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Lawyers criticise what they consider inconsistencies in the handling of individual foreign nationals’ casesThe UK government scheme allowing EU citizens to remain post-Brexit is in danger of being upended, legal experts have warned, after a series of conflicting court rulings over social welfare payments to French and Slovenian citizens and the relative of a Spanish woman living in Britain.In May, one county court judge found against Islington council which had rescinded a Slovenian software engineers’s right to emergency housing after he lost work during the pandemic. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/25/uk-post-brexit-scheme-eu-citizens-courts Author : Lisa O'Carroll Brexit correspondent Publish date

Former president and current vice-president are discussing appearing together on the campaign trail, sources sayUS politics – live updatesBarack Obama is on the verge of publicly endorsing Kamala Harris as the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, after the pair spoke several times on the phone in recent days, according to NBC News.The former president has privately expressed his support for Harris’s candidacy and plans to endorse her soon, with talks underway about the pair appearing together on the campaign trail, the TV network reported, citing several unnamed people familiar with the discussions. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/25/obama-kamala-harris-endorsement Author :

Production at Woodsmith site near Whitby set back to 2030 as firm plans to pause work during overhaul Business live – latest updatesAnglo American has taken a further $1.6bn (£1.2bn) writedown on its fertiliser mine in North Yorkshire after setting out plans to pause work on the project while it undertakes a sweeping overhaul of the business.Anglo plans to slash its investment in the Woodsmith fertiliser mine – in the North York Moors national park, near Whitby – next year from £1bn annually to £200m, before seeking strategic investors to restart full-scale work on the polyhalite project from 2026. Continue

Owner of Marmite, Dove and Ben & Jerry’s says margins of 19.6% were helped by ‘carry-over pricing’Unilever has defended on-going price rises despite a better-than-expected 17% rise in profits.The owner of Marmite, Dove and Ben & Jerry’s said its profit margins had been helped by “carry-over pricing from a period of higher inflation”, as well as efficiency benefits from selling more products and more premium brands. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jul/25/unilever-shares-jump-defends-price-rises-profits Author : Sarah Butler Publish date : 2024-07-25 12:22:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.