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6 LondraGazete.com/English Londra Gazete, 23 June 2022

David Lammy under Grant Shapps hits out at unions

investigation for financial as rail strike cause chaos

interest breach THOUSANDS of staff at Net-

Stone who has been looking at work Rail, Great Northern,
possible breaches in the areas of Thameslink and rail companies
earnings, gifts and foreign travel. across the country are due to
The MP for Tottenham's finan- walk out on Thursday and Satur-
cial register included a speech in day - following a day of action on
the US on the invasion of Ukraine. Tuesday - with services affected
It also noted he received £3,280 from Monday evening and dis-
from the Canary Wharf Group for ruption continuing on non-strike
a speech and question-and-answer days this week.
session on 1 December, but it was Just 20 per cent of trains are
not registered until 27 May. understood to be running during
strikes and passengers are being
A spokesperson for Mr Lammy
said: "David Lammy takes his dec- advised to avoid all but essential
travel.
LABOUR'S shadow foreign sec- laration responsibilities seriously The RMT is striking over what
retary David Lammy is under in- and as soon as this was brought to it calls ‘an aggressive agenda’ of
vestigation for allegedly breaking his attention he wrote to Registrar cuts to jobs, conditions, pay and
rules for declaring financial inter- of Members' Financial Interests to pensions, with Mick Lynch, sec- a camouflage for the fact they've es and, rather than protecting
ests. apologise for the administrative retary general of the RMT un- walked out of the talks that they your jobs, they are actually en-
The Parliamentary Standards errors in his office which led to ion, claiming the government did should be in with their employ- dangering them and the railway's
probe is looking at possible breach- late declarations in December last not allow employers to negotiate ers,” he said. He also claimed future.”
es to the MPs' code of conduct. year. freely in their attempts to secure that workers were striking un- In an effort to ease the impact
MP’s must register changes to "He has assured the registrar a 7 per cent pay increase. der ‘false pretences’, adding: “It's of the strikes, Mr Shapps con-
their financial interests within 28 that he has put revised systems Transport secretary Grant about outdated unions opposing firmed he would change the law
days, but Mr Lammy's financial in place so that declarations are Shapps claimed calls for him to progress, progress that will se- in the next two months to allow
register contained interests re- made in a timely manner." come to the negotiating table as cure the future of the railway. workers with transferable skills
corded after that period. The shadow foreign secretary a ‘stunt’. “Your union bosses have got to fill roles left by striking work-
Lammy apologised and said he joins Labour leader Sir Keir Starm- “The reality is they're using it as you striking under false pretenc- ers.
had put "revised systems in place". er in being investigated by the
The investigation was opened watchdog, who has also is said to
on Wednesday by Parliamentary have registered gifts after the 28
Ministers relax airport slot rules
Standards commissioner Kathryn day period.

Brexit will hit workers’ real to help avoid cancellations

wages by nearly £500-a-year confident they will be able to op-

erate for the rest of the summer
BREXIT will hit workers’ real wag- The report said Britain has expe- season.
es by nearly £500-a-year and damage rienced a decline of eight per cent in "This will help passengers find
Britain’s competitiveness, according trade openness - trade as a share of alternative arrangements ahead
to a new report on Wednesday. economic output - since 2019, losing of time, rather than face the kind
The Resolution Foundation report, market share across three of its larg- of last-minute cancellations seen
in collaboration with the London est non-EU goods import markets in over the Easter and half-term
School of Economics, said the im- 2021, the US, Canada and Japan. holidays," a spokesperson said.
mediate impact of the referendum The full effect of the Trade and It represents something of a
result has been clear, with a “depreci- Cooperation Agreement will take U-turn for the government after
ation-driven inflation spike” increas- years to be felt but the move towards it had demanded airlines put on
ing the cost of living for households, a more closed economy, say the au- full flight schedules, previous-
and seeing business investment fall- thors, will make the UK less compet- ly saying that airlines had to fly
ing. itive, which will reduce productivity 70% of their flight slots at air-
The UK has not seen a large rela- and real wages, it was predicted. ports or lose them.
tive decline in its exports to the EU The report added that the North THE Department for Trans- ages. Airlines buy slots to operate
that many predicted, although im- East, an area which voted signifi- port (DfT) has temporarily re- It said airlines will be given a their schedules but can lose them
ports from the EU have fallen more cantly for Leave, is expected to be hit laxed rules around airport slots short window, described as an to rivals if they fail to maintain
swiftly than those from the rest of hardest by Brexit as its firms are par- to help airlines avoid last-minute "amnesty", to hand back take-off their obligations to the airport
the world, the study suggested. ticularly reliant on exports to the EU. cancellations due to staff short- and landing slots they are not and passengers by failing to fly.

Ofgem blamed as supplier failures lead to higher energy bills

ENERGY watchdog Ofgem has been was vulnerable to large shocks. The takes of those charged with protecting
accused of allowing an industry to de- regulator said it was already address- them. It's unacceptable." The result of
velop on "shaky foundations" in which ing the issues raised. Meg Hillier, who last year's shock was that 2.4 million
a series of supply companies collapsed. chairs the Public Accounts Committee, customers were automatically moved
All billpayers will pay £94 more a year said: "Ofgem's approach created an to a rival company when their own
each to cover the £2.7bn cost of the energy market built on shaky foun- supplier collapsed. Typically, according
failure of 28 suppliers which folded dations. As a result, many companies to Citizens Advice, they had to pay an
after wholesale prices soared. The Na- simply collapsed under the shock of extra £30 a month for the duration of
tional Audit Office (NAO) said Ofgem energy price increases. "Once again, it's their original contract, as they were
had allowed a market to develop that the public who has to pay for the mis- shifted to a more expensive tariff.