Britain faces a future of “Big Brother is watching you” style cameras tracking drivers so they can be billed for using roads as the government’s policy decisions to incentivise electric vehicles (EVs) means it stands to miss out on billions of pounds of tax money from drivers a year.
Legislative proposals to give terminally ill people in England and Wales the choice to end their life are to be introduced at Westminster this month following the progress Thursday of an assisted dying bill in Parliament.
Teachers, healthcare professionals, and local officials in Britain may become legally obligated to report young men to the government’s Prevent counter-terror programme in the same manner as Islamic terrorism or far-right radicalism if they are suspected of “extreme misogyny,” The Telegraph reports.
Ukraine will be able to use advanced British-supplied cruise missiles to strike targets inside Russia itself, the UK’s new left-wing Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said in Washington at the NATO summit.
Polls have closed in the UK General Election, and the nationwide exit poll says the Labour Party has won around 410 seats nationwide, replacing the Conservatives after 14 wasted years.
The United Kingdom will be engaged in “military efforts to deter Russian attacks” over the Black Sea, the Prime Minister’s Office has said, as the government condemns the Kremlin for damaging global food security.
Politicians of South Asian Heritage seem to be having a moment in the British Isles, with politicians claiming Indian and Pakistani history holding several of the most powerful political offices in the islands.
Buckingham Palace has announced the death of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, aged 96, ending her 70-year reign.
The Queen died at Balmoral, her private Scottish home this afternoon at the age of 96. She was Britain’s longest-ever reigning Monarch, at 70 years and 214 days.
Liz Truss became U.K. prime minister on Tuesday and immediately confronted the enormous task ahead of her amid increasing pressure to curb soaring prices, ease labor unrest and fix a health care system burdened by long waiting lists and staff shortages.
At the top of her in-box is the energy crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which threatens to push energy bills to unaffordable levels, shuttering businesses and leaving the nation’s poorest people shivering in icy homes this winter.
British law enforcement officials placed a man in handcuffs late last week for allegedly retweeting a post on Twitter that made another person anxious.
The next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom will either be former Chancellor Rishi Sunak or Foreign Minister Liz Truss, both long-term allies of outgoing leader Boris Johnson, associates of the World Economic Forum, and representing a basic status-quo position rather than one of change.
Boris Johnson announced plans to resign as prime minister of the United Kingdom on Thursday in a tumultuous end for a government that once enjoyed a strong democratic mandate.