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Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email One of Britain’s most senior civil servants during the pandemic has revealed a cringe-inducing exchange with Matt Hancock in which he pretended to be a cricketer after she offered to help him with […] More

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Watch live as Britain hosts a global summit on artificial intelligence at Bletchley Park, inviting political leaders and tech bosses to try to agree an approach to the fast-developing technology. Losing control of […] 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’s Conservatives are losing more of their 2019 voters to the right-wing Reform UK party than to Labour, a shock new poll suggests. Only one in 10 voters (11 per cent) who […] 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 heaped praise on Elon Musk ahead of a cosy sit-down with the Tesla tycoon on Thursday night. The prime minister hailed Mr Musk as “passionate”, adding that he is somebody […] More

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email A Terminator-style “loss of control” over artificial intelligence is the greatest risk of the technology, the science secretary has warned. Speaking ahead of the second day of Rishi Sunak’s AI Safety Summit — […] More

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Labour has said it would urgently introduce binding requirements for companies developing powerful artificial intelligence (AI) after Rishi Sunak said he would not “rush” to regulate the technology. The party has promised to […] 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 said the UK will continue to work closely with Egypt and Israel to ensure more British citizens can leave Gaza safely. The prime minister thanked Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi for […] More