For the first time, countries that attended the COP28 climate summit this week have signed a deal that will see the end of fossil fuels being used. In an attempt to reach global net zero emissions by 2050, the countries agreed to work towards “ambitious” anti-pollution goals over the next two years. The COP28 President, … Read more
THE Prime Minister swerved questions about whether he wanted a spring General Election and whether the Tories had written off the Central Belt seats. Rishi Sunak fuelled speculation of a Spring 2024 election with a new year tax giveaway Autumn Statement last month. 2 Rishi Sunak has swerved questions about a potential Tory wipeout in … Read more
DUBLIN — The Democratic Unionists dumped a lump of coal in the British government’s Christmas stocking Monday, declaring that their party will maintain its stubborn blockade of Northern Ireland’s cross-community government into the new year — a deadlock that could take billions in extra U.K. finance to break. Hopes were dashed of a pre-Christmas breakthrough … Read more
AT least 61 people, including children, have been killed in a “tragic shipwreck” after a boat carrying 86 migrants left Libya. The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in Libya made the announcement on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday. 1 At least 61 people are thought to have died in the tragedy. … Read more
ROME — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak likened Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to Margaret Thatcher as he called on European leaders to channel the old Conservative British leader’s “radicalism” and challenge decades-old rules around refugees. “Thatcher understood that ideas are only important if they can be implemented,” Sunak said in a speech at the … Read more
Appearing on BBC Breakfast this week, Labour Leader Keir Starmer called Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s emergency Rwanda treaty a “performance art”. The Rwanda treaty, which will see all undocumented migrants who have arrived to the UK through the English Channel deported to Rwanda, was ruled “unlawful” by both the Court of Appeal and the Supreme … Read more
A committee of MIT leaders and scholars has released a set of policy briefs outlining a framework for the governance of artificial intelligence. Their approach includes extending current regulatory and liability approaches in pursuit of a practical way to oversee AI. The papers aim to help enhance US leadership in the area of artificial intelligence … Read more
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faces the COVID Inquiry today, regarding his role as Chancellor during the pandemic. Among the questions he faces is the matter of his “lost” WhatsApps from the pandemic period – Sunak claims they have been “missing” since he changed phones. The prime minister is the latest member of the COVID-19 cabinet … Read more
The UK Government has given Rwanda a further £100m this year as part of its deal to relocate asylum seekers there. The substantial payment was made in April of this year, the Home Office’s top civil servant said in a letter to MPs, after £140m had already been sent to the African nation. Sir Matthew … Read more
LONDON — They may be bitter Tory rivals, but Rishi Sunak rose above it all Monday as he resisted several chances to take potshots at his predecessor Boris Johnson. Sunak, now the U.K.’s prime minister, spent Monday being grilled by the independent inquiry about his time as Johnson’s top finance minister during the coronavirus pandemic. … Read more
