "the race between the vaccines in the lockdowns". - Sunday Telegraph.

30 Jun
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Wednesday newspaper round-up: Binance, Google ads, Bridgepoint

Boris Johnson’s government has been accused of rushing into post-Brexit trade deals with countries where workers’ rights are systematically violated or denied, including five out of the 10 worst offenders worldwide. Trade union leaders and Labour said the UK government was turning its back on workers around the world and neglecting its commitment to fundamental human and labour rights in the scramble to demonstrate the benefits of Brexit by striking free trade deals outside the EU.

29 Jun
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Tuesday newspaper round-up: Covid passports, HS2, Facebook, BrewDog

Hopes have been raised of summer holidays in Europe for fully vaccinated Britons as a deal with Brussels on Covid passports neared completion and Germany failed to convince popular destinations to pull an “emergency brake” on UK visitors. Restrictions on travel are tightening across the continent for tourists coming from the UK who have not had two jabs, owing to concerns over the highly transmissible Delta variant now dominant in Britain. - Guardian.

28 Jun
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Monday newspaper round-up: Homebuyers, Binance, Oxford Biomedica

The strength of the UK jobs market and rates of pay has been overstated, according to new research, just as the government prepares to cut back its wage support scheme for furloughed workers this week. There is a risk of “dangerous complacency”, the Resolution Foundation warned, as people are still working fewer hours than they were before the pandemic and headline pay growth is overstated. - Guardian.

25 Jun
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Friday newspaper round-up: BuzzFeed, office return, NS&I

The UK’s largest business lobby group has joined the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and the human rights watchdog in calling for mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting, saying data collection will help tackle racial inequalities at work. In a letter to the Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), TUC and Equality and Human Rights Commission, said the move would help draw attention to pay disparities and a lack of minority representation across senior positions, and hopefully spark action by employers.

24 Jun
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Thursday newspaper round-up: Andrew Bailey, Carillion, MoD

The governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, has been cleared of misleading an inquiry into the London Capital & Finance investment scandal, but an influential committee of MPs has found that the regulator he ran until last year “fell short” in its duty to protect the public. In a new report, MPs on the Treasury select committee said that after the high-profile collapse of London Capital & Finance (LC&F), which saw thousands of people lose money, the Financial Conduct Authority needed to be “more interventionist” and “should make more frequent use of its powers”.

23 Jun
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Wednesday newspaper round-up: Morrisons, Channel 4, Nordgold

Labour has urged the government to step in to ensure a potential private equity takeover of supermarket chain Morrisons does not affect Britain’s food security, damage farming, or lead to job losses. The country’s fourth-largest grocer, which employs 110,000 people, said on Saturday it had rejected an unsolicited £5. 5bn offer from US buyout group Clayton, Dubilier and Rice (CD&R). - Guardian .

22 Jun
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Tuesday newspaper round-up: Working from home, BT Sport, Morrisons

The industries most affected by the UK’s delayed reopening will need to find almost £50m to cover wages once the government’s furlough scheme is cut back on 1 July, according to analysis by the Labour party. Hospitality firms and cultural and arts businesses, which still have large numbers of workers on furlough, will need to cover the higher cost of keeping workers on the scheme even though they have no choice but to limit the number of customers they serve over the next month or are forced to remain shut.

21 Jun
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Monday newspaper round-up: UK economic recovery, inflation, pensions

The UK’s economic recovery accelerated in May as tourism and recreation firms reopened, but the delay in ending Covid-19 restrictions is putting hospitality firms at risk, research shows. Eleven out of 14 UK sectors reported faster growth in output month on month in May, up from nine in April, according to the Lloyds Bank UK Recovery Tracker, as the UK moved further out of lockdown. - Guardian.

