More results...
US investment group typically buys stakes in underperforming firms and seeks changes to way they are runThe US activist investor firm Elliott Investment Management has taken a multibillion-dollar stake in Salesforce, the business software company that …
Frank McAveety apologised for comments made in Holyrood meeting in 2010 about 15-year-old girlThe Scottish Labour party has been criticised for putting a former MSP who made “deeply sexualised and racist remarks” about a 15-year-old girl on to its shor…
Jeremy Hunt expected to confirm help for British Steel and Tata to employ lower-emissions technologyThe companies running Britain’s four remaining steel blast furnaces have been offered £600m in government support to invest in lower-emissions technolog…
Yellow weather warning in place for large area of England after extremely cold temperatures overnightDozens of flights out of the UK’s largest airport have been cancelled as freezing fog causes disruption to transport networks. Forecasters warned that …
Prime minister initiates inquiry as ‘clearly in this case there are questions that need answering’UK politics live – latest news updatesRishi Sunak has told his ethics adviser to investigate suggestions that Nadhim Zahawi was forced to pay a fine and m…
Sales for Christmas and new year period are up on last year but down on pre-Covid tradingThe pub group Fuller, Smith & Turner has issued a profit warning, blaming months of train strikes for a £4m slump in sales including a plunge in festive season…
Commissioner for public appointments and corporation to separately examine Tory donor’s selectionUK politics live – latest news updatesRichard Sharp’s selection as BBC chair is the subject of two separate investigations, amid allegations he helped Bori…
National Grid scheme launches on Monday between 5pm and 6pm – we look at whether it’s worth itHouseholds and businesses in Great Britain will be paid to cut back on their electricity use between 5pm and 6pm on Monday, in the first real test of a Nation…
Labour MP asks whether Zahawi statement in the summer was untrue, with Cabinet Office minister saying he does not know the answerNadhim Zahawi, the Conservative party chair, has welcomed the decision by Rishi Sunak to ask the No 10 ethics adviser to in…
Ally signals Tory chair is digging in and ‘absolutely not resigning’ over tax row despite cross-party callsUK politics live – latest news updatesNadhim Zahawi is resisting calls to quit as chair of the Conservative party amid a row over previously unpa…