ITV, KPMG and Diageo are among 20 top firms pledging to have at least one ethnic-minority director on their boards by 2024 By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 00:02 GMT, 26 October 2020 | Updated: 00:02 GMT, 26 October 2020 ITV, KPMG and Diageo are among 20 top firms pledging to have at … Read more
Doubts over the Government’s ambitious pledge on gigabit-capable broadband deepened on Tuesday after the minister responsible for its roll-out failed to say how confident he felt about making the 2025 target. Full-fibre and gigabit-capable broadband to every home and business across the UK by 2025 was a key Conservative manifesto pledge in the 2019 general … Read more
Doubts over the Government’s ambitious pledge on gigabit-capable broadband deepened on Tuesday after the minister responsible for its roll-out failed to say how confident he felt about making the 2025 target. Full-fibre and gigabit-capable broadband to every home and business across the UK by 2025 was a key Conservative manifesto pledge in the 2019 general … Read more
In his big speech to last week’s Conservative party conference, Boris Johnson promised a ‘green industrial revolution’ to drive Britain’s economic recovery. In pledging £160 million towards wind power, the prime minister made it clear he sees a big future for renewable energy in Britain. And it isn’t just Boris who’s backing wind farms. Across … Read more
Will Boris Johnson’s ‘Generation Buy’ pledge leave the taxpayer liable for £44BILLION? Plan to help two million people onto the housing ladder could see Government underwriting chunk of mortgage cost in ‘state guarantee’ PM pledged to help millions on to housing ladder in conference speech He said he wanted to help first-time buyers get 95% mortagages … Read more
Doubts were expressed last night about Boris Johnson’s ability to deliver his promise to power every home with offshore wind by 2030. The Prime Minister pledged £160million to help upgrade ports and factories to ensure that 40 gigawatts of electricity comes from turbines in the sea by the end of the decade. But industry leaders … Read more
‘Covid is the biggest disaster since 1945. Do we think £160mn of floating windmills will make everyone forget?’ Tory MPs savage Boris’s pledge for windpower for every home – as analysts warn it could cost £50BILLION Boris Johnson pledged to power every UK home with offshore wind in 10 years But analysts suggested massive surge … Read more
Promise of a dividend at Smiths Group was not enough to put the engineering group in investors’ good books. The company, which creates items from intensive care devices to airport security scanners, announced plans to cut jobs after its profits for the year to July 31 tanked by 23 per cent to £327million. And even … Read more
Renters betrayed as new evictions approach after housing secretary ‘tears up his pledge’ to protect them Robert Jenrick introduced ban on convictions at the start of the Covid pandemic But government to allow evictions to resume in England and Wales from Monday Figures show 322,000 private tenants fell behind on rent due to coronavirus By … Read more
Dividend-starved shareholders were given good news yesterday after two British building firms vowed to bring back their payouts next year. When the pandemic reached its height and hammered construction businesses, Redrow and Galliford Try were among companies that suspended their payouts to save cash. But the pair will resume their divis and said they expected … Read more