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Support staff at No 10 and the Cabinet Office have been subjected to bullying and harassment for years, according to a union member in Whitehall. The claim comes after Sue Gray’s report into the Partygate scandal disclosed that cleaners and security guards have been subjected to a “lack of respect and poor treatment”, and yet felt “unable to raise [this] properly” with the authorities. A member of the Public and Commercial Service (PCS) union working in the Cabinet Office said: “The prime minister’s apology is too little, too late. There’s been a culture of bullying, harassment and sexism in No 10 for…

WASHINGTON—Facebook parent Meta said it will start publicly providing more details about how advertisers target people with political ads just months ahead of the U.S. midterm elections. The announcement follows years of criticism that the social media platforms withhold too much information about how campaigns, special interest groups and politicians use the platform to target small pockets of people with polarizing, divisive or misleading messages. Meta, which also owns Instagram, said it will start releasing details in July about the demographics and interests of audiences who are targeted with ads that run on its two primary social networks. The company will also share…

Rishi Sunak is reportedly considering imposing a wider windfall tax on electricity generators, as well as on oil and gas producers, that could bring in billions of pounds to help households struggling with soaring food and energy costs. The chancellor has instructed Treasury officials to work on plans for a potential tax on more than £10bn of excess profits made by electricity generators, including renewable energy operators such as windfarms, according to sources cited by the Financial Times. That would go far beyond Labour’s plan for a one-off levy applied only to North Sea oil and gas producers, which would raise an…

The water company Severn Trent has launched a £30m financial support package to help a further 100,000 of its customers, as it warns that the cost of living crisis means more people are struggling to pay their water bill. The Coventry-headquartered company supplies more than 8 million customers across a region stretching from the Bristol Channel to the Humber, and from mid-Wales to the east Midlands, and said it has the second-lowest water bills in England at £389 a year. The company already supported about 215,000 of its customers with their water bill through a social tariff, allowing them to reduce it by up…

The £4.25bn takeover of Chelsea football club has been completed after Roman Abramovich agreed to the UK government’s terms for the sale, ending a tumultuous period that raised fears over the club’s existence. Nadine Dorries, the culture secretary, said the UK government issued a licence on Tuesday night that permits the sale of Chelsea. A new era at Stamford Bridge can officially begin after a bid led by Todd Boehly, a part-owner of baseball’s LA Dodgers, was given permission to go through. The government issued the licence after it said it was “now satisfied that the full proceeds of the sale will not benefit…

The first Elizabeth line trains to carry passengers through the new tunnels under London departed on time on Tuesday morning, marking the start of an era of greater speed, space and comfort – “fit for a Queen, and Londoners”, the mayor, Sadiq Khan, said. Hundreds of people braved the rain to queue outside for the first train from Paddington through central London on the line originally known as Crossrail – finally ready for service a week before the Queen’s platinum jubilee celebrations. Cheers greeted the opening of the gates at 6.18am as Khan and the TfL commissioner, Andy Byford, at the head of the queue, stepped…

Washington, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine on Monday filed a lawsuit against Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for allegedly failing to secure millions of users’ data during the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal. The 37-page filing (pdf) accuses Facebook, now known as Meta Platforms, of violating the district’s Consumer Protection Procedures Act by misleading users about how their data will be used and inappropriately sharing information with Cambridge Analytica, a now-defunct British political consulting firm once hired by former President Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign team. “Facebook looked into Cambridge Analytica and determined that it posed a risk to consumer data but chose to bury…

Robert Snow, a pilot for American Airlines, one of the top 3 largest airlines in the country, has 31 years of commercial airline experience and additionally seven years of experience as a U.S. Air Force pilot. Snow says that he might not be able to fly again after he suffered a cardiac arrest only 6 or 7 minutes after landing a plane he piloted from Denver to Dallas Fort Worth (DFW). He still had two more flights scheduled on April 9. He believes that his cardiac arrest is connected to the Johnson and Johnson COVID vaccine he was forced to take in order…

Boris Johnson is under increasing pressure to explain a meeting with Sue Gray before her report into lockdown breaches in Downing Street, after a cabinet minister declined to deny he had queried whether it should be published. The report, which is expected to be handed to No 10 on Wednesday, is said by sources to be deeply critical of the prime minister and senior civil service leadership over the culture that developed in No 10 and eventually led the Metropolitan police to issue 126 fines. Further pressure was heaped on Johnson on Monday night after a photo was released showing…

The new photos from the Partygate saga have left police facing questions about the credibility of their investigation and a former police chief demanding that they explain themselves urgently. Last week, the Metropolitan police ended its investigation into a string of Downing Street and Whitehall parties having issued Boris Johnson with only one fine. Westminster insiders say the prime minister had been a willing participant at several social gatherings that breached lockdown rules, yet the police decision appeared to suggest he had broken no rules. The former Met police deputy assistant commissioner Brian Paddick said public confidence in the Met was being…