Government officials and Labour Party members are currently confronting a series of significant political challenges, ranging from discussions surrounding Brexit to the future of North Sea energy production.
These complex issues require strategic navigation by leadership as the administration addresses competing priorities within the cabinet and across the wider public.
More details are expected as the story develops.
Letter to PM argues series of wrong choices on North Sea oil, Heathrow, EVs and heat pumps will scupper net zero plans Andy Burnham will “sleepwalk” into climate disaster if he fails to get a grip on a series of important policies whose combined impact could scupper plans to reach net zero, campaigners have said. Big decisions on North Sea drilling , the expansion of Heathrow airport , electric vehicles (EVs) and grants for heat pumps are awaiting decisions from ministers. Continue reading...
President Trump campaigned Monday in Mississippi, as he continued a closing midterm rally blitz that has highlighted Republicans' challenges ahead of an election that could drastically shift power in Washington.
The Trump administration is attempting to prosecute James Comey for what it calls a decade-old leak of classified information. Comey's lawyers immediately dismissed the effort as invalid and outside the time limit.
Tasks from determining asylum seekers’ ages to border surveillance now involve AI, says Open Rights Group AI has been embedded across the Home Office in near-total secrecy, reinforcing the so-called hostile environment for immigration, according to research. Tasks from the detection of potential sham marriages to determining the age of asylum seekers and checking through the contents of phones of new arrivals now involve use of the technology, according to a report by Open Rights Group (ORG). Continue reading...
Comey, who was fired during Trump's first term, has been accused of unlawfully divulging national security information.
The building has been described as a "gloomy, mice-infested, bomb-curtained rabbit warren".