Rishi Sunak
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Kemi Badenoch: Current UK Conservatives leader – and first black woman to head a major British party
Britain’s Conservative Party on Saturday elected Kemi Badenoch as its new leader as it tries to rebound from a crushing election defeat that ended 14 years in power. The first Black woman to lead a major British political party, Badenoch (pronounced BADE-enock) defeated rival lawmaker Robert Jenrick in a vote of almost 100,000 members of…
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Sir Keir Starmer has come under scrutiny over the past week for the more than £100,000-worth of gifts he has accepted. But what exactly has the PM been criticised for, what are his party’s concerns, and what has he said about it? His wife’s clothes Talk of the PM’s gifts began last weekend, when The Sunday…
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Millions in Britain began to cast their votes in the general election on Thursday, as around 40,000 polling stations across the country opened at 7 a.m. local time (0600 GMT). Voters in 650 constituencies will elect members of the House of Commons, the lower chamber of parliament. A party must win at least 326 seats…
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It was reported last weekend that allies of Penny Mordaunt claimed Downing Street was keeping her “in a box” during the election campaign because Rishi Sunak’s team see her as a threat. Well, after her barnstorming performance in a TV debate against politicians from six opposition parties, the Leader of the Commons is well and…
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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak suffered a fresh setback in his struggling election campaign on Friday when he apologized for leaving D-Day commemorations early in order to give an interview attacking the main opposition party. Sunak’s decision not to stay at the event in northern France alongside other world leaders on Thursday was met with…
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Outgoing Tory MP and minister of many things Michael Gove has just stuck his head in the door to take a look at the journalists beavering away. So is he ready to spin yet? “There will be no spin,” he tells the reporters. “Only the truth”. I ask how Rishi Sunak is feeling with under…
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Rishi Sunak has said he will introduce a new form of mandatory National Service for young people if the Conservatives win the general election. In the first new policy announcement of the campaign, the prime minister has unveiled a plan that would see 18-year-olds given the choice of a full-time military placement for 12 months or a…
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Ireland is pledging emergency legislation enabling it to send asylum seekers back to the UK. More than 80% of recent arrivals in the republic came via the land border with Northern Ireland, Irish justice minister Helen McEntee told a parliamentary committee last week. Rishi Sunak told Sky News it showed the UK’s Rwanda scheme was already…
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This is a tale that’s more than just a marmalade dropper. It’s a story so astounding you have to pick yourself up off the floor. Mark Menzies MP last December allegedly made a 3.15am phone call to an elderly party volunteer asking for £5,000 as a matter of “life or death” because he had been locked up…
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‘Significant escalation not in anyone’s interest’, Sunak says Israel “absolutely has the right to self-defense” but “significant escalation is not in anyone’s interest”, the prime minister has said. Responding to an apparent Israeli strike in Iran overnight, Rishi Sunak said his government had “condemned Iran’s reckless and dangerous barrage of missiles against Israel on Saturday”.…
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Rishi Sunak has defended the UK’s decision not to suspend arms sales to Israel, saying “none of our closest allies” have done so. The British prime minister said the UK has a “long-established process” relating to the arms export regime and “we review these things regularly”. “That’s led to no change. Actually none of our…
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The shadow chancellor has responded angrily to news the UK is in recession, accusing the government of failing to act on its promises. “Rishi Sunak’s promise to grow the economy is now in tatters,” Labour’s Rachel Reeves said. “This is Rishi Sunak’s recession and the news will be deeply worrying for families and business across…
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The UK economy has officially entered recession, figures show. A recession is defined as two consecutive three-month periods where the economy contracts rather than grows. A major measure of economic growth, gross domestic product (GDP) shrank 0.3% between October and December, the latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) data shows. It’s a steeper-than-expected fall, as…
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The conversation with Laura Farris then turns to news Labour has suspended another parliamentary candidate over alleged anti-Israel remarks. She said: “Any discrimination by somebody who is either a public official or seeking elected office is completely, completely untenable, and it’s completely inconsistent with holding any kind of public office.” Ms Farris said it is…
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Next with Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove, we turn to Rishi Sunak’s five priorities to know if he (Gove) wishes the PM had never tied the government to them. Mr Gove replies definitively “no”, and says it’s “important to draw a distinction between ourselves and the opposition”. He says Labour “don’t have a plan”, and…
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MEZIESBLOG has heard from Rishi Sunak today as he defended the joint US-UK airstrikes on the Houthis in Yemen overnight, saying Britain “cannot stand by” in the face of the group’s actions. This line of thinking was disputed by journalist and filmmaker Dr Myriam Francois during The World with Yalda Hakim, a new foreign affairs show…
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