Laura Kuenssberg Presenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg•@bbclaurak BBC On a normal weekend, MPs might try to snatch a bit of downtime, or squeeze in a game of pin the tail on the donkey at a constituency summer fete. Ministers might be ploughing through documents in their red box, or rehearsing the next round of “lines...
Syria’s Islamist-led interim government has decreed that women must wear burkinis – a swimsuit that covers the body except for the face, hands and feet – or other “decent” clothes at public beaches and swimming pools. The regulations, issued by the tourism ministry, were “aimed at enhancing public safety standards and preserving public decency”, Syrian...
They are not referring to the hundreds of thousands of migrants–legal and illegal–who have poured out into the streets to protest in support of Hamas. Nope. The UK government has labeled British citizens as supporters of extremist terrorist ideologies if they believe that Western Culture is under threat from the flood of migrants who spend...
Alice Cunningham BBC News, Suffolk Sizewell C The government has said it will invest £14.2bn into the Sizewell C nuclear power plant The government has committed £14.2bn of investment to build the new Sizewell C nuclear plant on the Suffolk coastline, ahead of the Spending Review. It will create 10,000 direct jobs, thousands more in...
Exeter has been named as one of three local authorities helping to develop a powerful new AI tool as part of the government’s wider ambition to use artificial intelligence to drive national growth, modernise public services, and improve lives. Planning permissions will be sped up as the Government rolls out the new AI tool which...
The government is considering introducing tougher online safety measures to limit the amount of time children can spend on social media, the BBC understands. Proposals include a two-hour cap on the use of individual social media apps and a 22:00 curfew, as first reported by the Sunday People and the Mirror. Appearing on the BBC’s...
BBC The strategising and multi-year planning going on ahead of this week’s Spending Review is the bread and butter of any well-run economy. A Spending Review shows how resources are being allocated between departments and so indicates the government’s “when-push-comes-to-shove” priorities. But this time it will be a “different sort of Spending Review”, the chancellor’s...
Getty Images The government is struggling to cut the amount of foreign aid it spends on hotel bills for asylum seekers in the UK, the BBC has learnt. New figures released quietly by ministers in recent days show the Home Office plans to spend £2.2bn of overseas development assistance (ODA) this financial year – that...
Five leaders of far-right group the Proud Boys, who were convicted in connection to the 6 January, 2021 Capitol riot, have sued the US government for $100 million (£74m), claiming that their rights were violated during their prosecution. The five were convicted of plotting and taking part in the riot to overturn President Donald Trump’s...
One year ago, after winning the Dutch elections while forfeiting his right to be Prime Minister in order to get a coalition government formed, populist ‘far-right’ politician Geert Wilders thought all the ducks were in line to begin a shift away from what he felt were many of the ruininous European Union policies, particularly their...
Tom Edgington and Rob England BBC Verify BBC Good weather and the willingness of people smugglers to cram more people onto small boats have been highlighted by the government as factors driving the level of migrant Channel crossings. The Home Office has released figures showing that the number of “red days” – when conditions are...
Far-right Dutch leader Geert Wilders has withdrawn his party from the government, bringing down the governing coalition after less than a year. The move – which was brought on by a row over immigration – will now likely usher in snap elections. Prime Minister Dick Schoof had made a last-minute appeal to coalition party leaders...
In April, Nandy said the 68-year-old sports media rights executive was the “outstanding candidate” to fill the position, despite not being on the original three-person shortlist. She has now removed herself from the final decision, delegating responsibility to the Sports Minister. Last month, Kogan told MPs on the Culture, Media and Sport Committee (CMS) during...
The government will spend £1.5bn on at least six new munitions and explosives factories to “better deter our adversaries”, Defence Secretary John Healey has said. The factories will support up to 7,000 UK-built long-range weapons and create about 1,800 new jobs, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said. The announcement is part of the government’s Strategic...
A US government report on children’s health cited “totally fabricated” studies to back up its findings, academics wrongly listed as the authors of those studies have said. First released on 22 May, the report detailed causes of a “chronic disease crisis” among children in the US. An amended version was issued on 29 May after...