Burnham scraps VAT on electricity bills but most firms miss out
Andy Burnham has scrapped VAT on household electricity bills in the first economic act of his premiership, a cut worth around £45 a year on...
Iceland boss quits No 10 job: ‘damn hard to get anything done’
The businessman brought in to fix Britain’s cost of living crisis has quit, declaring it “damn hard to get anything done” in Whitehall, the day...
Reynolds returns to a beefed-up business brief as Burnham axes DSIT
Jonathan Reynolds has been appointed secretary of state for business, innovation, science and trade, returning to the department he led at the start of Sir...
Firms flying blind on hotel carbon as data arrives after booking
UK businesses are being asked to cut the carbon footprint of workforce travel while the information they need to do it arrives after the room...
Defence rebel Healey handed No 11 in Burnham’s shock first move
John Healey, the minister who walked out of Sir Keir Starmer’s cabinet in a row over defence spending, has been handed the nation’s chequebook. Andy...
Lineker’s Rest Is Football lands two more years on Netflix
Goalhanger, the independent British production company behind The Rest Is Football, has converted a 40-day World Cup experiment into a two-year deal with Netflix, in...