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...Why did Rishi Sunak use a rare Downing Street intervention to warn against the forces of extremism?...
...Downing Street declined to comment, stating the investigation was a matter for the police....
...MacNamara, who was fined for attending a party in Whitehall in 2020, also said the government’s own social-distancing rules were never followed in Downing Street....
...Though Downing Street officials said all policy decisions in the Sunak administration stem from the prime minister himself, Gilligan, a former journalist, is to HS2’s supporters the bête noire lurking in...
...In a letter to the Georgia prosecutor, Jordan said: “The trial in this matter begin[s] on March 4 2024, the day before Super Tuesday and eight days before the Georgia presidential primary.”...
...“If this information [about the downing of the planes] is confirmed, it would be another dark day for the Russian aerospace forces and air defence,” the channel said....
...“The Greek case has become more sophisticated — arguing for a loan rather than restitution of ownership — and contrasts with the [British Museum]’s blinkered intransigence to consider any compromises,” she...
...But Downing Street, the Treasury and the Department for Transport refused to commit to building the line between Birmingham and Manchester when contacted by the Financial Times....
...The nationwide revulsion that the lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street or the Windrush scandal inspired was wholly absent....
...Manchester where the Conservatives held their annual party conference this week and Rishi Sunak pitched himself as the candidate for “change” at the next election, despite his party holding the keys to Downing...
...HS2’s costs do, it is true, resemble a runaway train....
...To do that, Labour needs a bigger swing than that achieved by Tony Blair in 1997’s Labour victory. So the party’s relatively unimpressive performance in local elections is also cause for concern....
...Downing Street insisted “no decision has been taken” on HS2 but senior Conservatives said Sunak had decided to save billions of pounds by building only the southern leg between London and Birmingham....
...Downing Street on Monday said: “We don’t tell private companies how to set their own wages. It is for shareholders to hold these companies to account....
...A Downing Street spokesperson said that as a result, the business case for the project had changed, now only providing 80p for each pound spent instead of £2.30....
...But it is certainly possible, at least, that events in Scotland lead to an unwinding of 2014’s salience shock and a very different political battle in Scotland to the one we all expected not so long ago....
...Sunak’s axing of HS2’s northern leg also has consequences for Northern Powerhouse Rail....
...s=20 Buckingham Palace said: “The King is pleased to meet any world leader if they are visiting Britain and it is the government’s advice that he should do so.”Downing Street insisted that it was not the...
...Alice Harrison, campaign leader for fossil fuels at Global Witness, said COP28’s decision to hire Canzini seemed “very on-brand for a summit that is already looking set to be a polluter’s paradise”....
...The AI meeting is a British initiative, taking place alongside the G7’s “Hiroshima AI framework”, which has been set up to co-ordinate global regulation of the new sector....
...So in one way, it is a good day for Sunak when David Cameron, George Osborne and Boris Johnson all attack his plan to scrap HS2’s northern leg....
...“The UK will host the first major global summit on AI safety this autumn,” a spokesperson for the government said on Wednesday, adding that Downing Street would set out further details in due course....
...Other senior figures in her inner circle include Ruth Porter, managing director at consultants FGS Global, who will be Number 10’s deputy chief of staff....
...Following two unexpectedly poignant series about the modern-day porn industry, 2017’s The Butterfly Effect and 2019’s The Last Days of August, in 2021 he made the critically acclaimed BBC podcast Things...
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