Furlough fury over super-rich who worth a total of £19 billion, but still demand taxpayer cash

The billionaire heirs to the Gucci fashion and Graff diamond fortunes are among the fabulously wealthy business owners whose companies have used the taxpayer-funded furlough scheme to pay their staff, a Mail on Sunday investigation can reveal. Our probe has uncovered how despite personal fortunes of hundreds of millions of pounds, some of Britain’s richest landowners … Read more

Taxpayer will foot the bill for Post Office IT fiasco predicted to run into ‘hundreds of millions’

Taxpayer will foot the bill for Post Office IT fiasco as payouts over the scandal are predicted to run into ‘hundreds of millions’ of pounds Between 1999 and 2015, hundreds of innocent postmasters were prosecuted  Accused of taking money that was due to Horizon computer terminal glitches In December a number of postmasters finally had … Read more

Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner charged taxpayer £249 for pair of PERSONALISED AirPods

Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner charged the taxpayer £249 for pair of PERSONALISED AirPods among £2,100 Apple gadgets she claimed on expenses to help her WFH in pandemic Angela Rayner claimed a pair of £249 personalised Apple AirPods on expenses  Also claimed £1,619 iPad, £99 case, £199 keyboard, £131 pencil, £70 office chair MPs claimed … Read more

Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner charged taxpayer £249 for pair of PERSONALISED AirPods

Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner charged the taxpayer £249 for pair of PERSONALISED AirPods among £2,100 Apple gadgets she claimed on expenses to help her WFH in pandemic Angela Rayner claimed a pair of £249 personalised Apple AirPods on expenses  Also claimed £1,619 iPad, £99 case, £199 keyboard, £131 pencil, £70 office chair MPs claimed … Read more

Cineworld bosses could get up to £208M in bonuses despite receiving taxpayer support

Cineworld bosses could get up to £208 MILLION in bonuses after shareholders approved ‘excessive’ payout scheme – despite firm receiving taxpayer support during lockdown Chief executive alone could receive up to £65million of the bonus money   Cinema company received taxpayer support through furlough during pandemic Bosses secured an extra £560million in November from independent lenders  … Read more

Axe falls on taxpayer subsidies to farmers: George Eustice to confirm that payments will be stopped

Government reveals plans to ‘revolutionise’ farming with payments to protect the environment, produce free-range goods and ‘restore the landscape’ replacing costly EU subsidies While currently farmers are paid subsidies for amount of land they own, new system will see incentives for implementing sustainable, eco-friendly measures This includes producing free-range products and improving farm animal welfare … Read more

Axe falls on taxpayer subsidies to farmers: George Eustice to confirm that payments will be stopped

Axe falls on taxpayer subsidies to farmers: George Eustice is to confirm that payments will be stopped in post-Brexit shake-up of agriculture Environment Secretary George Eustice will give details on the cuts today  The subsidies will be cut from next year and gone altogether by 2028   The National Farmers’ Union warned last night that it … Read more

Taxpayer faces £40bn bill as cost of emergency loan schemes soar

Billions being lost in Covid business loans fraud: Taxpayer faces £40bn bill as cost of emergency schemes soar By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:55 GMT, 25 November 2020 | Updated: 21:55 GMT, 25 November 2020 The taxpayer could be saddled with a £40billion bill as thousands of loans handed out under emergency … Read more

London firm is paid up to £7,000 A DAY by taxpayer to run failing NHS Test and Trace

Alastair Flanagan’s journey to work takes him from a rambling farmhouse near the Chiltern Hills to a state-of-the-art office block overlooking a garden square in London’s Marylebone. The striking building is UK headquarters of the Boston Consulting Group, one of the world’s most prestigious — not to mention expensive — management consultancy firms. Flanagan is … Read more

Asylum seekers’ taxi rides to hotels and detention centres are costing the taxpayer millions

Revealed: Asylum seekers’ taxi rides to hotels and detention centres are costing the taxpayer millions Asylum seekers are being driven in taxis from airports to hotels or interviews Clearsprings Ready Homes is awarded £1.1billion Home Office contract over 10 years  The private company houses migrants in south of England and Wales It has paid one … Read more