Priti Patel takes swipe at cabinet colleague Robert Jenrick over £1bn deal row

Priti Patel takes swipe at cabinet colleague Robert Jenrick over £1bn deal row – saying she ‘probably would not’ have acted as he did Home Secretary distances herself from Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick  Priti Patel says she ‘probably would not’ do the same thing as Cabinet colleague Mr Jenrick watched home scheme promotional video despite it … Read more

Hundreds of protesters camp outside City Hall in NYC and demand Mayor slash $1BN from NYPD

Hundreds of protesters camped outside City Hall are demanding that lawmakers slash the New York City police budget by $1billion. The ‘Occupy City Hall’ encampment began forming Tuesday following weeks of street protests sparked by the death of George Floyd and other black Americans killed by law enforcement.  The protesters are part of a national … Read more

Robert Jenrick ‘insistent’ Tory donor’s £1bn homes scheme passed before £50m tax hit, documents show

Cabinet minister Robert Jenrick pushed through a decision to approve a Tory donor’s £1billion housing development to allow him to save tens of millions of pounds in tax, documents tonight appear to show. The Housing Secretary tonight finally bowed to pressure to release correspondence over his role in the ‘cash for favours’ row involving Richard … Read more

Cabinet secretary launches probe into minister’s decision to approve Tory donor’s £1bn property deal

Top mandarin Sir Mark Sedwill launches probe into Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick’s decision to approve Tory donor’s £1billion property deal Robert Jenrick is accused of ‘cash for favours’ in dealings with Richard Desmond Mr Jenrick approved a 1,500-home development in east London in January  This was 2 months after he sat with Desmond at a … Read more

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick admits giving green light to £1bn development helped Tory donor 

A minister admitted last night he knew he was saving a Tory donor tens of millions of pounds in approving a £1billion property scheme. Robert Jenrick faces claims of ‘cash for favours’ over his dealings with former newspaper tycoon Richard Desmond. He over-ruled the local council and a planning inspector a day before the introduction … Read more

Ocado taps investors for £1bn to add firepower amid boom in demand

Ocado taps investors for £1bn to add firepower amid boom in demand during the virus crisis By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 10 June 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 10 June 2020 Online supermarket Ocado last night launched a £1billion fundraising. The company said it planned to raise £657million through a … Read more

EasyJet ‘may need to raise £1bn cash’ through a rights issue

EasyJet ‘may need to raise £1bn cash’ through a rights issue Analyst Mark Manduca says it may have to raise between £700m and £1bn Manduca warned that several things ‘could worsen this outcome’  By Ben Harrington For The Mail On Sunday Published: 22:31 BST, 9 May 2020 | Updated: 10:23 BST, 10 May 2020 A top … Read more

Las Vegas has $1bn plan to supply 260k homes with solar power

New $1billion project will supply 260,000 homes in Las Vegas with energy from the largest solar power facility in the US, and the eighth largest in the world The Trump administration has approved a new solar power project in Las Vegas Called Gemini Solar, the project will supply 260,000 with renewable electricity It’s estimated the … Read more

Lloyds boosts Covid lending: Bank boasts it approved loans worth £1bn

At last! Lloyds ramps up Covid lending: Bank boasts it has approved £1billion worth of loans to 32,000 firms By James Salmon for the Daily Mail Published: 22:54 BST, 5 May 2020 | Updated: 23:41 BST, 5 May 2020 Lloyds approved seven times as many ‘bounce back’ loans to struggling firms in a day than … Read more