11 h. ago Keir Starmer unveils plan to help one million schoolkids in major tech drive

The Prime Minister will announce plans to help around one million school-age children gain skills in technology under a new TechFirst scheme to help them learn AI and computing skills

Science

5 d. ago Brits threatened with 'painful' deaths in a nuclear apocalypse as Putin hits back at PM

After Sir Keir Starmer yesterday unveiled his defence review, one of Vladimir Putin's leading mouthpieces said he 'can't understand why the British have gone mad'

Events

7 d. ago Watch live: Starmer launches plan to ready UK for war as he warns of Russia threat

Watch live as Sir Keir Starmer launches the landmark Strategic Defence Review in Glasgow, unveiling new measures as the country moves to “warfighting readiness”.

Events

7 d. ago Keir Starmer to unveil strategic defence review and put UK on ‘war

Prime minister to launch strategic defence review in Glasgow this morningStarmer repeats his claim that he has an ambition to get defence spending up to 3% of GDP in the next parliament.Q: But “ambition” is not a commitment. I can have a commitment to lose weight. That does not mean it will happen.What you can take from this is, yes, that 3% but I am not, as the prime minister of a Labour government, going to make a commitment as to the precise date until I can be sure precisely where the money is coming from, how we can make good on that commitment, because I don’t believe in performative fantasy politics, and certainly not on defence and security.Nato has been the single most effective alliance for keeping the peace for 80 years, and our job is not just to celebrate that as we do, but to ask ourselves the searching question as I ask myself on a daily basis, which is, how do we ensure that Nato preserves the peace for decades to come for this generation? Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Minister's confusion on funding betrays the disarray at the heart of the MoD, by former British Army colonel PHILIP INGRAM

Keir Starmer is unveiling his Strategic Defence Review with great fanfare. It has been billed as a 'root and branch review' of our military policy, pointing the way to 'a new era for defence'.

Politics

7 d. ago Keir Starmer to announce huge nuclear submarine expansion as UK told to be ready for war

Keir Starmer will make the announcement as he unveils the Government's new Strategic Defence Review, which is expected to recommend the Armed Forces move to warfighting readiness

Events

8 d. ago UK to spend £1.5bn on new weapons factories in response to threat posed by Putin

Labour defence secretary John Healey and prime minister Keir Starmer to unveil new strategic defence review as war rages on the edge of Europe

Economics

2 w. ago Keir Starmer says Brits are 'tired' of Brexit rows as he faces backlash over 'blank cheque' EU deal

Making a statement to MPs, Keir Starmer argued that the package he unveiled alongside beaming EU commission chief Ursula von der Leyen would 'drive down bills and drive up jobs'.

Economics

2 w. ago Starmer’s Brexit reset deal hailed for ‘turning page’ on relations with EU

Sir Keir Starmer unveils his third major international deal this month as he puts pen to paper for a Brexit reset which removes trade barriers and red tape and creates a new defence cooperation with the EU

Economics

3 w. ago EU talks to go through the night as UK's Brexit reset deal hits snags

British negotiators are locked in talks with EU counterparts over 'outstanding issues' with a landmark deal expected to be unveiled by Keir Starmer on Monday

Economics

3 w. ago Government eyes advanced tech drive to prepare armed forces for the challenges of modern warfare

The Government's strategic defence review, to be published shortly, will learn the lessons of the war in Ukraine to herald a major change of direction.

Events

3 w. ago Haggling on Starmer's Brexit 'reset' goes to wire: EU demands fresh concessions on youth 'free movement', fishing and taking Brussels rules to end 'sausage wars'

Keir Starmer is hoping to unveil an 'ambitious' new relationship with Ursula von der Leyen in London , boosting trade and security.

Politics

4 w. ago 'This plan means migration will fall. That's a promise': Keir Starmer unveils immigration crackdown

The Prime Minister said tougher restrictions were needed, warning that Britain risked becoming 'an island of strangers'

Politics

4 w. ago Keir Starmer unveils immigration crackdown as PM promises to tighten 'every area of system'

The Prime Minister is setting out Labour’s sweeping plan to cut net migration into the UK at a press conference on Monday morning

Politics

4 w. ago For Silicon Valley, AI isn’t just about replacing some jobs. It’s about replacing all of them | Ed Newton

AI will do the thinking, robots will do the doing. What place do humans have in this arrangement – and do tech CEOs care?I recently found myself at a dinner in an upstairs room at a restaurant in San Francisco hosted by a venture capital firm. The after-dinner speaker was a tech veteran who, having sold his AI company for hundreds of millions of dollars, has now turned his hand to investing. He had a simple message for the assembled startup founders: the money you can make in AI isn’t limited to the paltry market sizes of previous technology waves. You can replace the world’s workers – which means you can capture their salaries. All of them.Replacing all human labour with AI sounds like the stuff of science fiction. But it is the explicit aim of a growing number of the tech elite – and these are people who lack neither drive nor resources, who have deep pockets and even deeper determination. If they say they want to automate all labour, we should take them at their word.Ed Newton-Re...

Politics

4 w. ago Starmer to tighten immigration rules as anger over 'failed open borders experiment' grows

Prime Minister Keir Starmer will unveil plans to tighten immigration rules, confronting an issue that has bedeviled successive governments and fueled the rise of a new anti-immigrant party

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4 w. ago Keir Starmer to give urgent immigration press conference over 'failed open borders'

Prime Minister Keir Starmer will unveil plans to tighten immigration rules, confronting an issue that has bedeviled successive governments and fueled the rise of a new anti-immigrant party

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4 w. ago Labour's immigration crackdown criticised for not containing cap on numbers as Keir Starmer set to unveil plan in full that will mean arrivals will have to 'earn the right to stay' in Britain

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the plan would mean a 'substantial' drop on last year's net migration figure of 728,000, but refused to put a cap on numbers, saying it was a 'failed approach'.

Politics

4 w. ago UK government to tighten immigration rules amid voter anger over ‘failed experiment in open borders’

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will on Monday unveil plans to tighten immigration rules, confronting an issue that has bedeviled successive governments and fueled the rise of a new anti-immigrant party that could threaten the country’s political establishment

Politics