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UK to offer new visas for AI and life science workers, says Reeves
The UK government will publish an immigration white paper later this year including proposals to introduce visas aimed at high-skilled workers as part of its push to kickstart growth, Rachel Reeves has announced.
The chancellor told a breakfast event at the World Economic Forum in Davos: “We are going to …
UK borrowing unexpectedly jumps, piling pressure on Rachel Reeves
The cost of UK government borrowing unexpectedly jumped to £17.8bn last month, piling pressure on Rachel Reeves to plan budget cuts before a spending review in the summer.
The figure was about a quarter higher than the City had forecast and was up by £10.1bn more than in the same …
‘We’ve lost all hope’: Rohingya trapped as Bangladesh closes Myanmar border
In the dim light of his home in Arakan, Myanmar, Mohammed is talking above the wailing of his youngest child. All three of his children are hungry, he says. The 32-year-old Rohingya man’s parents, leaning together against the wall, are just visible as Mohammed speaks on the video call.
He …
Watchdog accuses HMRC of deliberately ‘degrading’ phone services
Parliament’s spending watchdog has accused HM Revenue & Customs of deliberately running down its phone services to force people to go online after finding the average call waiting time has passed 23 minutes – almost double the figure of two years earlier.
With people across the country working to finish …
China’s economic need and soft diplomacy spur about-face on visa-free entry
A few years ago, getting a visa to visit China was a “ball ache”, says Kate Murray. The Australian was going for a four-day trade show, but the visa required a formal invitation from the organisers and what felt like “a thousand forms”.
“They wanted so many details about your …
Jacinda Ardern says upcoming memoir aimed at ‘anyone who has ever doubted themselves’
Covid fraud squad will have power to seize fraudsters’ cash under Labour bill
An anti-fraud squad will be given the power to raid the properties of Covid fraudsters and recover taxpayers’ money from their bank accounts.
The new measures, which will be introduced to parliament on Wednesday as part of the fraud bill, will give the Cabinet Office’s Public Sector Fraud Authority the …
Brazil appoints veteran diplomat as Cop30 president for November summit
The surge in online violence makes declaring a terrorist incident more difficult than ever
As yet, those with the closest knowledge of the Southport case cannot answer these questions: what cause was Axel Rudakubana trying to advance and who was he trying to influence when he unleashed his atrocity? As such, police cannot declare it a terrorist incident.
The UK primarily combats the threat …
UK experts warn of dangers of violent content being readily available online
Six minutes before Axel Rudakubana left home to murder three girls at a Southport dance class,
he searched for a video of the Sydney church attack
in which a bishop was stabbed while livestreaming a sermon.That video from last April, which is still available online, was among …