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...Officials cautioned that the government is yet to sign off on new funding for the announcement....
...The Foreign Office said earlier this week: “Boris Johnson was visiting in a personal capacity and not acting on behalf of the UK government.”...
...The first detentions under the as yet untested Rwanda asylum scheme come in a difficult week for Sunak, with his Conservative party expected to suffer heavy losses in local elections in England and Wales...
...The UK prime minister told a press conference in Berlin on Wednesday that his prioritisation of defence — following his pledge this week to raise expenditure to 2.5 per cent of national income on it by 2030...
...I’m Lucy Fisher. And I’m joined in the studio today by my FT colleagues George Parker. Hi, George. George ParkerHi, Lucy. Lucy FisherAnd the FT’s Robert Shrimsley. Hi, Robert....
...GB News, which is co-owned by Brexit-backing hedge fund tycoon Paul Marshall, will give the ex-premier a TV platform to air his views in the run-up to the UK general election expected next year....
...I don’t particularly think democracy is in retreat in general terms, but it has the capacity to be badly undermined....
...Wootton said in a statement: “I can see how inappropriate my reaction to his totally unacceptable remarks appears to be and want to be clear that I was in no way amused by the comments.”...
...Downing Street officials said about 20 bills are expected....
...His successor Prabowo Subianto, who will take over in October following a landslide election victory, has vowed to maintain that trajectory....
...Xi’s top priority for his six-day visit would be damage limitation, Chinese officials said....
...However, his case was dismissed by the High Court in London....
...“[W]e have never suggested that the president, or any other official, has an immunity that extends beyond the scope of any action taken in an official capacity,” the justices wrote in 1997....
...The ministerial code of conduct states that departments “will publish, quarterly, details of hospitality received by ministers in a ministerial capacity”....
...Additional reporting by Lucy Fisher and David Sheppard in London...
..., where his country has been accused of planning to dump cheap goods in EU markets, a concern echoed in Washington....
...The debate here is whether it will have the capacity to start cutting as soon as June. Our expert Chris Giles has much to say about this, and other central bank matters, in his excellent newsletter....
...The US and China supported tripling renewable energy capacity globally by 2030....
...Downing Street officials insist there is still a “narrow path” to victory if the prime minister proves his competence by delivering on these vows, which is by no means a certainty....
...Read our obituary here and don’t miss this round-up of Munger in his own words....
...Shortly after, when the group had done no such thing, Eshelman sued, asking for his money back....
...Because if that was the case, people wouldn’t be playing politics with it,” says Jacob Kirkegaard, senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund in Brussels....
...Hotels housing the out of state reinforcements are at capacity....
...In Broxtowe in the East Midlands, a leftwing councillor called Greg Marshall who was Labour candidate in 2017 and 2019 did not make the seat’s shortlist despite being backed by eight unions....
...However, today, there is nothing to guarantee that,” says lawmaker Barbara Pompili, a minister under Macron in his first term, but who has just left his party....
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