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₹1 crore investment will strengthen our understanding of the threat posed by pro-Khalistan extremism and complement the joint work already underway between the UK and India," he said. "UK citizens enjoy the right to gather lawfully and demonstrate a point of view, but rights to lawful protest do not extend to violent or threatening behaviour," the British prime minister said.

UK opposition leader Keir Starmer likes to put his Labour Party front and center in his social media messaging. For Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, it's all about himself. The British premier is more than 25 times likelier to use the word «I» than name his own Conservative Party in posts on the social media site X, formerly Twitter, according to research by Bloomberg.

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak appointed Conservative MP and former energy secretary Grant Shapps as new defence secretary on Thursday following the resignation of Ben Wallace his position earlier today. Wallace was the longest-serving Tory defence secretary since Winston Churchill. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's office announced Shapps's appointment, around an hour after he was seen entering 10 Downing Street, reported AFP.

Vladimir Putin «must have killed» Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that there can be no peace negotiation with Putin on Ukraine, CNN reported. Johnson wrote in an op-ed, speculating about Prigozhin's last moments, a few days after a plane carrying the Wagner boss crashed in a field northwest of Moscow. The reason behind the plane crash remains uncertain, but the US and Western intelligence officials told CNN that it was deliberate. «It can't have been more than a few seconds between the explosion aboard the otherwise reliable Embraer Legacy 600 executive jet, and the moment the Russian thug blacked out in his vertiginous acceleration to earth; and yet in that instant I am certain that he knew with perfect clarity what had happened,» Johnson wrote, according to CNN. «He knew whose hidden hand was sending him 28,000 ft down, to be immolated with the rest of his Wagner group companions in a fireball in the countryside of the Tver region north of Moscow — and then on downwards, of course, for the shade of Prigozhin: down, down to Hades and the Tartarean pit below.» The former UK PM went on to say that the man allegedly «behind the killing of Prigozhin» was «the very same man who authorised, for instance, the poisonings in the UK of Alexander Litvinenko and Sergei Skripal.» «As the detonation sucked the air out of the aircraft's cabin, I would wager that the last thought in the doomed dome of Prigozhin's skull was 'Putin!', preceded by one of the many profanities in which the former jailbird and hotdog salesman was so fluent,» Johnson wrote, as reported by CNN. Prigozhin is believed to have died in a plane crash exactly two months after he instigated a brief uprising in Russia. Wheth

reality than their American cousins. So are the Democrats. The Democratic candidate in recent years closest to Ramaswamy in vibe — Ivy League credentials, weird ideas, a business background — was Andrew Yang.

Brexit proponents and even individuals linked to the "Partygate" scandal that played a role in his resignation last year were rewarded, Dorries' absence raised suspicions within Johnson's circle regarding interference from Sunak and Downing Street. Also Read: Rishi Sunak's 'Jai Shri Ram' slogan would have choked Lord Curzon: UK envoy Sunak's spokesperson informed reporters earlier that the assertion that the prime minister or officials expunged names from Johnson's list before its submission to a House of Lords vetting committee was "completely false." The dispute over the honours list in June led to the resignations of both Nigel Adams, who was also excluded from the list, and Johnson himself as Members of Parliament.

London flirt with the Labour Party, Rishi Sunak is rolling the dice that a shift to the right could keep his Conservatives in power. Read More: Tories Urge New Sunak Strategy, Cabinet After Election Losses When the British prime minister took office after the turmoil of Liz Truss’s seven-week tenure in 10 Downing Street, he assured voters and investors he was the responsible choice to manage the country. His pitch based on political and economic sobriety had a calming impact on financial markets. It has not translated into electoral support. The Tories barely clung on to Boris Johnson’s former parliamentary seat in northwest London in a special election this month and watched huge majorities vanish in two other constituencies. That bolstered forecasts that the party is heading for a landslide defeat in a general election expected next year. So Sunak is going on the offensive. According to ministers and Tory strategists interviewed by Bloomberg, the premier’s plan is to lean into controversial cultural issues that play on some voters’ emotions and create dividing lines with Labour and the surging party’s leader, Keir Starmer.

ULEZ) to outer London boroughs is lawful, dismissing the legal action launched by five Conservative-run councils. The expansion, set to begin on August 29, will charge the drivers of highly polluting vehicles £12.50 per day to incentivize cleaner transport alternatives and improve the city's air quality.

