カテゴリー: Rishi Sunak
China’s leader is gathering autocratic regimes to his banner, Europe and the US are divided over how to respond, and the French president just lobbed a grenade onto the field of international diplomacyIt is perhaps no surprise that Emmanuel Macron is i…
Income of Rishi Sunak’s wife from Indian tech firm to reach £13m for financial yearThe prime minister’s wife, Akshata Murty, will receive nearly £6.7m in dividend payments from her shares in the technology company Infosys this summer.India’s second big…
China’s foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin told reporters that the US, UK and Australia ‘are walking further down the path of error and danger’. The comments were made in a press conference in response to the Aukus partners’ announcement of a mu…
This blog is now closed.Penny Wong hits back at China’s claim Aukus nuclear submarines will fuel an arms raceGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastDaniel Hurst is out of the Aukus lockup – here is his first take.The m…
First of new vessels expected to be seaworthy by the end of 2030s, with Australia receiving theirs in early 2040sThe UK’s nuclear-powered submarine fleet could double in size as plans were revealed for the new “Aukus” vessels to be based on a British d…
Latest phase of Aukus scheme comes amid concerns about growing threat from ChinaRishi Sunak will fly to San Diego on Sunday to unveil plans for supplying Australia with nuclear-powered submarines under the Aukus scheme amid concerns about the growing t…
Sunak’s government has refused to echo assertion that Jagtar Singh Johal is being arbitrarily detainedRishi Sunak and the Foreign Office appear to be scaling back the UK’s support for Jagtar Singh Johal, the British Sikh activist held in an Indian jail…
The British citizen is awaiting trial on national security charges in Hong Kong that could see him jailed for life if convictedLawyers for the Hong Kong activist and media mogul Jimmy Lai have reportedly requested a meeting with the British prime minis…
Steve Brine said the restriction on people arriving from China to England was only required because Beijing was not ‘upfront’ about its dataThe requirement for travellers from China to England to provide a negative Covid test before departure could hav…
Department of Health confirms that from 5 January anyone travelling to England will be asked to take a pre-departure Covid-19 test Rishi Sunak has performed a major U-turn by imposing Covid checks on travellers from China from 5 January, after criticis…
From Xi Jinping’s first international appearance in three years to leaders snubbing Russia, here are the significant momentsThe G20 meeting in Bali signalled Xi Jinping’s emergence from three years of self-imposed pandemic isolation, with the French pr…
Prime minister says UK should not sacrifice quality for speed as he seeks to improve terms at G20 talksRishi Sunak has hinted he will slow down progress on the India trade deal to improve its terms, saying the UK should not “sacrifice quality for speed…
World leaders including Joe Biden, Xi Jinping and Rishi Sunak will attend summit being held during a war in Ukraine and a global inflationary crisisOn Tuesday, leaders of the G20 nations – the world’s major economies – will gather in Bali, Indonesia, f…
Despite Vladimir Putin saying he will not be at summit, attendees do not want to pose alongside deputy Sergei LavrovWorld leaders will not take part in an official “family photo” when they meet at the G20 in Bali next week because of widespread discomf…