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MIGRATION LEVELS TOO HIGH, SAYS UK PM SUNAK Illegal migration hit a record of 745,000 last year Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the number of migrants to the UK was ‘too high’ on Friday after net migration broke record figures for 2022. Annual net migration to the United Kingdom hit a record of 745,000 last year and has stayed at elevated levels, official figures out last week have shown. Speaking from a car factory in northern England, Sunak said the country needed to bring the number down to ‘more sustainable levels.’ High levels of legal migration have for more than…

SUNAK CANCELS MEETING WITH GREEK PM IN ROW OVER PARTHENON SCULPTURES The British Museum has always rejected returning the parts in its collection Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis accused his British counterpart Rishi Sunak of cancelling a scheduled meeting in London on today in a row over the status of the Parthenon Sculptures. Athens has repeatedly asked the British Museum to permanently return the 2,500-year-old sculptures that British diplomat Lord Elgin removed from the Parthenon temple in the early 19th century when he was ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. “I express my annoyance that the British Prime Minister cancelled our…

The penultimate global service in this Year of the Prolific Church will take airwaves on Sunday, December 3rd, 2023 and will commence at 3 pm GMT+1. The service will be broadcast live to a global congregation via Loveworld UK, all LoveWorld TV Networks,and on other ministry social media platforms. Ultimately God’s Word and direction for the month will be revealed to God’s people through the man of God, Pastor Chris.  Spread the news everywhere and prayerfully prepare your heart to receive God’s Word!

Rishi Sunak agreed to a series of measures with Suella Braverman to bring down migration to the UK, including raising the minimum salary threshold to £40,000, according to reports on Monday of a verbal pact with the former home secretary. While No 10 has denied any formal plan, Kemi Badenoch, the business secretary, hinted on Monday that the salary threshold could be increased anyway as part of “much, much tougher measures” being drawn up. Braverman, who was sacked by Sunak earlier this month, has repeatedly threatened to release documents showing he had agreed to policy demands on migration before she backed him to become…

RISING LIVING COSTS WEAKEN CONSUMER SENTIMENT DURING BLACK FRIDAY The anticipated UK spend for 2023 would be £5.6 bn Rising living costs pushed up by higher interest rates are weakening Britain’s consumer sentiment during the traditional year-end shopping season this year, said Jasmine Birtles, a British consumer industry expert, on Friday. The decision made by the Bank of England, the central bank of Britain, to raise interest rates to a decade-high to curb the persistently high inflation has resulted in suppressed economic activities. British consumers are now less willing to spend even when retailers have stepped up their promotional efforts…

U.S. tech giant Palantir has rejected concerns after the firm was awarded a contract worth hundreds of millions of pounds for a new NHS data platform. The NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP) will aim to make it easier for health and care organisations to work together and provide better services to patients. It was announced earlier this week that a group led by Palantir had secured the £330 million contract to provide the new shared software system. But concerns have been raised by MPs about how patient data will be used and Palantir’s involvement in the deal. Louis Mosley, Palantir’s…

Sometimes it is easy to be led by the scoreboard. This was a pulsating battle between two clubs energised by smart managerial appointments and there is a temptation to argue that the turning point came when Aston Villa somehow went in level at half-time, allowing Unai Emery to bend the game to his will with a double substitution that gave a previously rampant Tottenham Hotspur more questions to answer during the second half. It was proactive management from Emery, who was too cute to be fooled by Pau Torres hauling Villa level in the seventh minute of added time. Doing nothing would…

Polling from the UK’s largest anti-ULEZ and anti-fuel-tax group of motorists has shown that its membership is now more likely to vote Labour than Tory, for the first time in its history. The FairFuelUK cross-party pressure group, which has 1.7 million members across the UK, is currently dedicated to preventing what they perceive as unnecessary tax hikes stemming from a well-intentioned yet flawed ‘green’ agenda. The focus of the group, which is run by Howard Cox, now a candidate for the London mayoral elections next year, extends to opposing new taxes, city entry bans for drivers, and potential additional costs…

NISSAN TO INVEST £2BN IN SUNDERLAND ELECTRIC CAR PLANT – The Scheme could help preserve the jobs of about 6,000 workers Nissan and its partners have announced a £2bn plan to build three electric car models at its Sunderland factory. The Japanese firm will build electric Qashqai and Juke models at the plant alongside the next generation of the electric Leaf, which is already produced there. The scheme could help preserve the jobs of about 6,000 workers directly, and thousands more across the UK. Nissan said that alongside this, a major new battery plant known as a “gigafactory” will also…

BARCLAYS PLOTS 2,000 JOBS CUTS IN £1BN COST-CUTTING PLAN –  Redundancy plans likely to impact employees in legal, HR and compliance departments  Barclays is preparing to axe up to 2,000 jobs in a £1bn cost-cutting drive aimed at boosting the lender’s profits. The redundancy plans, which emerged on Thursday night, are likely to impact employees in departments such as legal, HR and compliance – rather than customer-facing branch staff or investment bankers. The shake-up will cement a push by Barclays chief executive CS Venkatakrishnan to strip costs from the business and satisfy City demands to boost its flagging share price.…