Rishi Sunak will on Tuesday put himself on collision course with human rights campaigners with new migration legislation that he claims will “take back control of our borders, once and for all”. The illegal migration bill will include a “duty” on the home secretary to remove… Read Full Article Here FT
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UK prime minister Rishi Sunak arrived in Belfast on Tuesday to sell his post-Brexit trade deal for Northern Ireland to business leaders after the region’s main unionist party welcomed progress but said concerns remained. Sunak unveiled the so-called Windsor framework with European… Read Full Article Here FT
Rishi Sunak will on Monday claim he has negotiated “fundamental” changes to the post-Brexit trading regime in Northern Ireland as he seeks to end a bitter row that has overshadowed UK ties with the EU. The British prime minister and Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission… Read Full Article Here FT
This article is an on-site version of our Inside Politics newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every weekday Good morning. Something that hasn’t happened this week at the time of writing: a deal between the EU and the UK over Northern Ireland’s trading rules. Some thoughts below on […]
In their 18th century heyday, smugglers on the Kent and Sussex coast defied the harshest government measures and still controlled a fifth of Britain’s imports. In the end, it was neither the death penalty nor brutish customs officers that brought their trade to heel. Instead, the decline of smuggling can be traced to lower import […]
Rishi Sunak is facing a big test of his authority as he agonises over whether he can sell an outline deal on the Northern Ireland protocol to pro-UK unionist politicians in the region and Eurosceptic Tory MPs. After months of talks, negotiators have briefed the UK prime minister that a deal is taking shape to […]
Early on Sunday morning prime minister Rishi Sunak, at his constituency home in the Yorkshire Dales, received the report which sealed the fate of Nadhim Zahawi. It confirmed what opposition MPs, much of the media and countless voters had already guessed: that the Conservative chair had not behaved honourably over the handling of his tax […]
Rishi Sunak entered Downing Street promising “integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level”, but on Monday the prime minister faced claims he was failing to ruthlessly clean up British politics. Sunak’s Tory party chair Nadhim Zahawi remains in post — for now — in spite of revelations he paid a penalty to HM Revenue & […]
UK prime minister Rishi Sunak has asked his ethics adviser to investigate the tax affairs of Nadhim Zahawi in a move that raises questions about the future of the Conservative party chair. The government is confronting an ethics crisis on two fronts with BBC chair Richard Sharp facing allegations he helped Boris Johnson secure a […]
Components fitted to cars threaten to give China a huge intelligence advantage. The spyware also puts Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at risk of blackmail, warns the head of the Foreign Affairs committee. It comes after I News revealed the discovery of an IoT cellular module capable of being used as a tracing device. The component, […]