Unchecked UK in the media

Unchecked UK in the media


LBC News – ‘Brits exposed to more than dirty water’: Ofwat reforms are a start but government must do more

LBC News (radio) – Unchecked UK praise Ofwat reforms but says government must go further

Labour ListVoters don’t want de-regulation. They want government to have their back

BBC 5 LiveUnchecked UK calls for high business standards

LBC NewsUnchecked UK says Starmer’s rhetoric on regulation is ‘more of the same’

The Big IssueKeir Starmer’s promise to slash red tape and ‘rip out bureaucracy’ is a step backwards for Britain

Labour List: Grenfell was the product of a broken and dangerous ideology: deregulation. Labour must draw a line under it

Al Jazeera: Carum Basra comments on the decade of deregulation that led to the Grenfell tredegy

BBC: Delays in food hygiene inspections a ‘serious public health issue’

Byline Times: Gaming the Refs: Watchdogs ‘Captured’ Amid Cuts and Political Pressure

CityAM: A bonfire of red tape doesn’t actually make us more competitive

The Owen Jones Show: Tory Britain FALLS APART. Literally.

LBC News

Business Green: We can’t protect and restore nature without better information about it’

The Northern Echo: North Yorkshire rivers neglected full testing since 2017′

The Telegraph: Fears river species are going extinct as Natural England inspections drop’

LabourList: ‘Fair rules on sewage or pay aren’t ‘red tape’. Labour must strengthen them’

The i Paper: Labour must toughen stance on environment and increase fines on polluting water firms, say voters

The Financial Times: UK’s move to row back on madcap retained EU law bill is welcome

Sky News: MPs call for workers’ rights watchdog amid weak enforcement of labour protections

The Grocer: A stronger, better supported FSA would benefit the whole food system

Business Green: Energy market reform is key – but it needs to be done right

Edie: Can regulation open the floodgates for green finance?

The i Paper: Jacob Rees-Mogg’s Brexit bonfire of EU rules has retoxified the Tories

Edie: Majority of UK businesses against weakening regulatory standards in Retained EU Law Bill

The Express: Sunak under pressure as PM warned against ‘nightmare’ plans to tear up EU laws

The Financial Times: Plans to disentangle British and EU laws will cause more uncertainty, poll says

The Times: Voters will punish this failure to protect us

Ends Report: Budget signals potential shift in retained EU law reform but ‘threat remains’, experts warn

The Sunday Telegraph: Fly-tipping surges nearly 38pc in past decade

The Daily Mail: Fly-tipping in England surges by 38% since 2010 with more than a million incidents recorded last year

The Express: Fly-tipping ‘blight’ surges 38 percent as environment secretary vows to clamp down

The Week: Ten Things You Need to Know Today: 9 October 2022

The Ecologist: Alarm over dismantling of UK nature laws

The Times: Tory plans to relax laws protecting wildlife condemned by nature groups

The Times: Voters want the new PM to address Britain’s nature emergency

The Telegraph: Water watchdog’s independence in question as revolving door with polluting private firms revealed

The Guardian: Tory leadership contenders urged not to ditch vital regulations

Channel 4 News: Traces of drugs found in marine life after sewage pumped into British waters

Channel 4 Dispatches: Britain’s Water Scandal

The Guardian: This is what ‘cutting red tape’ gets you: rivers polluted without consequence

The Guardian: In the Passport Office queue I see distress, despair and the dilapidated state of Britain

The National: Why the UK’s Internal Market Act matters to Wales

ENDS report: Water pollution testing in England drops by two thirds amid pandemic

BBC Radio Wales

The National: Welsh support regulation over food standards and pollution

BusinessGreen: Regulation: A force for good

Western Mail: The Welsh public support regulations across many areas of public life

Wales News Online: Welsh voters back strong public protections

Western Mail: Regulation – a force for people’s good

Western Mail: Standards under threat, says report

Western Mail: It’s vital to invest in collective safeguards

Wales News Online: Landmark report champions value of regulation in Wales

The Guardian: Revealed: no penalties issued under ‘useless’ English farm pollution laws

