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We have our final two candidates for the next Tory party leader - former Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss. They’ve managed to make it through five rounds of voting, fending off six other official nominees. But, the hardest part of the race has only just begun. They have hustings to face, TV debates and it’s a while yet until the outcome is known on 5th September. The Evening...

Another bleak chapter in the cost of living crisis, inflation has reached a 40-year high at 9.4%. Simon Clarke, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, says the Government and the Bank of England are focused on tackling this issue and we should see a ‘marked improvement’ by next year. But is it enough?  Those on low and middle incomes are already feeling it and many are struggling to make ends meet....

Another record breaking day for UK temperatures, at the time of recording the Met Office says London Heathrow reported a temperature of 40.2°C - and there’s still time for that to be beaten. During the extreme heatwave, roads have melted, train lines have buckled and there’s been a big dip in productivity across the country. It’s got many wondering that with the hot weather set to become a more re...

Hotter than the Sahara. The Met Office has given the UK’s first red extreme heat warning and the UK Health Security Agency has issued a level 4 heat-health alert - both running from Monday to Wednesday.  It’s officially ‘too hot’ and our city isn’t exactly made for this weather… but it might be about time we have to start looking at changing that.  Ross Lydall, the Evening Standard’s Cit...

Bonus content taken from our How to be a CEO podcast : William Reeve knows a thing or two about how to sell a successful start-up. His first, Fletcher Research, was bought for around £20m in 1999. He followed that up in 2011 with a reported £200m sale of LoveFilm to Amazon. Since then he’s worked with household names like Secret Escapes and PaddyPower, helping to develop their businesses. Now he’s...

The final five candidates to become our new Prime Minister are to take part in two TV debates this weekend. Kemi Badenoch , Penny Mordaunt , Rishi Sunak , Liz Truss and Tom Tugendhat will go before the cameras tonight and on Sunday night, before the next round of voting on Monday, and Tuesday. Then the final three candidates will take part in a third TV debate on Tuesday night. It’s the first oppo...

Emirates has today rejected Heathrow’s order to stop selling some plane tickets , to comply with its to 100,000-a-day cap on passenger numbers. The airline issued a statement accusing Heathrow of showing “blatant disregard for consumers” by attempting to force carriers to “deny seats to tens of thousands of travellers”. In response Heathrow said it had asked airlines to “help come up with a plan t...

As the UK’s heading for what could be a record heatwave , UK government officials have declared the first ever national heatwave emergency in England. Temperatures are set to soar above 30 degrees celsius between Sunday and Tuesday prompting a Met Office ‘Amber Alert' , warning that exceptionally high temperatures “could lead to widespread impacts on people and infrastructure.” It’s the latest rem...

Thirty years after being illegally trafficked into the UK under the wrong name, Sir Mo Farah has finally revealed the story of how he came to the country . In a BBC documentary the four-time Olympic gold winner revealed that he was trafficked from his home in east Africa to the UK at just nine years old and forced to work as a domestic servant. He explains how he confided in his PE teacher, who he...

A total of eleven Conservative MPs have officially launched campaigns to replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister. In various campaign videos from the likes of Tom Tugendhat, Sajid Javid, Suella Braverman, and Rishi Sunak we have seen promises around tax cuts, delivering Brexit and tackling immigration. On Monday Environment Secretary George Eustice said he expected the number of candidates to be w...

Euan Blair’s company Multiverse, which offers apprenticeships as an alternative to University, has been valued at $875 million. The son of former PM Tony Blair has built an enormous, multinational, firm that’s disrupting how companies like Morgan Stanley and Microsoft are finding, and keeping, the best staff.  To listen to the full episode click here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy fo...

The Queen’s had a working relationship with 14 prime ministers during her 70-year reign, beginning with Sir Winston Churchill from 1952 to 1955. Now, this week as the Downing Street psychodrama unfolded, the monarch and her staff will have keenly followed developments. After all, our monarchy remains woven into matters of state happening just down the road from Buckingham Palace in Whitehall and t...

