カテゴリー: Foreign policy
Decision time is coming after Labour called in the planning application for the new building in east LondonIn 2018, a prime piece of real estate near the Tower of London that was once home to a Cistercian abbey and later became the historic manufacturi…
Activist Jagtar Singh Johal has been held in Indian prison for nearly eight years without full trial The sisters of the British-Egyptian human rights campaigner Alaa Abd el-Fattah have intervened for the first time since his release from prison in Eg…
Britain’s car and whisky industries set for boost while India gets visa concessions, but some sensitive issues unresolvedIndia’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, is visiting London to sign a landmark free trade agreement between his country and the UK, a…
Law firm representing thousands says some already killed and others in hiding as a result of government ‘blunder’Thousands of Afghans relocated to UK under secret scheme after data leakWhen Abdullah received an email from the British government saying …
Commons remain tone deaf as superinjunction lifts lid on data leak and £800m Afghanistan Response RouteI suppose we might have guessed something like this. In August 2021, the then foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, had moaned about the “sea being closed…
French president addresses MPs on topical issues, from commitment to Ukraine, to European connection and US tariffsUK politics live – latest updatesEmmanuel Macron, making the state visit by a European head of state to the UK since Brexit, has addresse…
Ukrainian president says two countries will deepen defence cooperation with the objective to ‘stop Russian terror’Ukraine and the UK are to deepen their defence cooperation by jointly producing long-range drones, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday afte…
Ukrainian president says two countries will deepen defence cooperation with the objective to ‘stop Russian terror’Ukraine and the UK are to deepen their defence cooperation by jointly producing long-range drones, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday afte…
Leaders of UAE, Qatar and Oman criticise attack and urge de-escalation as EU and UN call for immediate diplomacyMiddle East crisis – latest updatesCountries in the Middle East and beyond responded with alarm after US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites as…
Trip by five Labour MPs designed to build UK-Taiwan ties as Beijing steps up military capabilityA group of five Labour MPs is travelling to Taiwan for meetings with government officials for the first time since Labour came to power.The Labour Friends o…
Kanbar Hossein-Bor, who says his mother once feared he ‘might not be British enough’, lands Fiji post“In her mind this was a bastion of the establishment, she was a little worried of rejection,” Kanbar Hossein-Bor said of his mother’s reaction, two dec…
Row over exemption of national insurance contributions for Indian short-term workers overshadows deal A multibillion-pound free trade agreement with India has long been touted as a big Brexit boon.Cheaper clothes and shoes for British shoppers, a huge …
Britain and India have agreed a long-desired trade deal that ministers said would add £4.8bn a year to the UK economy by 2040. The agreement, which was finalised on Tuesday after more than three years of negotiations under successive governments, has l…
Deal could help UK industries hit by Trump tariffs, as ministers say it will add £4.8bn a year to economy by 2040 Britain and India have agreed a long-desired trade deal that ministers said would cut tariffs and add £4.8bn a year to the UK economy by 2…
Jagtar Singh Johal’s hopes of being freed on bail have been dashed for now despite being cleared of charges in one caseHopes that Jagtar Singh Johal, a British Sikh man held in an Indian jail for seven years, would be released on bail were dashed on Th…