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UK immigration
UK lacks detention capacity for Rishi Sunak’s migration crackdown
...The estimates were based on official data that tracked the number of people arriving in small boats in 2023....
March 12, 2024
BBC
UK government appoints veteran TV executive Samir Shah as BBC chair
...Shah has had a 40-year career in TV and previously served as a BBC non-executive director in 2007 as well as in positions including head of current affairs....
December 6, 2023
FT Live
Future of Asset Management Europe
New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence
Tuesday, 12 NovemberLondon, UK
US foreign policy
White House decision to not replace Asia tsar stokes concern among US allies
...Kurt Campbell, the Biden administration’s former Asia tsar, was on Tuesday confirmed by the Senate in his new role as deputy secretary of state, giving him a wider foreign affairs remit than the Indo-Pacific...
February 6, 2024
US politics & policy
Joe Biden picks Asia expert Kurt Campbell for deputy secretary of state
...His move is the latest in a series of Asia-related personnel shifts. Sarah Beran recently succeeded Laura Rosenberger as the top White House China official....
November 1, 2023
US-China relations
US lawmakers set for Taipei visits in show of support for Taiwan
...Several prominent US lawmakers will travel to Taipei in the coming weeks in a show of support for Lai Ching-te, who will be inaugurated as Taiwan’s new president in May following his election victory on...
January 18, 2024
Israel-Hamas war
Israel suspends government spokesperson after dispute with UK foreign secretary
...He is a graduate of the same Oxford university college as former British prime minister Cameron, and previously served in the Israeli military unit responsible for civilian affairs in the occupied Palestinian...
March 20, 2024
FT Live
Accelerating the Energy Transition in Asia
Industrial strategies and policy drivers for sustainability
Tuesday, 30 JulyMandala Club, 31 Bukit Pasoh Rd, Singapore 089845
News in-depthDonald Trump
Donald Trump prepares his final pitch on presidential immunity
...One likely priority for chief justice John Roberts will be to gather as much consensus as possible for a decision, rather than expose the court to more criticisms about partisanship....
April 24, 2024
Transcript
Transcript: Britain’s China conundrum
...I mean, David Cameron, now the foreign secretary, during his premiership we were incredibly friendly as a nation towards China. He and George Osborne wanted to forge greater links....
March 28, 2024
UK immigration
MPs reject proposed changes to Sunak’s Rwanda asylum bill
...in the next two months as crucial to his electoral fortunes....
March 18, 2024
InterviewNuclear energy
UK should consider wider range of nuclear power options, says top official
...The UK should consider a range of technologies for future large-scale nuclear power plants as it seeks to revive the sector, according to the top official overseeing those efforts, casting doubt over the...
April 9, 2024
The Trump machine
The Trump machine: the inner circle preparing for a second term
...One is Keith Kellogg — a retired three-star US Army lieutenant general and a veteran of the NSC in the Trump White House....
March 26, 2024
Transcript
Transcript: 2024 — a testing year for democracy
...Lucy FisherGideon Rachman, chief foreign affairs commentator. Hi, Gideon. Gideon RachmanHi, Lucy. Lucy FisherAnd Political Fix regular Robert Shrimsley, the UK’s chief political commentator....
January 5, 2024
Drug trafficking
Ecuador arrests 6,000 people in month-long gang crackdown
...The number of people in jail already far exceeds the prison system’s capacity: 31,321 people were incarcerated at the end of 2022, according to the most recent census, 14 per cent higher than its official...
February 8, 2024
UK business
Badenoch row with ex-Post Office chair risks putting business leaders off public posts
...Staunton, a City veteran appointed to head the Post Office in 2022 after the extent of the Horizon scandal was clear, triggered the high-profile war of words by hitting back at Badenoch in an interview last...
February 23, 2024
UK prisons
Prisons are reaching bursting point in England and Wales, ministers concede
...On whether the prisons had reached capacity, he said they were “under huge pressure”, partly because the government had ensured prisoners were in jail “for longer” and because of “pressures as a result of...
October 12, 2023
FT Live
Future of the Car
The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive
Tuesday, 7 MaySancroft, Paternoster Square, London EC4M 7DQ, UK
Conservative Party UK
Sunak braced for big Tory rebellion over Rwanda asylum plan
...Sunak’s party was in turmoil ahead of votes on his Rwanda asylum bill in the House of Commons on Tuesday and Wednesday, with veteran MPs urging the right to pull back from civil war....
January 15, 2024
UK politics
Rishi Sunak braced for crucial week as Tory party splits widen over Rwanda
...Splits within the UK Conservative party over migration policy widened on Sunday as Rishi Sunak was braced for a crucial week of his premiership, with a crunch vote on the Rwanda removal scheme and scrutiny...
December 10, 2023
Post Office scandal
Post Office sought to double chief executive’s pay package
...Staunton, a City of London veteran appointed in 2022, triggered a spat with the government this month after he alleged a senior official instructed him to stall payouts to Post Office victims....
February 28, 2024
UK politics
Rishi Sunak secures Commons approval for Rwanda bill as rebel MPs back down
...Rishi Sunak quelled a rightwing Conservative revolt over his flagship Rwanda asylum bill on Wednesday as the House of Commons approved the legislation in a pivotal vote....
January 17, 2024
Taiwan
US delegation heads to Taiwan after voters defy China
...“As we have done previously following a Taiwan presidential election, the US government has asked former senior officials to travel in their private capacity to Taiwan....
January 14, 2024
Post Office scandal
Post Office chief executive under investigation, says ex-chair
...Staunton, a City of London veteran who was sacked by business secretary Kemi Badenoch in late January after a little more than a year in the job, had himself been investigated for what he called “politically...
February 27, 2024
Inside Politics
Are surveys missing Labour and Lib Dem tactical voting?
...Wilson’s Downing Street affair | Three decades after Harold Wilson’s death, and 48 years on from the end of his premiership, the former prime minister’s long-serving press secretary Joe Haines has told for...
April 11, 2024
News in-depthUK tax
Hunt’s Budget dilemma: play it safe or be ‘bold’ to save Tory seats
...“He is well regarded in the Treasury as a sensible person who, left to his own devices, will try to do the right thing....
March 5, 2024
UK immigration
Immigration minister quits as Sunak unveils new Rwanda asylum bill
...Robert Jenrick, immigration minister, quit on Wednesday as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s last-ditch attempt to save his Rwanda asylum policy with “emergency” legislation unleashed a rightwing Conservative...
December 6, 2023
Robert Menendez
Robert Menendez charges rattle New Jersey’s infamous Hudson County
...Senator Robert Menendez appeared in a Manhattan court with his wife, Nadine, just over a week ago to plead not guilty to charges that he accepted gold bars and other bribes from businessmen connected to...
October 8, 2023

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