Burnham to force employers to publish salaries on job ads in latest government ‘small fix’ – UK politics live

Prime minister said his government would bring in legal requirement for companies to say what they pay when listing new jobs

An energy minister has told the bosses of Great Britain’s biggest energy suppliers to do more to help households get on top of their unpaid energy bills this winter, before the government spends almost £2.5bn to help write off the country’s record high debts.

Energy bosses were summoned to a roundtable meeting on Thursday to discuss the government’s plan to pay down the energy debts of about 2.4m of the hardest-hit households.

I haven’t taken any options off the table. I’m also not going in with a fixed mind about what the right clarifications of the law might be.

It’s important to get the right balance between religious expression in this country, which is something that many of us of a faith, including myself, hold very dearly, but do so in a way that is within what we expect of our citizens for the purposes of the criminal law.