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[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. LONDON — Boris Johnson may have coined the phrase, but Rishi Sunak hopes he’s the man who can finally claim to have “got Brexit done.” The British prime minister will on Monday host European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in what’s being…
[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] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. LONDON — Joe Biden’s “protectionist” Inflation Reduction Act won’t help the U.S. counter the rise of China and could create a “single point of failure” in key supply chains, Britain’s trade chief Kemi Badenoch warned. Speaking at a POLITICO event Tuesday night, Badenoch…
[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] LONDON — Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss argued the U.K. should have “done more earlier” to counter Vladimir Putin’s rhetoric before he invaded Ukraine, and said the West depended on Russian oil for too long. Truss — the U.K.’s shortest-serving prime minister who resigned amid market turmoil last year — was speaking in…
[ad_1] Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. There’s more bad news for Vladimir Putin. Europe is on course to get through winter with its vital gas storage facilities more than half full, according to a new European Commission assessment seen by POLITICO. That means despite the Russian leader’s efforts to…
[ad_1] Nicola Sturgeon is resigning as Scotland’s first minister in a move that stunned her pro-independence party and fired the starting pistol on the race to succeed her. The Scottish National Party leader — who has led the party and the country’s devolved government since 2014 — made the shock announcement at a hastily arranged…
[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….