COVID CHAOS IN UK
Britain's Labour on track for landslide victory, exit poll suggests, amid anger with Conservatives
The poll released moments after voting closed indicated that center-left Labour's leader Keir Starmer will be the country's next prime minister. He will face a jaded electorate impatient for change against a gloomy backdrop of economic malaise, mounting distrust in institutions and a fraying social fabric. As thousands of electoral staff tallied millions of ballot papers at counting centers across the country, the Conservatives absorbed the shock of a historic defeat that would leave the depleted party in disarray and likely spark a contest to replace Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as leader.
Britain's Labour Party has won enough seats to have a majority in the UK Parliament
Starmer will face a jaded electorate impatient for change against a gloomy backdrop of economic malaise, mounting distrust in institutions and a fraying social fabric. "Tonight people here and around the country have spoken, and they're ready for change," Starmer told supporters in his constituency in north London, as the official count showed he'd won his seat. "You have voted. It is now time for us to deliver."
UK elections: Economic warnings dominate as campaign enters final day
Britain's Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak warned voters of dire economic consequences ahead of the national election. Starmer's Labour Party is poised for a big win, potentially ending 14 years of Conservative rule. Labour urges voters not to be complacent, highlighting economic turmoil under the Conservatives. Sunak emphasizes his economic stewardship post-COVID and warns of tax hikes under Starmer.
In the UK election campaign's final hours, Sunak battles to the end as Labour's Starmer eyes victory
Rishi Sunak, the current UK prime minister, is facing a national election on Thursday, marking the end of his 20-month tenure and the four Conservative prime ministers before him. The Labour Party is expected to elect a government that has not been in power since 2005. Sunak has expressed confidence in the outcome of the election, stating that things have turned a corner. Labour leader Keir Starmer has been campaigning for change, urging voters to support his center-left party.
UK's Rishi Sunak offers more tax cuts as election polls refuse to budge
With his Conservative Party consistently about 20 points behind Keir Starmer's opposition Labour in the polls, Sunak made a new appeal on Tuesday to what one Conservative lawmaker described as Britain's carpenters, bricklayers and electricians, by promising further tax cuts if they give him their vote.
Covid chaos in UK: Deaths skyrocket, patients pile into packed hospitals. Know what WHO has advised
According to the UK Health Security Agency, an increase of 598 new hospitalization cases has been recorded in the last seven days. This is, an 18.7% rise on the seven days prior, a total of 3,800 for that week overall.
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UK to toughen gambling rules for smartphone era
British media have reported the measures will include banning under-25s from betting more than 2 pounds ($2.49) per spin online, as well as forcing gambling firms to better scrutinise the financial resilience of punters.
UK budget: Economy set to avoid recession this year, Hunt says
Under a new set of forecasts, gross domestic product was set to shrink by 0.2% in 2023 rather than contract by 1.4% as projected in November by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), Hunt told parliament.
In big relief, US regulators backstop all Silicon Valley Bank deposits, while HSBC buys UK arm of failed bank
Capping days of chaos and uncertainty among startup founders and venture capital investors, US regulators stepped in to backstop all deposits in the shuttered Silicon Valley Bank to stem the ongoing crisis. Further, the UK arm of the bank was bought by HSBC for £1.
Fed’s all-clear on global supply chaos spurned by logistics watchers
Fed has said that the stress on the global supply chains has eventually returned to normal, in fact below normal levels.
Will it be high tea with Rishi? Here's what may work to Sunak’s advantage
We should not forget that there is a reason why the ruling party has, since 2010, squandered its prestige with so many far-fetched experiments. Those experiments served a real electoral purpose in a rapidly declining country.
Rishi Sunak declares candidacy to be new UK PM and 'fix economy'
Indian-origin former chancellor Rishi Sunak on Sunday formally declared his candidacy to contest the Conservative Party leadership election to replace Liz Truss as British Prime Minister and fix the economy.
Suella Braverman and dangers of the Drawbridge Diaspora
Braverman was revealed as a member of the dreaded Drawbridge Diaspora - those who, having made it to their promised land, want to ensure others can't follow in their footsteps. Their leitmotif is to assert "we did it legally, so we just want to stop others who don't want to do it that way."
