There’s not been any indication the Bank Rate would go negative, however financial experts have speculated about the possibility following the coronavirus pandemic. In August last year, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said there were not any plans to deploy negative interest rates in the coming months.
The UK has made an offer of safe haven to Myanmar’s former ambassador who was ousted when junta loyalists barred him from the embassy in London.
Boris Johnson is poised to announce some Easter Monday good news, with home and away lockdown-easing moves as part of his COVID roadmap to freedom.
“Stay local” measures have been lifted in Wales – meaning there are no travel restrictions within the country for the first time since December.
The EU said on Wednesday (17 March) it is prepared to tighten COVID vaccine exports to vaccine-producing countries or those with higher vaccination rates if they do not comply with its plea for “openness and reciprocity”, in a move seen as a veiled threat to the UK, one of the key vaccine manufacturing countries.
Britain is prepared to launch nuclear weapons if the country was faced with an exceptionally destructive attack using cyber or other “emerging technologies”, according to the integrated defence review.
Britain will help shape a new global order and leave behind an “outdated” international system which no longer serves the country’s interests, Boris Johnson’s government has declared ahead of the integrated review of defence, security, and foreign policies.
The EU launched legal proceedings against Britain on Monday (15 March), alleging that London had broken a protocol of its Brexit divorce agreement covering Ireland.
The coronavirus vaccines deployed in the UK could cut transmission of Covid-19 by as much as half, a major new study suggests. As well as being effective in providing high levels of protection, both the Pfizer and Oxford jabs appear to be capable of minimising the spread of coronavirus in people who have received two full doses. The findings come from a study […]
A “national day of reflection” will be held to mark the first anniversary of Britain going into lockdown and in remembrance of the 125,000 people who have died during the coronavirus pandemic.