ENDS report: Local industrial enforcement plummets

Inside Track: ‘Red wall’ swing voters support strong food regulations and standards

The Guardian: UK ministers gain power to allow lower-standard food imports

ENDS report: Boris Johnson kicks off new deregulatory drive

Business Green: Deregulation drive has crippled progress towards UK’s environmental goals, study argues

Left Foot Forward: How cutting environmental protections has actually cost businesses money

ENDS Report: Deregulation has undermined UK environmental objectives, finds report

The Telegraph: England’s nature reserves are health and safety hazards because of lack of investment

The Times: ‘Catastrophic’ cuts leave watchdogs unfit for purpose, say campaigners

The Telegraph: Jeremy Paxman accuses government of being ‘appallingly inept’ at tackling fly-tipping and litter

BBC Radio 4, Woman’s Hour

BBC Countryfile

ENDS report: Research reveals ‘huge gap’ in regulatory enforcement

Channel 4 Dispatches

The Daily Mirror: Dangerous chemicals found in kids’ toys and household products, tests reveal

The Sun: Toys containing 8 dangerous chemicals including lead found on sale in the UK

ENDS Report: Local authorities ‘struggling’ to enforce product safety rules

The Grocer: Food hygiene inspection backlog ‘massive and mounting’, experts warn

ConHome: Younger, leave-backing voters want a greener, environmentally-aware Conservative Party

The New European: Young Brexit voters want EU regulations

Politics Home: Labour must seize the political space opening up before us – and banish the poisonous myth about Leavers and Remainers

HuffPost: Younger Leave Voters Want To Keep Or Boost EU Regulation After Brexit, Poll Suggests

Left Foot Forward: Behind the budget: Are we about to witness a bonfire of social protections?

BBC News at Six

BBC News at Ten

BBC Radio 4 PM

BBC Radio Wales

The Times: One in five food samples contains a hidden allergen

The Times: Natasha’s death brought new food safety rules — but they need to be enforced

The Mirror: Amateur cooks sell dishes on Facebook without hygiene checks or regulations

The Times: Food safety checks down by half in 10 years

BBC: Homemade food: The home cooks selling hot dinners on Facebook

BBC Radio Suffolk

BBC Radio Solent

Journal of Trading Standards: Seeing red over the ‘red tape challenge’

The Times: Health and safety at risk as watchdog budgets halve

The Times, letters: Budget cuts and enforcement bodies

ENDS Report: Underfunded regulatory system ‘vulnerable to abuse’

Business Green: New campaign warns of UK’s unchecked environmental ‘enforcement gap’

Business Green: The scandal at the heart of the UK’s ‘world class’ environmental regulatory regime

DeSmog: Environmental Enforcement Agencies Have Been Crippled by Austerity

The Owen Jones Show: Tory Britain FALLS APART. Literally.

LBC News

Business Green: We can’t protect and restore nature without better information about it’

The Northern Echo: North Yorkshire rivers neglected full testing since 2017′

The Telegraph: Fears river species are going extinct as Natural England inspections drop’

The Financial Times: UK’s move to row back on madcap retained EU law bill is welcome

Sky News: MPs call for workers’ rights watchdog amid weak enforcement of labour protections

The Grocer: A stronger, better supported FSA would benefit the whole food system

Business Green: Energy market reform is key – but it needs to be done right

Edie: Can regulation open the floodgates for green finance?

The i Paper: Jacob Rees-Mogg’s Brexit bonfire of EU rules has retoxified the Tories

Edie: Majority of UK businesses against weakening regulatory standards in Retained EU Law Bill

The Express: Sunak under pressure as PM warned against ‘nightmare’ plans to tear up EU laws

The Financial Times: Plans to disentangle British and EU laws will cause more uncertainty, poll says

The Times: Voters will punish this failure to protect us

Ends Report: Budget signals potential shift in retained EU law reform but ‘threat remains’, experts warn

The Sunday Telegraph: Fly-tipping surges nearly 38pc in past decade

The Daily Mail: Fly-tipping in England surges by 38% since 2010 with more than a million incidents recorded last year

The Express: Fly-tipping ‘blight’ surges 38 percent as environment secretary vows to clamp down

