British Gas owner Centrica has posted operating profits of £1.34 billion in the six months to the end of June, an increase of five-fold on the same period in 2021.
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- Labour backbencher Jess Phillips has said she may consider running for the party leadership if Jeremy Corbyn stands down.
- Breaking: Cambridge University has become the first UK institution to announce it is moving all lectures online until summer 2021
- Home Secretary Priti Patel has said it is "right" that people should speak English before moving to work in the UK
- Police officers have used a controversial tactic to halt a stolen motorbike which refused to stop for police, by ramming it with a car.
- “You’re stopping someone from getting to hospital… why the hell do you think this is the right thing to do?” Furious motorists clash with eco-mob Insulate Britain who have blocked access to the M25 again. Read more: l-bc.co/3u1CQwP00:00
- Home Secretary Priti Patel has criticised London Mayor Sadiq Khan's visit to a legalised cannabis farm in Los Angeles, saying his time would be "better spent focusing on knife and drug crime in London".
- Labour MP Dawn Butler has been asked to leave the House of Commons for the remainder of the day after refusing to withdraw claims that Prime Minister Boris Johnson has "lied to the House and the country over and over again".
- The Home Office has confirmed 13 "serious foreign criminals" have been deported to Jamaica this morning despite a high profile campaign against the flight.
- Minutes before his arrival in the UK, President Trump took to Twitter to say Sadiq Khan has done a "terrible job as Mayor of London" and described him as "a stone cold loser who should focus on crime in London, not me".
- One Just Stop Oil protestor was slammed onto the bonnet of a van stuck in traffic
- BREAKING: Boris Johnson confirms the UK is ‘past the peak’ of coronavirus
- Meghan Markle faced ‘very real & disgusting’ threats to her life while living in Britain, ex counter terror chief says
