The UK Government has announced plans to strengthen the Charity Commission's powers to close down charities that promote extremism and protect the vast majority of the sector delivering positive work.
This is in addition to an imminent consultation that will road-test plans to ban leaders who use their positions to promote violence or hatred. Individuals with a criminal conviction for hate crime will be banned from serving as charity trustees or senior managers.
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May 08, 2026 15:50 ET Manufacturing and services sector survey results and labor market data from main economies were the highlight on the economics news front this week. Factory orders and jobs report dominated the news flow in the U.S. Similarly, industrial production data from German garnered attention in Europe. In Asia, purchasing managers’ survey results from China and the central bank decision from Australia were in focus.