2023-07-21
Financial Times Front Page 21st of July 2023
The Financial Times shares news of a significant setback to UK’s renewable energy efforts as surging costs halt one of the country’s largest offshore wind farm projects.
The Financial Times shares news of a significant setback to UK’s renewable energy efforts as surging costs halt one of the country’s largest offshore wind farm projects.
Metro reports on counter-protesters stopping Just Stop Oil activists by forming a human chain around them.
The Times brings news of banks potentially losing their licences if they close accounts based on disagreements with a customer’s political beliefs.
The Daily Mirror reports a grieving mother’s plea to the prime minister for immediate action on knife crime following her son’s online-sword murder.
The Daily Mail shares government plans for an emergency law to protect account holders with “anti-woke views” from bank “cancellations”.
The Guardian anticipates the Conservatives are preparing for “painful results” in the forthcoming three by-elections.
The Daily Express reports Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s call to retailers to promptly pass on lower prices to consumers, following the decrease in inflation.
The i paper suggests that economists now foresee a Bank of England interest rate hike to 5.25% next month, in response to the new inflation figures.