18 Jun
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Friday newspaper round-up: UK economy, Tesla, Channel 4, Nutmeg

Britain’s economic recovery will accelerate into the autumn despite the threat from staff shortages and higher inflation, according to a forecast by the business lobby group, the CBI. The economy will expand by 8. 2% this year and by 6. 1% next year as the successful vaccination programme allows lockdown easing to continue next month, driving a surge in consumer spending and business activity in the second half of 2021, the CBI said. - Guardian .

17 Jun
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Thursday newspaper round-up: Greensill, easyJet, Spire Healthcare

The number of EU citizens searching for work in Britain has fallen by more than a third since Brexit, according to a study that exposes the impact on UK employers as they struggle to recruit staff. Figures from the jobs website Indeed show searches by EU-based jobseekers for work in the UK were down by 36% in May from average levels in 2019. Low-paid jobs in hospitality, the care sector and warehouses recorded the biggest declines at 41%. - Guardian.

16 Jun
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Wednesday newspaper round-up: Morgan Stanley, rail chiefs, pension triple lock

Less than half of the 260 smaller companies listed on the London Stock Exchange’s main index have met the target of having a third of their board roles occupied by women, and more than half still have all-male executive leadership teams. The campaign group Women on Boards UK has analysed all firms below the FTSE 350 All-Share index, and identified what it calls a “permafrost” of smaller businesses below the top layer that have been slow in taking steps to diversify.

15 Jun
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Tuesday newspaper round-up: Hospitality industry, Stobart Air, Vodafone, Rolls-Royce

Plans by City banks to bring thousands of workers back to the office are in disarray after Boris Johnson postponed a lifting of lockdown restrictions. Guidelines encouraging people to “continue to work from home if you can” in England were due to be dropped on 21 June, but that move will now be delayed by four weeks. - Guardian .

14 Jun
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Monday newspaper round-up: Climate crisis, Qualcomm, hospitality rescue

The head of the UK’s biggest business lobby group has warned that the corporate world is “way off track” in tackling the climate crisis. Tony Danker, the director-general of the CBI, called on the government to do more to unlock the resources of the private sector by publishing new guidance on heating and transport. - Guardian.

11 Jun
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Friday newspaper round-up: Camelot, Selfridges, Morrisons

The French president last night ramped up the pressure on Boris Johnson over the Northern Ireland protocol by insisting “nothing is negotiable” as the G7 summit of world leaders risked being overshadowed by the bitter standoff over Brexit. In a defiant intervention as he prepared to travel to the UK, Emmanuel Macron warned Boris Johnson that France is not open to renegotiating any aspect of the protocol – and even appeared to raise questions about whether the UK could be trusted.

10 Jun
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Thursday newspaper round-up: Airports, G7 tax plan, electric cars

The UK aviation sector has warned that airports are likely to lose at least £2. 6bn this summer as the “chaotic” Covid traffic light system halts international travel. Airports said the coming months could deal a heavier financial blow than 2020, while airlines called for grants to offset the impact of travel restrictions and protect jobs. - Guardian.

09 Jun
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Wednesday newspaper round-up: Easing delay, Fastly, Cambridge Quantum Computing

Rishi Sunak is willing to accept a delay of up to four weeks to the final stage of England’s reopening roadmap, the Guardian understands, as the government considers extending restrictions beyond 21 June. Ministers will continue to scrutinise data on cases and hospitalisations over the coming days, with a final decision set to be announced by the prime minister on Monday. From 21 June nightclubs are due to reopen, with the cap on wedding numbers, large-scale events and indoor mixing lifted and guidance on working from home and mask-wearing dropped.

08 Jun
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Tuesday newspaper round-up: Hospitality rent, TfL, FaceTime

The government must convince commercial landlords to forego some of the rent built up during the pandemic or face a wave of insolvencies when payments fall due in July, business leaders have warned. Speaking at a Treasury select committee hearing, trade body bosses in travel, hospitality and retail said the easing of restrictions was not enough to avoid business failures and job losses in debt-laden sectors. - Guardian.