NEW DELHI: A day after UK PM Rishi Sunak announced the date of general elections to be held on July 4, a pre-poll survey indicated that 43% of the respondents feel that Labour leader Keir Starmer would make a better prime minister than Rishi Sunak.The online Survation poll on voting intentions conducted on Wednesday and … Read more
Official figures confirmed Britain’s economy entered a shallow recession last year, leaving Prime Minister Rishi Sunak with a challenge to reassure voters that the economy is safe with him before an election expected later this year. Gross domestic product shrank by 0.1% in the third quarter and by 0.3% in the fourth quarter, unchanged from … Read more
By Jill Lawless | Associated Press LONDON — Beleaguered British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Friday urged voters, and his restless party, to stick with him after two English districts elected opposition-party lawmakers in seats that Sunak’s Conservatives had held for years. The results will worsen fears among Conservatives that, after 14 years in power, … Read more
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak suffered two heavy blows to his leadership ahead of a general election later this year as the Opposition Labour Party overturned strong Conservative majorities to win by-elections in England on Friday. Labour’s Dan Egan won the House of Commons seat of Kingswood, south-west England, and the party’s Gen Kitchen won … Read more
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is expected to call a general election at some point in 2024, but exactly when is becoming a source of increasingly fevered speculation among political observers. When is the vote due? The maximum term of a UK parliament is five years. The last nationwide vote took place on December 12, … Read more
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday apologised to the families who lost loved ones in the COVID-19 pandemic as he opened his evidence to an ongoing public inquiry in a tough week, which will also see him tackle a feared revolt over a parliamentary vote on his Rwanda policy to deport illegal migrants. The … Read more
In the spring of 2022, Rishi Sunak, then UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, pored over details of a tough new immigration policy devised by then PM Boris Johnson and home secretary Priti Patel: to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda. Sunak and his Treasury team didn’t think much of the policy, privately raising concerns with Downing … Read more
LONDON: A defiant British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak appealed to his Conservative Party on Thursday to unite behind his plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, warning colleagues that if he toughened it any further the whole scheme could collapse.Sunak is facing the biggest challenge to his year-long tenure as he tries to stop lawmakers … Read more
LONDON: Prime minister Rishi Sunak on Monday announced £29.5 billion ($37.2 billion) of private funding for new UK projects as more than 200 CEOs descended on London for the 2023 Global Investment Summit.The UK government said the new investment would create 12,000 jobs “in our most innovative sectors, including tech, life sciences, renewables, housing and … Read more
British finance minister Jeremy Hunt said on Wednesday he would cut taxes for workers before an expected 2024 election and he gave businesses permanent investment incentives in a bid to speed up an economy that looks stuck in a slow growth rut. Hunt announced big increases in welfare payments and the state pension alongside a … Read more