Grant Shapps

Inheritance tax is “punitive” and “deeply unfair”, a Cabinet minister has said amid speculation Rishi Sunak is considering a cut to death duties.Downing Street sought to play down…
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Security engineer David Grier shares a jovial moment with the local butcher on his break from Britain’s flagship nuclear power plant Hinkley Point C, situated on the low-lying muddy…
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Funding defence companies should count as ethical investment because military spending “helps prevent war”, the Defence Secretary has said.Defence companies have long been excluded from…
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The Prime Minister is expected in Aberdeenshire on Monday, where he will reportedly announce millions of pounds in funding for the Acorn carbon capture project, a joint venture between…
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Energy Security Secretary Grant Shapps has revealed how he and his family have struggled to open accounts at major banks in the wake of the Nigel Farage row.The senior Cabinet minister…
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Ministers have urged banks to learn from the mistakes of NatWest in the wake of chief executive Dame Alison Rose’s resignation in a row over the closure of Nigel Farage’s Coutts…
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The Government has promised grants of up to £157 million to several nuclear technology projects across the UK as it launched a separate competition for businesses to develop new nuclear…
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Major campaign groups have joined forces to condemn the continued burning of wood from forests and energy crops in UK power stations.Campaigners from Greenpeace, WWF, the RSPB, Wildlife…
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Hard-pressed householders will not have to pay more on their energy bills to fund production of hydrogen, Grant Shapps has indicated.An annual levy was expected to be introduced in…
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Union leaders have attacked the Government’s role in industrial disputes ahead of the anniversary of the first strike by railway workers, which has led to an unprecedented wave of…
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