"At least PM-in-waiting Rishi Sunak knows he’s got the markets on his side," AJ Bell financial analyst Danni Hewson said Monday. "Investors clearly hope Sunak will stabilise the economy and the political situation — though it’s hard to work out at this point which is the harder task...
Yet it is far from clear just how much the prime minister of Britain can do at a moment like this, when geopolitics could be tilting in a new, and possibly more dangerous, direction. Rishi Sunak may have more answers than most others - but he does not have all of them...
Rishi Sunak’s £400bn balancing act: With the Budget fast approaching, here’s how the Chancellor can raise revenues without wrecking the Covid recovery The last new tax proposed by an economist was the poll tax. That didn’t end well. ...
Rishi Sunak was made aware of thetwo arrestslast night, and I understand decided to go ahead with aface-to-face with the Chinese premier Li Qiangwhich had been discussed in advance but not confirmed. The issue of Chinese inference was the first thing he mentioned. It could, when details ...
16 Always go to the effort of finding out to whom you should direct your complaint. If possible you should first make contact with the person you dealt with in the first place or a company’s customer care department. 17 If things are going badly when you are on the phone to a cust...
FILE - From left, Lithuania’s President Gitanas Nauseda, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, President Joe Biden, Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pose during a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council durin...
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak suggested he plans to call a UK general election in the second half of the year as he sought to silence calls for a vote in May. “My working assumption is we’ll have a general election in the second half of this year, and in the meantime I’ve got lo...
“It is also a way to skim over everything that’s happening in the present day,” says Burrell. “It suggests that we haven’t seen real or serious harm yet.” An old fear Concerns about runaway, self-improving machines have been around since Alan Turing. Futurists like Vernor Vinge ...
Ever since Rishi Sunak announced in June that the UK would host the “first major global summit on artificial intelligence safety”, officials in Westminster have been racing to assemble a guest list of tech bosses, policymakers and researchers within a punishing deadline. Sunak’s pledge to orga...
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s announcement to support the new Rosebank oil project in July 2023 came at a crucial point in the global fight against climate change. One of the largest untapped oil reserves in UK waters, it could account for 8 per cent of the UK’s oil production by...