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[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. LONDON — The U.K. and the EU finally reached a deal after months of talks over contentious post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland. Already, both sides are pitching it as a major reset in frayed relations — but U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak…
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. LONDON — It was clear when Boris Johnson was forced from Downing Street that British politics had changed forever. But few could have predicted that less than six months later, all angry talk of a cross-Channel trade war would be a distant memory,…
[ad_1] LONDON — Domestic abusers face stricter monitoring under a clampdown unveiled by Rishi Sunak Monday. The U.K. prime minister kicks off the week with a package of planned reforms aimed at cutting down on the “appalling” crimes, including new duties on a host of public bodies to keep track of and manage convicted offenders….
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. LONDON — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in London to meet the U.K. prime minister and King Charles III as Britain announces new training programs for fighter pilots and marines. Zelenskyy’s surprise trip includes a visit to see Ukrainian troops being trained by the…
[ad_1] LONDON — “Back to her old self again” was how one erstwhile colleague described Liz Truss, who made her return to the U.K.’s front pages at the weekend. That’s exactly what Rishi Sunak and his allies were afraid of. Truss, who spent 49 turbulent days in No. 10 Downing Street last year, is back….
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. WAREHAM, Dorset — Ukrainian fighter pilots will soon be trained in Britain — but Kyiv will have to wait a little longer for the modern combat jets it craves. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy left the U.K. Wednesday with a firm British commitment to…
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. LONDON — As nations around the world scramble to secure crucial semiconductor supply chains over fears about relations with China, the U.K. is falling behind. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the world’s heavy reliance on Taiwan and China for the most advanced chips, which…
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. LONDON — Whisper it softly, but the Brexit endgame has arrived. Eighteen months after Brussels and London reopened talks on the contentious Northern Ireland protocol — and more than three years after Britain actually left the EU — panicked officials on both sides…
[ad_1] LONDON — Public sector workers on strike, the cost-of-living climbing, and a government on the ropes. “It’s hard to miss the parallels” between the infamous ‘Winter of Discontent’ of 1978-79 and Britain in 2023, says Robert Saunders, historian of modern Britain at Queen Mary, University of London. Admittedly, the comparison only goes so far….
[ad_1] Rishi Sunak has fired Conservative Party chairman Nadhim Zahawi over a “serious breach” of U.K. government ethics rules relating to his tax affairs. Zahawi has been hit by weeks of damaging headlines over an investigation into his personal taxes carried out by HM Revenue and Customs. The party chairman and Cabinet Office minister was…