Rishi Sunak set for talks with Elon Musk in No 10 as PM hails ‘landmark’ summit achievement
Elon Musk will head to No 10 for talks with Rishi Sunak after the PM’s AI safety summit ends formally today.
Global representatives gather for Sunak’s AI summit with threat of human extinction ‘potentially on the table’
Representatives of countries and big business will gather today for Rishi Sunak’s AI summit, as the PM seeks to lay the groundwork for the safe use of artificial intelligence. The AI safety summit will take place on Wednesday and Thursday and, while neither US President Joe Biden nor French President Emmanuel Macron are set to […]
From ‘Dishy Rishi’ to ‘Dr Death’: Sunak should fear the Covid inquiry
Rishi Sunak says he is looking forward to giving evidence to the Covid inquiry — he shouldn’t be.
Chris Whitty referred to Rishi Sunak’s ‘Eat out to help out’ as ‘Eat out to help out the virus’
During the proceedings of the Covid Inquiry yesterday it was revealed that professor Chris Whitty, then the chief medical officer, referred to the “Eat out to help out” scheme as “Eat out to help out the virus”. The scheme, launched by the Treasury and fronted by then-chancellor Rishi Sunak, subsidised meals in August 2020 in […]
Rishi Sunak warns of ‘new dangers and new fears’ to come with AI — PM’s speech as it happened
The prime minister has warned of the “new dangers and new fears” that will come with the development of Artificial Intelligence technology. It comes as the PM attempts to set the stage for the UK to host an AI safety summit at Bletchley Park next week. “The right speech for me to make is to […]
One year in, the Conservative Party has a problem: Sunak isn’t working
Today marks one year since Rishi Sunak replaced Liz Truss as Prime Minister. Anniversaries, generally, are junctures for those marking an occasion to collectively reminisce — as they consider the possible paths that lay ahead. Politically, therefore, depending on the context into which a special date is received, they can be moments of particular merriment […]
Week-in-Review: Rishi Sunak is running out of time
What was the point of Rishi Sunak? When he was gushed into Downing Street last year, he could not have been plainer: “some mistakes were made”, he remarked in reference to his predecessor, “I have been elected as leader of my party, and your prime minister, in part, to fix them”. After Liz Truss’ “restlessness”, […]
Sunak told Tamworth and Mid Beds results expose ‘serious mistake’ of net zero pivot
The Conservative Party lost the Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire by-elections with swings to Labour of 20.5 percentage points and 23.9 points respectively in a historically bad night for the government. In the aftermath, the losses of Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire are now being compared to British politics’ last slate of by-elections, namely in Uxbridge and […]
Rishi Sunak referred to as ‘Dr Death’ in WhatsApp messages seen by Covid inquiry
During the proceedings of the Covid inquiry today, a WhatsApp message was revealed which showed an exchange between Dame Angela McLean, chief governmental scientific adviser, and SAGE Covid-19 modeller Professor John Edmunds. According to the image seen by the inquiry, the exchange took place on 20 September 2020 and, in it, Dame McLean referred to […]
Rishi Sunak arrives in Israel for two-day visit as he warns against ‘dangerous escalation of conflict’
Rishi Sunak has arrived in Israel for a two-day trip to the country and the wider region to offer his support while warning against a “dangerous escalation of conflict”. The PM is expected to meet the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and president Isaac Herzog in Tel Aviv, before travelling to a number of other […]
