Farmers warned that up to 120,000 animals face being slaughtered as they lack space to house them‘Fallen stock’: what happens now to the UK’s unwanted pigs?The slaughter of healthy pigs has begun on British farms, with farmers forced to kill animals to…
Morrisons’ new owner has plenty of wiggle room in takeover terms | Nils Pratley
CD&R has made fine-sounding pledges but they don’t stop this being yet another debt-fuelled buyoutThe auction for Morrisons wasn’t worth the wait, but the mission to cast Clayton Dubilier & Rice as a kindly, far-sighted owner of the UK’s fourth…
The Conservative conference shows a party in denial while all around is crisis | Polly Toynbee
The Tories call it a ‘period of adjustment’. But the shortages, price hikes, and this week’s universal credit cut, will force them to face realityThe Tory party conference seems to be floating along in a sea of delusion. Outside their cocooned security…
UK fuel crisis ‘could go on for further week’ despite military help
One in five forecourts in London and south-east of England still out of fuelThe UK fuel crisis could run another week, fuel retailers have warned, as military tanker drivers took to the roads to relieve pressure on petrol stations.One in five forecourt…
Tory conference: Sunak rejects Truss’s suggestion government has no responsibility for food supply
Follow the latest politics news as the Conservative party meets in Manchester for its conference The New Statesman’s George Eaton has posted this in response to one of Rishi Sunak’s comments this morning.My colleague Matthew Weaver is writing a blog wi…
Military arrives to ease fuel crisis, as shortages continue across London and south-east – business live
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsLatest: Military arrives at Buncefield oil depotPetrol retailers: South-east still seeing shortages, but rest of county improvingPRA: Could take 10 days to rebuild forecourt stocksEconomist: Pub…
Food banks warn of smaller parcels due to HGV supply shortages
Exclusive: declining stocks and expected higher demand for charity could see struggling families given less in their food parcelsFood banks have said they will have to shrink the size of the parcels they give to struggling families owing to declining s…
Ben Jennings: Boris Johnson, the great leveller
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Merseyside Labour MPs outraged at Keir Starmer writing article for the Sun
Newspaper has never been forgiven for baseless criticisms of Liverpool fans at Hillsborough stadium tragedyKeir Starmer has provoked outrage among Labour MPs representing Merseyside after he wrote an opinion piece for the Sun.The Labour leader used an …
Brexit has hit the economy – and school dinners | Letters
Andrew Kerin on how supply chain issues have reduced school meals, Prof Tom Baum on the recruitment crisis in the hospitality industry and Colwyn Lee on worker shortages across sectorsI have received an email from my daughter’s primary school advising …