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Ahead of attending the G20 Foreign Ministers’ meeting, the UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly will be meeting his counterpart External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Wednesday as they are expected to discuss progress on the UK-India 2030 Roadmap that aims to bolster the two countries’ ties in defence and security, trade and investment. He’s visiting India to attend the G20 ...

Rishi Sunak has said his new Brexit deal puts Northern Ireland in a “unbelievably special position” because it gives the nation access to both the UK and European Union markets – making it the “world’s most exciting economic zone.” The prime minister, in Northern Ireland to promote his newly negotiated trade agreement with the EU, told firms there they should ...

  The Government streses the importance of family life, but families are failed by the Home Office’s migration policies and practice, which also undermine society, according to the House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee. In its report ‘All families matter: An inquiry into family migration’, published today, the committee says that current migration rules are at odds with ...

Rishi Sunak and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen are meeting in Windsor with hopes of thrashing out an agreement to tweak the Northern Ireland Protocol. Those close to the talks have suggested a deal is on the brink of being signed, with the prime minister potentially revealing it to MPs as soon as this evening. The Northern Ireland ...

Baroness Betty Boothroyd, the first and only woman speaker of the House of Commons, has died aged 93. The Dewsbury-born politician was the Labour MP for West Bromwich for 27 years and served as speaker of the House from 1992 till 2000. Current speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle led tributes to the straight-talking trailblazer, saying she was not only “an inspiring ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will on Friday tell G7 allies they must increase aid to Kyiv faster to give Ukraine a “decisive” battlefield advantage, a statement issued by his office said. “For Ukraine to win this war — and to accelerate that day — they must gain a decisive advantage on the battlefield Instead of an incremental approach, we ...

A British woman whose UK citizenship was revoked after she traveled to Syria as a teenager to join the Islamic State group has lost an appeal in her fight to have her citizenship restored. Shamima Begum, now 23, was 15 when she and two other girls from London joined the extremist group in February 2015. Authorities withdrew her British citizenship ...

Bangladesh High Commission in London has observed the ‘Shaheed Dibos (Martyrs Day)’ and ‘International Mother Language Day’ in a befitting manner with a call for observing the day as the ‘London Multilingual Day’. Bangladesh High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Saida Muna Tasneem made the call to London Mayor while speaking at a special discussion titled ‘Safeguarding Indigenous Languages through ...

A woman who was stripped of her British citizenship after joining the Islamic State group in Syria will on Wednesday find out if she has won her legal battle to reverse the decision. Shamima Begum, now 23, was aged 15 in 2015 when she left her home in east London with two school friends to travel to Syria. While there ...

The United Kingdom on Sunday underlined the importance of maintaining a level-playing field for foreign companies interested in investing and operating in Bangladesh. The UK invited Bangladesh to engage with the UK private sector to pursue a commercial dispute resolution system to unlock the full potential of Foreign Direct Investment into Bangladesh. At the Bangladesh-UK Trade and Investment Dialogue 2023 ...