Ben Gartside
Reporter at The Telegraph
Senior Reporter @theipaper | Previously @Telebusiness. Email me: [email protected].
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1 week ago |
inews.co.uk | Ben Gartside
Elon Musk’s Tesla is pushing the UK Government to overhaul a £2bn green energy scheme to allow the electric car company access to the lucrative carbon credit market, The i Paper can reveal. Lobbyists for Tesla met senior civil servants in the first few months of Labour’s new Government, according to Freedom of Information documents.
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2 weeks ago |
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2 weeks ago |
inews.co.uk | Ben Gartside
Elon Musk’s Tesla met with senior civil servants several times to push the Government to fast-track its self-driving cars, The i Paper can reveal. Lobbyists for Elon Musk’s electric car company met with Department for Transport officials five times between August and October last year, with the first meeting taking place less than a month after Labour’s election victory.
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4 weeks ago |
inews.co.uk | Ben Gartside
Sir Tony Blair’s consultancy has expanded its lucrative work with oil-rich Saudi Arabia in recent months, The i Paper can reveal. The disclosure comes after the former prime minister caused a political storm last week after calling for a reset of net-zero policies, claiming that limiting fossil fuels is “doomed to fail” .
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1 month ago |
inews.co.uk | Ben Gartside
Dozens of council workers across Britain have been paid for multiple full-time jobs they held in local authorities at the same time, The i Paper can reveal. According to Freedom of Information responses and other public records, nine councils have identified at least 37 cases of so-called “polygamous working” since the pandemic. In one case, a council employee working in London seemingly held up to four local authority jobs at once, although the nature of the roles hasn’t been disclosed.
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Great thread by Jon. If you want to know what’s wrong with the planning system, look below. Council taken to court by motoring activists and lose because they had only provided a 12 page rebuttal letter to their concerns on an LTN scheme.
Having read the full ruling on the West Dulwich LTN scheme, there's a lot to unpack... doing my best in the thread below for people who want to understand it... https://t.co/sCJ8NiKR37
Somewhere right now a guy is trying to explain why he thought he could insider trade the new pope
Which cardinal is putting money down right now? https://t.co/bDaa5bidM3
RT @BenGartside: Excl: At least 37 suspected cases of local government staff members working multiple full-time jobs at once have been iden…