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    £13m allocated for research into use of artificial intelligence in healthcare

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The Government has allocated a £13 million investment aimed at advancing research in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) within healthcare. The move, announced by Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan, coincides with the appointment […] More

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    Adopted children’s names removed from website following privacy concerns

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The names of thousands of people who were adopted as children were published on a Scottish genealogy website. Scotland’s People, run by the National Records of Scotland (NRS), removed the information 36 hours […] More

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    Lee Anderson: Diane Abbott forced to delete response to migrant drownings

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email MP Diane Abbott has prompted outrage by tweeting that migrants had “indeed f***ed off” – to the bottom of the sea, as she posted about a shipwreck in which 41 people died. The […] More

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    Tory rift after Rishi Sunak backs Lee Anderson over migrant f-word slur

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Rishi Sunak has been warned against turning the Conservatives into the ‘even nastier party’ after he backed his deputy party chairman telling migrants who don’t want to live on a barge they should […] More

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    Let 1,000 AI pilots flourish to help public sector, says Labour MP

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Letting civil servants profit from their own innovations could help Whitehall embrace artificial intelligence, a senior Labour MP has said. Darren Jones, MP for Bristol North West and chairman of the Commons Business […] More

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    Syrian refugee challenges his move to Bibby Stockholm barge

    A Syrain asylum seeker has challenged his move to the Bibby Stockholm barge on mental grounds.The man told Sky News he had come to the UK to escape war and conflict, but said the small rooms on the barge remind him of when he had to go into hiding from ISIS back in Syria.The man said: “We are looking for more space. We run away from war, trauma and conflict.“If you squeeze me into a place you are putting me back to that space where I was hidng when ISIS was attacking our area.” More

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    Russians blamed for shock cyber attack hitting millions of UK voters

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Russia is suspected of being behind the cyber attack on the Electoral Commission which left the data of 40 million UK voters exposed, sparking fears of an attempt to “interfere” with British democracy. […] More

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    Early election dilemma for Rishi Sunak as economists warn of recession

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Rishi Sunak’s dilemma over whether to call an early election has deepened after economists warned the UK is likely to be plunged into recession at the end of next year. A report by […] More