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    Families hold vigil at Barnard Castle ahead of Dominic Cummings’ Covid inquiry appearance

    Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Families held a vigil for Covid-19 victims at the site of Dominic Cummings’ eyesight-testing lockdown trip, ahead of his appearance at the UK Covid-19 Inquiry. Campaigners projected the message “231,332 Covid deaths – […] More

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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