British Prime Minister David Cameron felt the heat Wednesday over plans to tax Cornish pasties and other snacks, a move that critics say will hit working families at a time of economic hardship. The government has been embroiled in the row since last week when it announced plans to close a loophole that allows bakeries [...]
LONDON — British supermarket chain Asda said Monday that it planned to create 5,000 jobs this year, in a move hailed by Prime Minister David Cameron amid rising unemployment in Britain. “Asda today announced that it will invest over £500 million ($780 million, 600 million euros) in its UK stores and depots in 2012, helping [...]
David Cameron has been involved in a furious row with French president Nicolas Sarkozy who said he was sick of the UK offering advice on the euro. The Prime Minister clashed with Mr Sarkozy during a six-hour EU summit in Brussels as leaders sought to hammer out a solution to the problems gripping the single [...]
Energy company bosses have agreed to a number of measures aimed at cutting household energy bills after a summit meeting with the Prime Minister. Firms will now display information on customer’s bills offering advice on getting the best energy deals. This will include switching to rival providers or different payment methods as well as taking [...]
David Cameron has said Libya’s interim government will co-operate with the Metropolitan police investigation into the 1984 killing of WPC Yvonne Fletcher. The prime minister’s comments come as it was reported that only one of the three main suspects in the shooting from the Libyan embassy in London 27 years ago remains alive. “There is [...]
Ministers have drawn up plans to allow police to deploy water cannon at 24 hours’ notice, David Cameron has announced. In a statement outside No 10, the prime minister insisted police will get whatever resources they need to bring the rioting across England under control, and that every contingency was being looked at. Cameron said [...]
If you go out on the streets tonight you’re in for a big surprise. That was the prime minister’s message to those he branded “thugs”. They would, he said, be “confronted and defeated” and risked wrecking not just the lives of others and their communities but their own as well. It was a statement of [...]
Prime Minister David Cameron has condemned “despicable” scenes of violence in the Egyptian capital Cairo, where supporters of Hosni Mubarak have attacked demonstrators calling for the president’s removal. Speaking alongside United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon after talks in 10 Downing Street, Mr Cameron said that the political transition to a new broad-based government in Egypt [...]
DITHERING David Cameron exposed the weakness of his Con-Dem coalition yesterday by refusing to sack blabbermouth Business Secretary Vince Cable. And Labour said the Prime Minister had only spared the “lame duck” Lib Dem to keep the “sagging tent” of his Government from collapsing. Cable had revealed the bitter conflict at the heart of the [...]
The lengthy delays to air travel caused by snow at Heathrow airport over the weekend have been frustrating, Prime Minister David Cameron has said. He said the cabinet had discussed the widespread travel chaos “extensively” on Tuesday, as thousands of passengers remained stranded across the UK. BAA said Heathrow’s southern runway, shut since Saturday, had [...]
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