Eight out of ten of Britain's small and medium sized businesses don’t have a health and wellbeing strategy in place, a study has found. Despite attitudes towards wellbeing in the workplace generally improving a whopping 82 per cent of SME business leaders confessed they don’t have a process in place...
Conservative MP Dame Caroline Spelman says she will back Rory Stewart in the next round of votes, crediting him for his “realistic and positive vision for Britain”. Stewart has gained ground today after Paul Masterton, MP for East Renfrewshire, announced he was supporting the International Development Secretary just hours after...
Rory Stewart has overtaken Jeremy Hunt into second favourite for leadership after a widely praised performance on last night’s Channel 4 debate. Bookies price Stewart at 12/1 with Hunt now languishing in third place at 21/1. Michael Gove is seemingly out of the running to make the top two with...
Animal welfare charities have called for greyhound racing to be banned after official figures show there were almost 1,000 deaths last year. Hundreds of dogs were “put to sleep” in 2018 for reasons including the high cost of medical treatment and the absence of a “viable option away from the...
Tens of thousands of British businesses could find themselves in trouble with the taxman by failing to follow new rules on keeping digital records. More than one million firms with an annual taxable income of in excess of £85,000 are now legally required to submit VAT returns online. But a...
But Dominic Raab says he isn't so sure about the leadership hopeful.
The number of people who own a second home, buy-to-let or overseas property has doubled since 2001 while the number of millennials who own a first home continues to fall. Research by the Resolution Foundation has found just 37 per cent of people born in the 1980s managed to buy...
Scotland is about to be governed by a Prime Minister elected by 160,000 Tory members, of which only 9,000 are based in Scotland, from a party that hasn’t won a major election in Scotland in 64 years, to deliver a Brexit that 62 per cent of Scotland’s voters rejected.
Britain’s businesses are being advised to prepare for no-deal Brexit after hard-line Brexiteers took the lead in the latest Conservative leadership vote. The Institute of Directors – one of the UK’s employers’ groups – said companies should not put faith in politicians to produce an agreement as the October 31st...