UK's Liz Truss has fired finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng- BBC
Downing Street confirmed that Truss, in power for only 37 days, would hold a press conference later on Friday after Kwarteng was forced to rush back to London from IMF meetings in Washington to address the chaos. The BBC said Kwarteng had been sacked. Downing Street declined to comment.
WHO: COVID triples across Europe, hospitalizations double
WHO on Tuesday said that coronavirus cases have tripled across Europe in the past six weeks, accounting for nearly half of all infections globally.
Heathrow goes from Europe’s gateway to UK’s travel nightmare
How things change. Today, Heathrow is locked in yet another dispute with airlines after insisting they halt ticket sales during the lucrative school holiday season, a move that could cost as much as $500 million in lost revenue. The airport has been struggling to manage a post-pandemic rush in holidaymakers, with long queues of frustrated fliers becoming a common scene.
London's Heathrow airport apologises for travel disruptions
Heathrow, Britain's busiest airport, said service levels have been unacceptable at times in recent weeks, with long lines for security, delays helping passengers with reduced mobility, and luggage going missing or arriving late.
New UK finance minister Nadhim Zahawi pledges to boost economy
Zahawi, who took over the Treasury on Tuesday after the resignation of Rishi Sunak in protest against embattled Prime Minister Boris Johnson, said "nothing is off the table". But the former education minister also faced questions about whether he would even have a chance to steer the economy out of its slowdown, given Johnson's weakening grip on power.
Europe becomes the epicenter for this summer's travel chaos
Governments are taking note and taking action, as are financial markets. Investors are selling airline bonds as an industry that was supposed to profit from pent up demand for travel instead contends with upheaval again.
Singapore's $14 billion mega-port takes aim at shipping chaos
The just-in-time system for shipping has broken down as exporters in Asia face obstacles getting goods transported to customers in the US and Europe, and the situation has only worsened this year with Covid lockdowns in China and the war in Ukraine.
UK PM Boris Johnson scrapes win in party confidence vote over 'partygate'
Johnson, who scored a sweeping election victory in 2019, has been under increasing pressure after he and staff held alcohol-fuelled parties in his Downing Street office and residence when Britain was under lockdowns to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.
UK says it will work with aviation industry to solve travel chaos
Airlines had hoped for a bumper summer for passengers after two years of COVID-19 travel restrictions. But they have struggled to recruit staff after the turmoil of the pandemic, and complain it is taking longer to recruit new employees and vet them for security clearance. Shapps said staff cuts during the pandemic had gone too deep.
Expect more shipping chaos as Omicron forces transport workers to quit
The workers are facing weeks of quarantine combined with the fears of getting sick. This is leading to people refusing to take on work.
Delhi airport sets up 20 counters for international flyers who have pre-booked Covid test to ease 'chaos'
Countries in Europe including the UK, South Africa, Brazil, Botswana, China, Zimbabwe, Mauritius, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore and Israel have been placed in the 'at-risk' category by the Union Health Ministry.
UK leaders hail a return to normal; their phone app disagrees
In a week when Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised England a return to normality after months of lockdown, a coronavirus-weary nation has instead been battered by a new crisis.
UK-India flights resume, chaos at Delhi airport as govt modifies quarantine rule belatedly
Passenger flights resumed from the UK to India in limited numbers from Friday onwards after remaining suspended for 16 days due to the emergence of a new coronavirus variant in that country.
Chaos at Delhi, Mumbai airports as quarantine & testing resume
The rule, according to the Maharashtra government circular, is that all passengers will stay at the hotels for seven days and tested between the fifth and seventh day when the viral load is supposedly high.
Chaos at Delhi airport, British passengers stuck over eight hours to get COVID-19 report
As per Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), passengers from the UK will only be permitted to exit the airport when the entire passenger's Covid report out.
BioNTech confident COVID-19 vaccine effective against new UK mutation
Countries across the globe shut their borders to Britain on Monday due to fears about a highly infectious new coronavirus strain, causing travel chaos and raising the prospect of food shortages in the United Kingdom.
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