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UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced that his government will increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP by the end of the decade. Sunak made the announcement during a visit to Warsaw, where he also unveiled a new pledge to send arms to Ukraine. He said the government is putting the UK's defence industry “on a war footing", describing it as the “biggest strengthening of our national defence for a generation”. "In a world that is the most dangerous it has been since the end of the Cold War, we cannot be complacent," he said at a news briefing in the Polish capital alongside NATO secretary ...
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If there was anyone who imagined that, after kowtowing to Boris Johnson throughout his dismal premiership, leading her own dangerous and divisive culture war campaign for the Tory party leadership contest, crashing the UK economy in one afternoon, and resigning after a mere seven weeks as Prime Minister, Liz Truss would beat a quiet, shamefaced retreat from the public eye, then those people - and there can’t have been many - need to think again. Today, the shortest-serving British Prime Minister ever releases her new book, the ominously (and poorly) titled 'Ten Years to Save the West: Lessons ...
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A new report has estimated that the reunification of Ireland would cost around €20 billion a year for two decades. Findings from the Dublin-based Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) take into account the current level of funding Northern Ireland receives from the UK government. They also include the share of UK national debt it would presumably carry were it to join a united Ireland as well as its economy's markedly low productivity relative to the Republic of Ireland. Northern Ireland's public services currently rely heavily on a "subvention" of some €11 billion from the UK...
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More than 600 British jurists, including three retired judges from the UK Supreme Court, are calling on the government to suspend arms sales to Israel. The move piles more pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak after three UK aid workers were killed in an Israeli strike. In an open letter to Sunak published late Wednesday, the lawyers and judges said the UK could be complicit in "grave breaches of international law" if it continues to ship weapons. The signatories, among them former Supreme Court President Brenda Hale, said the UK is legally obliged to heed the International Court of Justice's...
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We know what it’s like to have to leave your home against your will and at short notice. To travel to a new country and try to rebuild your life. And we know that the UK Government’s cruel "cash for humans" deal with Rwanda won’t stop people from taking dangerous journeys to seek safety in the UK. We’re part of a group of people with lived experience of the UK immigration and asylum system — some of us are torture survivors, some of us refugees, and some of us are stuck in the backlog still trying to find safety. But we all had a life, family, role, and respect in our homelands, and we can tel...
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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said this week that pro-Palestinian protests calling for the end of the conflict in Gaza are threatening to replace democracy with "mob rule". Sunak made the controversial comment during a meeting of police leaders on Wednesday, warning of a "pattern of increasingly violent and intimidatory behaviour" that's intended to "shout down free debate and stop elected representatives doing their job". The Conservative prime minister declared that "there is a growing consensus that mob rule is replacing democratic rule. And we've got to collectively, all of us, change...
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The leaders of the UK and Ireland went to Belfast Monday to meet Northern Ireland’s newly revived government and bask in a good-news moment after two years of political crisis. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Irish counterpart Leo Varadkar were visiting the new administration at Belfast's Stormont Castle as its ministers met for the first time. The ministers wasted no time before pressing London for more money to patch up Northern Ireland’s creaking public services. The visits came two days after members of the Northern Ireland Assembly appointed a power-sharing government following a t...
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