Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson denied under oath he lied to lawmakers about goverment parties during lockdown. We analyse what Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s new post-Brexit arrangement means for people in Northern Ireland. A senior DUP MP says the EU is using Northern Ireland as the “whipping boy” to punish Britain for Brexit.
U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of the United Kingdom and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia in San Diego, California, on the morning of March 13 to discuss the Australia-United Kingdom-United States (AUKUS) Partnership. Biden will participate in bilateral meetings with Sunak and Albanese. The president delivers remarks on the […]
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says China under Communist Party rule presents “an epoch-defining challenge” as the government announces an extra 5 billion pounds in defence spending. The BBC has reinstated Gary Lineker and announced an independent review of its social media guidelines. We hear from an expert who says there are political agendas behind some […]
The head of MI5 says he’s “profoundly sorry” after an inquiry finds his agency missed a “significant chance” to stop the Manchester Arena bombing. In his first major UK speech since leaving Number 10, Boris Johnson says he would find it very difficult to support Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s new Brexit deal. We’ll be hearing […]
Rishi Sunak is confident that his Brexit deal fix—the Windsor Framework—will be supported, and it is supported by Labour. But concerns about the details of the deal remain, and he still needs to garner support from Unionist and Eurosceptic MPs. Otherwise, the prime minister risks looking like a weak leader who can only unify his […]
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faces a test of his leadership over concerns about his new deal on post-Brexit trading arrangements in Northern Ireland. We discuss China policies and the UK’s reluctance to sanction more Chinese Communist Party officials with MP Tim Loughton. Shoppers in the UK and France are bracing for even higher food prices.
The UK and the EU have struck the “Windsor Framework” agreement, hailed as a “decisive breakthrough” to resolve the issues with the Northern Ireland Protocol. Rishi Sunak said it will remove lots of customs paperwork, and add a “Stormont Brake” provision to enable Northern Ireland to block EU laws. But before it’s fully accepted, MPs […]
The prime minister promises the government will do “whatever it takes” to keep the UK public safe from Chinese spy balloons. Politicians join protesters after reports that the Chinese Communist Party’s deputy secretary of the Xinjiang region, sanctioned by the United States for persecuting Uyghurs, will be meeting Foreign Office officials. A man is in […]
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak defends the allocation of levelling-up money, saying most of it goes to the most deprived part of the country. The nurses’ strike enters the second day, as health leaders begin to make contingency plans for a joint strike of nurses and ambulance workers. Sinn Fein renews calls for an Irish Unity referendum, saying […]
Dozens of people have been injured after a double-decker bus overturned on icy roads. The prime minister says he will appoint a tsar with the power to ensure free speech on university campuses. We ask an expert whether his plan will work. China’s population fell for the first time in six decades, but residents are […]
