Parliament in London on July 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) The U.K. has its first change in government in 14 years after the Labour Party won a landslide victory early Friday in a general election that saw the Conservative Party suffer its biggest defeat ever. The new government ...
On 5 February 2024, the Council and the Parliamentreacheda provisional agreement on the final text of a new regulation on ESG rating activities. The proposed regulation hopes to boost the reliability and comparability of ESG ratings by strengthening the transparency and integrity of ratings provider...
To clone the repository and set up the dependencies, run the following: git clone https://github.com/ukparliament/grom.gitcdgrom bundle install We useRSpecas our testing framework and tests can be run using: bundleexecrake If you wish to submit a bug fix or feature, you can create a pu...
Farage, who has served in the European Union parliament (on a pro-Brexit stance) but repeatedly failed to win a seat in the U.K. legislature, stepped down as party leader in March 2021. After previously stating he would not stand as an MP in 2024 in order to focus on supporting Do...
the coming year, announced in the King’s Speech. Charles III highlighted that the UK government will “legislate to … ban exploitative practices and enhance employment rights”, confirming that a new Employment Rights Bill is expected to be brought before the UK Parliament in the coming months...
Sturgeon has dismissed claims she will hold a "wildcat" independence referendum if her party wins a majority in the parliament. During a Scottish leaders' debate, Sturgeon said her aim was to make the case for independence through persuasion and not through an unsanctioned plebiscite. ...
As a member of Parliament you could reasonably expect robust challenge from constituents and members of the public Judge Tan Ikram He added: “His actions were completely out of character. Whatever the sentence you pass, it is not going to be anywhere near the sentence that will stay with Mr...
In 2016, the British Parliament passed the Investigatory Powers Act. This act grants United Kingdom intelligence agencies the power of surveillance, so there are chances that this permission can lead to snooping. National security agencies in the UK have a history of intelligence and collusion shari...
The European Parliament announced just before the Easter break that its members have approved three laws on implementing the EU’s “Own Resources system”, paving the way for the introduction of new sources of EU revenue. Once the system is ratified by
The UK parliament debates the future of public service broadcasting Ian thinks: Its good to see this discussion at this level but am concerned there isn’t more focus beyond broadcasting. Public service is much bigger and its time to bring what makes public service unique to this space. ...