Tag: Rishi Sunak

Is Sunak still collecting Russia-related blood money?

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In March of 2022, The Guardian reported that Sunak’s wife was profiting from Russian money. Are they still collecting Russian blood money?

The chancellor, Rishi Sunak, is under mounting pressure over accusations that his wife, Akshata Murthy, is collecting “bloody money” in dividends from a family company that has refused to pull out of Russia, despite Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

Labour and the Liberal Democrats are calling on Sunak to answer “very serious questions” over Murthy’s estimated $900m (£690m) stake in the IT services and consultancy company Infosys.

Sunak under pressure over wife’s Russia-related ‘blood money’ dividends, The Guardian)

The UK economy will shrink and perform worse than Russia’s IMF says

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The UK economy will shrink and perform worse than other advanced economies, including Russia, as the cost of living continues to hit households, the International Monetary Fund has said.

UK expected to be only major economy to shrink in 2023 – IMF, BBC

BBC is reporting that the UK economy is the worst of any advanced economy. Is rock bottom the Tory legacy? Is this failure of leadership the “Brexit dividend”? Either way, it stinks.

You can bet this PM will somehow come out of this richer

NHS staff in despair over working at breaking point

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As the NHS crisis has deepened in recent weeks, frontline staff have posted vivid, troubling accounts on social media of what has been happening in their workplaces. Many have described the NHS, and often themselves too, as “broken”. They have related the difficulty of providing proper care, the impact of acute understaffing and their fears for the NHS’s future.

‘It feels terminal’: NHS staff in despair over working at breaking point, The Guardian.com, 2023

Dangerous Tory Plan to Delete all EU Law

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The Tory government has given the civil service one year to retain any laws it needs even though it is highly likely to require more than seven years for current staffing levels to do so assuming that they did nothing else.

The government wants to sunset all EU laws despite recent revelations that the government was not even away of a third of such laws as they had entirely missed over a thousand of them. This would cause legal uncertainty, scare away business investment, and over-tax the civil service.

Trouble for Rishi Sunak as minister quits over scandal two weeks after both take office

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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has suffered his first ministerial resignation, just two weeks to the day since the new leader took office and made the appointment.

Cabinet Office minister Gavin Williamson said he was stepping down to “comply fully” with an investigation into whether he had bullied colleagues while in previous roles.

The Sunday Times and other newspapers have reported that Williamson had treated government officials aggressively and sent expletive-laden messages to colleagues.

Trouble for Rishi Sunak as minister quits over scandal two weeks after both take office, euronews.com