Rishi Sunak
16 Sep 2023
At the just concluded gathering of G20 leaders in India, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the UK’s biggest single financial contribution to helping the world’s most vulnerable people adapt to and mitigate the impact of climate change.
13 Sep 2023
Britain's economy shrank more than expected in July, hit by strike action and wet weather, official data showed Wednesday. Output contracted 0.5 percent compared with growth of 0.5 percent in June, the Office for National Statistics added in a statement. Analysts' consensus forecast had been for contraction to gross domestic product in July of 0.2…
12 Sep 2023
The UK unemployment rate edged higher to 4.3 percent in the three months to the end of July, as wage growth remained at a record high, official data showed Tuesday. Unemployment had been 4.2 percent in the quarter to the end of June, the Office for National Statistics added in a statement. Average regular earnings…
9 Sep 2023
UK police on Saturday arrested a terror suspect who escaped from a London prison earlier this week, sparking a nationwide manhunt. "Metropolitan Police officers have arrested Daniel Khalife.
30 Aug 2023
Judges could be given the power to order criminals to attend their sentencing, according to planned legislation announced Wednesday by the UK's justice ministry. It comes after offenders in several high-profile trials were not in court to hear their sentence and statements from the victims' families, prompting repeated calls for a change in the law.…
14 Aug 2023
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak blames the "criminal gangs" facilitating small boat Channel crossings for the "horrific" weekend deaths of at least six migrants, his spokesman said Monday. Six Afghan men died and dozens more required rescuing after a small vessel bound for the southeast English coast from France sank in the Channel in the…
20 Jul 2023
English hospitals were braced Thursday for the latest doctors' strike to hit the state-run health service, with managers warning it will leave "routine care virtually at a standstill". The two-day strike by consultants comes amid record patient waiting times due to a vast pandemic backlog and multiple strikes across the economy over the past year…
15 Jul 2023
The UK's oldest medical union on Saturday hit out at government plans to increase the amount migrant workers pay to use the state healthcare service
14 Jul 2023
The United Kingdom (UK) has announced that it will 'significantly' increase visa fees and the Immigration Health Surcharge (IHS). The UK prime minister, Rishi Sunak, disclosed the development during a Downing Street press conference on Thursday, noting that it will help fund public-sector pay increases. Recall that public sector workers in the UK, including teachers…
10 Jul 2023
President Joe Biden met Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on a flying visit to London on Monday, as both readied to join a NATO summit where Ukraine is expected to push to join the alliance once its war with Russia is over.
4 Jul 2023
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Tuesday urged Israel to protect Palestinian civilians as the country's armed forces wage their biggest operation in years in the occupied West Bank. Sunak reiterated UK support for Israel's right to self-defence, and condemned Palestinian "terrorist attacks", as he was grilled by members of parliament on an array of…
30 Jun 2023
A British minister resigned on Friday, a day after he was named in a report by MPs who condemned a campaign of abuse directed by supporters of former prime minister Boris Johnson.