Boris Johnson makes top Brexit adviser Lord Frost a Cabinet minister

Boris Johnson makes his top Brexit adviser Lord Frost a Cabinet minister just weeks after dropping plans to make him National Security Adviser Lord Frost is to become a minister in the Cabinet Office, Downing St said Comes weeks after PM axed plans to make him the National Security Adviser Frost is ex-ambassador to Denmark … Read more

Britons may NEVER go to work with a cough again, top scientific adviser predicts

Britons may NEVER go to work with a cough again because Covid has made it ‘socially unacceptable’, top scientific adviser predicts Professor Dame Angela McLean told Science and Technology Select Committee She said it would be ‘powerful’ if going in sick became ‘socially unacceptable’ Boris Johnson is not expected to give a firm date for … Read more

Number 10’s race adviser tries to quit over ‘unbearable tension’ within government

Number 10’s race adviser tries to quit over ‘unbearable tension’ within government as he slams Tory politics ‘steeped in division’ – before withdrawing his resignation after talks with vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi Number 10’s adviser on ethnic minorities Samuel Kasumu retracted resignation Mr Kasumu reportedly said tensions in Government were at times ‘unbearable’ But retracted letter … Read more

Multi-millionaire financier and Tory adviser Ben Goldsmith says he’s staying in the UAE

As thousands of Britons raced home to beat the travel deadline from the United Arab Emirates yesterday, one man defiantly declared that he was staying put. Awkwardly for the Government, that man was one of its own advisers, the multi-millionaire financier Ben Goldsmith. The Daily Mail can disclose that Mr Goldsmith, who is on the board … Read more

Boris Johnson DROPS plan to make Lord Frost National Security Adviser

Boris Johnson DITCHES plan to make chief Brexit negotiator Lord Frost the UK’s new National Security Adviser after backlash from critics PM said in June 2020 that David Frost would be new National Security Adviser Appointment of UK’s chief Brexit negotiator to role prompted a wave of criticism Theresa May said Lord Frost was ‘a … Read more

Can an estate agent hold back my house offer if I don’t use their firm’s finance adviser?

I am searching for a new home in Kent, where I live. I recently saw a terraced house that I liked on Rightmove and went for a viewing. Afterwards, I decided to make an offer. I approached the vendor’s estate agent, Miles & Barr. When I told them my offer, the agent I spoke to … Read more

Covid UK: SAGE adviser says ‘Tier 5’ may be needed to suppress virus

A SAGE adviser today hinted a third national lockdown including mass school closures may be required to suppress Covid as he insisted ‘keeping people apart’ stops the virus from spreading.  Professor Sir Mark Walport claimed the ‘mutant’ strain of coronavirus was transmitting rapidly among children, with those aged between 12 and 16 seven times more … Read more

Queen axes her chief art adviser

The Queen has made her chief art adviser redundant amid restructuring plans undertaken during the pandemic, axing the role created under Charles I.    It is understood Desmond Shawe-Taylor could be the last Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures after departing the role under the ‘voluntary severance programme’, the Times reported.  The Royal Collection Trust confirmed on Tuesday that Mr … Read more

Russian hack of federal government is ‘hard to overstate’ says ex-homeland security adviser

The two agencies responsible for maintaining America’s nuclear weapons stockpile have evidence they were hacked by suspected Kremlin cyberspies, it emerged Thursday. Politico reported that the Energy Department and the National Nuclear Security Administration have begun to warn Congress that networks they control were breached – including at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which conducts … Read more

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Good financial advice can be life changing. Help from an expert at key life moments can steer you towards a richer retirement, a more luxurious lifestyle, and greater wealth to share with loved ones.  But just eight per cent of adults received regulated financial advice in the last year, new figures from the financial watchdog … Read more