The Week: Ten Things You Need to Know Today: 9 October 2022

The Ecologist: Alarm over dismantling of UK nature laws

The Times: Tory plans to relax laws protecting wildlife condemned by nature groups

The Times: Voters want the new PM to address Britain’s nature emergency

The Telegraph: Water watchdog’s independence in question as revolving door with polluting private firms revealed

The Guardian: Tory leadership contenders urged not to ditch vital regulations

Channel 4 News: Traces of drugs found in marine life after sewage pumped into British waters

Channel 4 Dispatches: Britain’s Water Scandal

The Guardian: This is what ‘cutting red tape’ gets you: rivers polluted without consequence

The Guardian: In the Passport Office queue I see distress, despair and the dilapidated state of Britain

The National: Why the UK’s Internal Market Act matters to Wales

ENDS report: Water pollution testing in England drops by two thirds amid pandemic

BBC Radio Wales

The National: Welsh support regulation over food standards and pollution

BusinessGreen: Regulation: A force for good

Western Mail: The Welsh public support regulations across many areas of public life

Wales News Online: Welsh voters back strong public protections

Western Mail: Regulation – a force for people’s good

Western Mail: Standards under threat, says report

Western Mail: It’s vital to invest in collective safeguards

Wales News Online: Landmark report champions value of regulation in Wales

The Guardian: Revealed: no penalties issued under ‘useless’ English farm pollution laws

ENDS report: Local industrial enforcement plummets

Inside Track: ‘Red wall’ swing voters support strong food regulations and standards

The Guardian: UK ministers gain power to allow lower-standard food imports

ENDS report: Boris Johnson kicks off new deregulatory drive

Business Green: Deregulation drive has crippled progress towards UK’s environmental goals, study argues

Left Foot Forward: How cutting environmental protections has actually cost businesses money

ENDS Report: Deregulation has undermined UK environmental objectives, finds report

The Telegraph: England’s nature reserves are health and safety hazards because of lack of investment

The Times: ‘Catastrophic’ cuts leave watchdogs unfit for purpose, say campaigners

The Telegraph: Jeremy Paxman accuses government of being ‘appallingly inept’ at tackling fly-tipping and litter

BBC Radio 4, Woman’s Hour

BBC Countryfile

ENDS report: Research reveals ‘huge gap’ in regulatory enforcement

Channel 4 Dispatches

The Daily Mirror: Dangerous chemicals found in kids’ toys and household products, tests reveal

The Sun: Toys containing 8 dangerous chemicals including lead found on sale in the UK

ENDS Report: Local authorities ‘struggling’ to enforce product safety rules

The Grocer: Food hygiene inspection backlog ‘massive and mounting’, experts warn

ConHome: Younger, leave-backing voters want a greener, environmentally-aware Conservative Party

The New European: Young Brexit voters want EU regulations

Politics Home: Labour must seize the political space opening up before us – and banish the poisonous myth about Leavers and Remainers

HuffPost: Younger Leave Voters Want To Keep Or Boost EU Regulation After Brexit, Poll Suggests

Left Foot Forward: Behind the budget: Are we about to witness a bonfire of social protections?

BBC News at Six

BBC News at Ten

BBC Radio 4 PM

BBC Radio Wales

The Times: One in five food samples contains a hidden allergen

The Times: Natasha’s death brought new food safety rules — but they need to be enforced

The Mirror:  Amateur cooks sell dishes on Facebook without hygiene checks or regulations

The Times: Food safety checks down by half in 10 years

BBC: Homemade food: The home cooks selling hot dinners on Facebook

BBC Radio Suffolk

BBC Radio Solent

Journal of Trading Standards: Seeing red over the ‘red tape challenge’

The Times: Health and safety at risk as watchdog budgets halve

The Times, letters: Budget cuts and enforcement bodies

ENDS Report: Underfunded regulatory system ‘vulnerable to abuse’

Business Green: New campaign warns of UK’s unchecked environmental ‘enforcement gap’

Business Green: The scandal at the heart of the UK’s ‘world class’ environmental regulatory regime

DeSmog: Environmental Enforcement Agencies Have Been Crippled by Austerity