Author: News Desk

After sacking her chancellor and abandoning a flagship policy, the prime minister is fighting for her political future The new chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, is on Sky News this morning discussing his plans for the position. He says the Liz Truss administration has made “mistakes” and warned there are “difficult decisions ahead”. I want to do the right thing for British people. It’s a big honour to do the job that I’ve been asked to do by the prime minister but I want to be honest with people: we have some very difficult decisions ahead. There were mistakes. It was a…

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Exclusive: critics say stripped-down Environment Agency has not levied a fine in 12 years so no point to higher cap The government’s pledge to raise the cap on the amount of money the Environment Agency can fine water companies for sewage pollution to £250m has been described as “hot air”, as the Guardian can reveal the regulator has failed to levy any such penalties since it was given powers to do so 12 years ago. Variable monetary penalties (VMPs) were introduced in 2010 to enable the Environment Agency to directly levy fines for serious environmental offences without having to go…

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