While shareholders own a company, it’s the executive team and board who hold the day-to-day power. They decide what dividends to pay, what strategy to follow and how to shape the company’s ethos. But for a brief window every year, shareholders are
Last year actor Laurence Fox announced he was setting up his own political party, Reclaim UK. Criticising the stature of current serving politicians he said he wanted to “reclaim” British values which were being diluted by toxic culture wars. A critic of
Professor John Curtice has crunched the latest polling numbers ahead of the Holyrood vote on May 6 and suggested the SNP could miss out on a majority. The party has vowed to hold a second independence referendum, seven years after the failed 2014
Alyn Smith, the SNP’s foreign affairs spokesperson, claimed if Scotland votes to separate itself from the UK and rejoin the EU, it would be up to the Scottish public to decide whether they would adopt the euro. When asked whether Scotland would
With polling day just one week away, the leading parties are ramping up their campaigns. Ms Sturgeon has so far dominated the campaign with her demand for a second independence referendum and hopes her party will secure a majority – having failed
The DUP smoothed Mr Johnson’s path to Downing Street by outright rejecting former PM Theresa May’s Brexit deal. Critics have said she frittered away unprecedented levels of goodwill and made grave strategic errors over Brexit. Deirdre Heenan, a social policy professor at
Furious animal activists demand shark nets be scrapped along Australia’s coast as dolphins, stringrays and even turtles get trapped WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT New South Wales councils are calling for shark nets to be scrapped in beaches Animal rights groups say the nets
MEPS voted on whether to approve the EU-UK agreement, that was struck on Christmas Eve last year, last night. The result is due to be announced at 8am GMT today. Although MEPs have yet to formally ratify the deal, officials agreed to
Douglas Ross – Scottish Conservatives Douglas Ross was asked about what Boris Johnson allegedly said about lockdown in England. Mr Ross said the comments “were unacceptable and I would never support them, but he said they did not make them.” Mr Ross
Brexit: EU ‘damaged trust’ in UK negotiations says MEP Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen was leading the charge to hit the UK with sanctions as she attempted to build support amongst MEPs for the future relationship agreement. And France also joined