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
LONDON — Prime Minister Rishi Sunak defended Britain’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic on Monday, telling an official inquiry he did not recognize testimony describing a dysfunctional government and saying his hospitality scheme was supported at the time. The inquiry is examining Britain’s response to the pandemic which killed more than 230,000 people in the … Read more
IT is one of the most liberal nations on Earth, with a left-wing govern- ment and generous welfare handouts. Yet Denmark’s ruling Social Democrats party has clamped down hard on immigration to woo working-class voters. 5 Denmark’s Minister of Migration and Integration, Kaare Dybvad Bek has warned arrivals have to be limitedCredit: Reuters 5 Denmark … Read more
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. LONDON — In a strip-lit hearing room in central London this week, 1,353 days after his first COVID lockdown, Boris Johnson finally testified to the U.K.’s inquiry into the pandemic. The ex-prime minister’s allies believe he gave a competent account of himself to aid … Read more
