Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Artificial intelligence (AI) could create “dystopia” if advancements in the technology are not managed properly, but its usefulness should not be overlooked, a Government minister has said. Paul Scully, minster for tech and […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Keir Starmer has said he will not repeat mistakes which “decimated” coal mining communities in the 1980s when his government phases out new oil and gas drilling. The Labour leader was told by […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Watch as Sir Keir Starmer delivers a speech at GMB Union congress on Tuesday 6 June. The leader of the opposition reassured the group that Labour’s plan to transition to clean energy will […] More
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 suggested he is willing to overrule the House of Lords and ram the small boats bill through parliament amid opposition to his plans. The prime minister hinted he was open […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The senior civil servant who oversaw the Partygate inquiry is expected is expected to join Sir Keir Starmer’s team this year after being given the green light by a government watchdog. Sue Gray is said […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The government is still being “too slow” to recover taxpayer money lost to fraud and error over the pandemic, MPs have said. The cross-party Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has also warned Whitehall needs […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Artificial intelligence (AI) could have the capability to be behind advances that “kill many humans” in only two years’ time, according to Rishi Sunak’s adviser on the technology. Matt Clifford said that unless […] More
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The UK was hugely unprepared for the Covid crisis because of years of austerity overseen by David Cameron and George Osborne, according to a new report. The Trades Union Congress (TUC) said that funding […] More