India and the UK in the defence and military technology sector and work as a catalyst to enhance bilateral cooperation in the sphere. The UK-India Defence and Military Technology Cooperation workshop, organised by the London-based think tank International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in partnership with India's Bharat Shakti defence platform on Tuesday, explored collaborative defence research and industrial production partnerships between the two countries.

Rishi Sunak said a local by-election victory by his governing Conservative Party showed that the outcome of the next national general election was not «a done deal.» «No one expected us to win here,» Sunak told reporters after his party unexpectedly retained a parliamentary seat previously held by former prime minister Boris Johnson. «Westminster has been acting like the next election is a done deal, the Labour Party has been acting like it's a done deal.

Johnson's old constituency in a setback for the main opposition Labour Party. The votes were one of the last electoral tests before a general election expected next year and had been seen as an indicator of the two main parties' prospects.

Rishi Sunak's Conservative Party won Boris Johnson's former parliamentary seat on the western fringes of London on Friday. The Conservative Party candidate, Steve Tuckwell, won the by-election with a majority of 495 votes.

This week, the UK will see rail strikes as workers demand significantly higher pay raises. From Sunday, workers on London’s fabulous metro are threatening industrial action. Earlier this month, it was the turn of doctors of the National Health Service (NHS), who rejected Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s offer of a 6% salary hike and are demanding 35% to catch up with what in developed-world terms has been runaway inflation.

UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said on Sunday that he will step down from the Cabinet at the next reshuffle, expected in a few months' time, after serving four years in the job. The 53-year-old Conservative Party member of Parliament since 2005 also told 'The Sunday Times' that he will not stand as an MP at the next general election, expected next year. Wallace has served as defence minister under three British prime ministers — Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak — and has played a high-profile role in the UK's response to the Russia-Ukraine war conflict. «I went into politics in the Scottish parliament in 1999. That's 24 years. I've spent well over seven years with three phones by my bed,» Wallace told the newspaper. «While I am proud to have worked with so many amazing people and helped contribute to protecting this great country, the cost of putting that ahead of my family is something I am very sad about,» he said. The minister is believed to have informed Prime Minister Sunak of his decision to stand down from the Cabinet last month.

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BBC suspends presenter over explicit photos claims.  The Sun newspaper, which first reported the claims, cited the young person's mother as saying that a BBC star paid her child over £35,000 ($45,000) for the images over a three-year period. According to The Sun article, the young person was 17 when the payments from the presenter started.

Bruce Springsteen is back in London this weekend to play at the BST Hyde Park Festival 2023. He already performed his first act on July 6, 2023, and even made a joking reference to his past at Hyde Park. When Springsteen performed at Hyde Park earlier, he had missed the curfew on stage and had the power cut as a result. His act with The Beatles’ legend Paul McCartney interrupted. At the time, Springsteen's guitarist Steve Van Zandt had tweeted that the singer was angry, and asked «when did England become a police state?». Boris Johnson, then Mayor of London, even criticized the authorities behavior as «an excessively efficacious decision». On Thursday, July 6, as Springsteen returned to play at Hyde Park at the BST Festival, he forgave London. The singer got onto stage just after 7 pm BST, and went on to play for three hours! As a reference to what happened in the past, 15 minutes before the show ended, he tapped his watch and said to his guitarist, «I think it's time to go home. I'm telling you, if we don't go, they're going to pull the plug on us again.» Then he changed his mind, just shrugged and screamed some expletives, and sang Glory Days. A crowd of 65,000 fans cheered Springsteen, including celebrities like tennis star Roger Federer, and singers Billy Joel, Bon Jovi, and Peter Gabriel. Bruce Springsteen performs for a second night at the BST Hyde Park Festival in London on Saturday, July 8, 2023.

Conservative Party staffers dancing and drinking at a 2020 Christmas soiree. The «jingle and mingle» party at Conservative headquarters was held when indoor social mixing was barred under rules imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus. The Metropolitan Police force said it also was looking into a gathering in Parliament on December 8, 2020 reportedly attended by members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords.

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is in the process of adding a historic country mansion to his property portfolio in a £3.8m cash deal, according to sources with knowledge of the transaction.

Rishi Sunak, Britain’s prime minister, is trying to do what none of his recent predecessors have pulled off: Move the U.K. beyond Brexit, shore up the country’s rickety public services and sell the country as a profitable destination for business.

After less than three months in power marked by crippling strikes and rising energy bills, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak articulated his vision for the country on Wednesday in a speech announcing the government's priorities in the new year.