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    Rishi Sunak to hold live chat with Elon Musk during AI summit

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Rishi Sunak is holding a live chat with tech mogul Elon Musk during the prime minister’s artificial intelligence (AI) at Bletchley Park this week. Mr Sunak revealed that he would have a conversation […] More

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    Rishi Sunak sacks senior Tory aide for calling for Gaza ceasefire

    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 sacked a senior Tory from his government job as a ministerial aide for calling breaking ranks and calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict. Paul Bristow, a parliamentary private […] More

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    Tech firms vow to tackle ‘shocking’ AI-generated child sex abuse images

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Tech giants including TikTok and Snapchat have signed a pledge vowing to tackle the spread of artificially generated images of child sex abuse. Home Secretary Suella Braverman hosted the companies, as well as […] More

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    Suella Braverman attacks pro-Palestine protests as ‘hate marches’

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Home secretary Suella Braverman has condemned the pro-Palestine rallies held across the UK in recent weeks as “hate marches”. In her strongest attack yet on Palestinian supporters, the cabinet minister said the protests […] More

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    Andy Burnham warns Starmer: Don’t brand us disloyal for disagreeing with you over Israel

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Labour’s Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has warned Sir Keir Starmer it is “simply not possible” to have a clear party position quickly on the current Israel-Hamas crisis. Writing for The Independent, the […] More

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    Downing Street denies AI summit being snubbed by world leaders

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Downing Street has denied Rishi Sunak’s artificial intelligence (AI) summit is being snubbed by world leaders as US President Joe Biden is among those not expected to attend. The Prime Minister hopes the […] More

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    Bombshell week for Boris Johnson as former team prepare for Covid Inquiry

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Boris Johnson is facing a bombshell week as his top advisers from his time as PM are hauled before the official Covid inquiry. The ex-prime minister’s aides including controversial former chief of staff […] More

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    Sunak chairs Cobra meeting as police chief says Israel-Hamas war ‘accelerating’ terror threat

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Rishi Sunak is chairing an emergency Cobra meeting at No 10 amid fears that the conflict between Hamas and Israel could have increased the terror threat in Britain. The PM has gathered police and national security […] More