UK Treasury chief shows no sign of turning off spending taps
The comments came amid reports that Sunak may announce a pay freeze for government workers when he delivers his annual spending review to Parliament on Wednesday. That triggered questions about whether he was preparing to clamp down on spending and raise taxes amid forecasts that government borrowing will reach 372 billion pounds this fiscal year. “It’s real, it’s not just numbers of a chart, it’s people’s lives, it’s their livelihoods, their security that’s being impacted. The matter is even more fraught now, as public sector workers, including nurses, firefighters and care workers, bore the brunt of tackling COVID-19. “So there is an enormous amount of uncertainty at the moment and it wouldn’t be right to make long-term decisions right now.”
Police: Driver in missing toddler case says child sold for $10,000
Johnson told detectives he tried calling the driver's cellphone multiple times but she never picked up, so he called 911 around 5 p.m. Police arrested driver Sharena Nancy, 25, in the vehicle during a traffic stop around 7:30 p.m. According to the complaint, Nancy told detectives that Johnson sold the child to an individual for $10,000 and asked her to complete the dropoff. Nancy said she was told the woman would then "flag" her down and Nancy was to turn over the toddler, the complaint says. Nancy told police she also saw a second woman inside the SUV.
1964: Law and order, "Mississippi-style"
1964: Law and order, "Mississippi-style" In an interview conducted during the 1964 Freedom Summer Project, Miss. Paul Johnson decried participants in the voter registration effort as "professional agitators" and "weirdos" who were misleading people of "good intentions," while law enforcement steeled themselves for the influx of volunteers seeking to register blacks to vote.
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