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Ministers consider bringing e-cigarette laws in line with tobacco as data shows 20% of teenagers have tried vapingVapes could be sold in plain packaging as part of a range of proposals to stop them being marketed to children.The UK-wide plans also include limiting device colours to white, black or grey, and keeping vapes out of sight in shops, according to the Department of Health and Social Care. Continue reading...

Cross-party group backs call last month from science and technology committee to look at alternative optionsA second parliamentary committee has urged Labour to scrap Palantir’s £330m contract with the NHS, increasing pressure on the next prime minister over government deals with the controversial US tech company.MPs on the health and social care select committee want the NHS to cut ties with Palantir and find a replacement for its system, which is supposed to unify and analyse huge am

Business secretary Peter Kyle says asset managers should feel a patriotic duty to make the UK a successBusiness live – latest updatesThe business secretary, Peter Kyle, has warned UK pension funds to “get off their high horses” and invest in Britain or be forced to do so by law.Expressing frustration at the level of investment in British companies after years of government initiatives, Kyle said the UK’s biggest asset managers “should feel a patriotic duty in making Britain a success”.

Ministério Público do Ceará denuncia três homens pelo envio de artefato explosivo disfarçado em embalagem de presente para familiar de dirigente do Ceará Sporting Club.

O Ministério das Relações Exteriores mapeou 43 empresas e associações comerciais americanas que pedem que produtos brasileirios não sejam tarifados com base na investigação aberta feita pelo governo de Donald Trump. Os pedidos foram apresentados sob o argumento de que não há substitutos produzidos no mercado doméstico para esses produtos. As entidades também alertaram que a aplicação das tarifas elevaria os custos para consumidores americanos e para indústrias dos Estados U

Ministers also considering licence requirement and regulator to try to cut bills and increase choice UK vets may have to have a licence and cap prescriptions for pet medicine at £21 under plans being considered by the government.Ministers are also considering establishing a regulator for the veterinary sector, including inspections, a mandatory licensing system and published compliance reports to improve accountability and choice. Every vet practice could need an official operating lic

Ethics and integrity commission chief says overhaul is crucial to help restore trust in standardsAll lobbying of government ministers, aides and senior officials should be publicly declared – from WhatsApp chats to party conference meetings – in a fundamental shake-up of transparency laws, the government’s ethics watchdog has said.A review led by Doug Chalmers, the head of the ethics and integrity commission, has called for a new register to highlight who is lobbying, which policies th

Exclusive: The details behind the financial transactions that bankers have flagged up to the National Crime AgencyThe rise in public support for Reform UK – and Nigel Farage’s own prediction that he expects to be the UK’s next prime minister – has put the party and its leader in unfamiliar territory.Their policies and candidates are coming under greater scrutiny, and now, so is their funding. Continue reading...

How to hit the 3.5% of GDP spending promise made to Nato would be a matter for the next prime minister, MPs toldThe Treasury has as yet carried out no analysis of the trade-offs necessary for the UK to hit the 3.5% of GDP defence spending promise made to Nato, the department’s chief secretary has said.Under robust questioning in a joint session of the Treasury and defence committees on Wednesday, Lucy Rigby repeatedly said funding additional defence spending would be a matter for “the

O Ministério da Agricultura e Pecuária (Mapa) argumenta que cabe ao setor produtivo, em grande medida, a criação de mecanismos para atender às exigências da União Europeia contra o uso de antimicrobianos na pecuária. No início de junho, a União Europeia oficializou a retirada o Brasil da lista de países considerados aptos a cumprir as regras do bloco para o controle do uso de antimicrobianos na produção animal. Com isso, o país ficará impedido de exportar carnes ao mercado eur

His byelection stunt shows he is clearly rattled by a perilous position. Wildcards rarely endure: his future is behind himBritain’s politics was never so weird. First, the people of Makerfield choose who should be the new prime minister. Now the people of Clacton are to confirm the man who is currently his most popular challenger. Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is still running ahead of all other parties, and he is ahead of all other current leaders. It would be foolish to underestimate him.

There are far better ways to tackle climate breakdown, but successive governments have chosen to listen to the fossil fuel companies insteadThe new prime minister will be looking for money? Well, here’s £21.7bn lying on the ground. The government could cancel its deranged, disastrous carbon capture and storage (CCS) programme at no cost to public welfare: in fact, it would greatly reduce the harm we will suffer.Sorry, did I say £21.7bn? That’s the figure the government has been putting