After more than 50 MPs’ resigned in a painful 24 hours for Boris Johnson, he’s going, going...gone. At about 12.30pm, the ominous Downing Street lectern was carried out into the road, for a speech marking the end of two years and 348 days since Johnson became resident of Britain’s most famous address - the same as Neville Chamberlain. And while his innings weren’t as long as Theresa May or David C...

The Prime Minister’s nightmare day started with more resignations following the shock news that chancellor Rishi Sunak and health secretary Sajid Javid had quit. Nadhim Zahawi, the former education secretary, was parachuted in to the chancellor’s role at number 11 Downing Street, and was promptly dispatched to defend the Johnson administration on breakfast news. As the Chris Pincher groping scanda...

An estimated 117,000 people have died while on NHS waiting lists as the devastating knock-on effect of Covid-19’s many waves on hospitals is revealed. Now the treatment backlog stands at 6.5 million people, as coronavirus rates spike and the health service struggles with staffing problems. It came as Wes Streeting, Labour MP for Ilford North and shadow health secretary, returned to Hampstead’s Roy...

The entire 38th floor of the City’s ‘Cheesegrater’ skyscraper is set to be turned into an escape room game for stressed office workers to blow off steam. The building’s owner, CC Land, says the idea is for co-workers to better collaborate and “have fun” together as they compete to win Crystal Maze-style tasks.  Meanwhile at 22 Bishopsgate, the Square Mile’s newest tower, bosses are offering “...

This is a bonus episode with Sarah Friar, CEO of Nextdoor. Sarah told the Evening Standard's How to be a CEO podcast us about the challenges of building a multinational company whose entire purpose is keeping things local.  To listen to the full episode click here. For all the latest business news, features and analysis go to standard.co.uk/business .  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv...

After a two year hiatus, Pride is back for 2022. It’s just in time to mark a monumental milestone - 50 years since the first-ever Pride march took place in London. We hear from Peter Tatchell, one of the organisers of the original march as well as Stuart Feather, both activists and then members of the newly-formed Gay Liberation Front. Britain’s first movement of openly lesbian, gay, bisexual and...

A typical London home now costs nearly ten times the average local income, as surging house prices reduce affordability to the lowest level on record. It comes as the latest figures from Nationwide Building Society show the capital’s house price growth has slowed from 7.4 per cent to 6 per cent. But with hybrid working and the Covid-era race-for-space still driving many people’s property decisions...

The Metropolitan Police has been handcuffed into ‘special measures’ by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary after a series of damaging scandals and “systemic failings” in the force’s work. It means the Met will now be under intense administrative scrutiny by the watchdog. The announcement follows outrage over awful incidents that included the rape and murder of Sarah Everard shattering publi...

Have you noticed chocolate bars getting smaller, crisps bags pumped with air to bulk them out and then you get the corporate cold shoulder when you try to complain? You’re a victim of skimpflation. Economists class skimpflation as unlike regular inflation where you pay more for the same good and services, but instead you pay the same for something that’s worse quality or wait longer for it. So tha...

Behind the Alpine glad-handing at this year’s G7 summit is an agenda packed with discussion points focussing on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Leaders of the world’s seven wealthiest nations will look to reach consensus on how to deal with the war’s impact on global food and energy supply, all with the spectre of Covid’s re-emergence looming large. At Schloss Elmau, in the Bavarian Alps, Ukrainian...

This Morning presenter, and former Saturdays singer, Rochelle Humes launched her baby hair and skincare business 'My Little Coco' just as the Covid-19 pandemic swept the world. We talk to Rochelle about: Why entering business was harder than breaking into showbiz The learning curve she faced, including an early challenge by Chanel over the word "Coco" Why she partnered with Boots to get her produc...

As crime documentaries and public court cases are growing in popularity, we speak with one of the most respected US attorneys, David S Rudolf , about why that is. David is best known for his work defending American Michael Peterson, who was charged with murdering his wife Kathleen at their home in North Carolina back in 2001. The case, and subsequent appeals were eventually shared in the Netflix d...

For the first time since 1984 polio has been found to be spreading in the UK, after being detected at a sewage works in London on three separate occasions this year. As a result Londoners have been urged to make sure that babies and children are fully vaccinated against polio. It is a rare disabling and life-threatening disease caused by the poliovirus.  Jane Clegg, Chief nurse for the NHS in...