Laura Kuenssberg

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Spending Review: Massive cheques from chancellor for some

2 weeks ago | bbc.com | Laura Kuenssberg

Spending Review: Massive cheques from the chancellor for some - but what do totals hide? Laura KuenssbergPresenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg•@bbclaurakBBCThe next few days are vital – "one of the last moments to weave it all together – to look politically credible to the people Labour has lost", one senior figure reckons. There have been huge fights inside government about the looming Spending Review.
Will strategic defence review meet the threats we face?

3 weeks ago | bbc.com | Laura Kuenssberg

Will Starmer's military review match the threats we're told we face? Laura KuenssbergPresenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg•@bbclaurakNurPhoto/ Getty ImagesDown a discreet road, on the fringes of a quiet home counties commuter town, is a set of grey buildings worth many hundreds of millions of pounds. In one, behind a secure fence, a handful of workers are on shift this weekend, making Storm Shadow missiles by hand.
‘It’s going to be ugly’ say Whitehall insiders

1 month ago | bbc.com | Laura Kuenssberg

'It's going to be ugly': Westminster braces for Spending ReviewLaura KuenssbergPresenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg•@bbclaurakBBCThere is a joke, of sorts, doing the rounds in Whitehall, that soon government will be "the NHS and the army with the rest just bolted on". For ministers fighting to keep cash to spend in their departments it's not that funny.
'It's going to be ugly': Westminster braces for Spending Review

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Laura Kuenssberg

EXCLUSIVEBrit woman, 21, rotting in Dubai hell hole jail without 'a shower for a month' after being arrested for drugs charges just weeks after arriving for new jobA recruitment consultant from Leeds has been locked up in a hell hole prison in Dubai for three months on drugs charges, MailOnline can …
Elton John brands government 'absolute losers' over AI copyright plans

1 month ago | bbc.com | Laura Kuenssberg

Elton John brands government 'absolute losers' over AI copyright plansBBCSir Elton John described the government as "absolute losers" and said he feels "incredibly betrayed" over plans to exempt technology firms from copyright laws. Speaking exclusively to Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, he said if ministers go ahead with plans to allow AI firms to use artists' content without paying, they would be "committing theft, thievery on a high scale".
Elton John brands government 'absolute losers' over AI copyright plans

1 month ago | bbc.co.uk | Laura Kuenssberg

"The House of Lords did a vote, and it was more than two to one in our favour," he said. "The government just looked at it as if to say, 'Hmm, well the old people ... like me can afford it.'"On Monday, the House of Lords voted by a 147 majority to amend the Data (Use and Access) Bill to add transparency requirements, which aim to ensure copyright holders have to give permission for their work to be used.
Laura Kuenssberg on UK-EU summit: What to expect on trade, immigration and defence

1 month ago | bbc.co.uk | Laura Kuenssberg

Stand by for a dazzling European event. Cameras everywhere. Famous faces. Red carpets. No, not Eurovision in all its noisy glory, but the first European summit of what the prime minister hopes will be a new era, where governments around the continent concentrate not on instant verdicts – douze points or nul points – but on creating long-term relationships that make life easier.
No sequins or dancing at EU summit - but it'll be an extravaganza nonetheless

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Laura Kuenssberg

Stand by for a dazzling European event. Cameras everywhere. Famous faces. Red carpets. No, not Eurovision in all its noisy glory, but the first European summit of what the prime minister hopes will be a new era, where governments around the continent concentrate not on instant verdicts – douze points or nul points – but on creating long-term relationships that make life easier.
After Trump tariffs, Sir Keir Starmer is to slow down and go faster

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Laura Kuenssberg

Laura KuenssbergPresenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg•@bbclaurakPrime Minister Sir Keir Starmer watched in his flat. Chancellor Rachel Reeves saw it in her study. The Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds, accompanied by staff and pizza, took in President Donald Trump’s big tariffs reveal on Wednesday from his office in Old Admiralty Arch, from where the British Navy was directed to protect and control trade on the high seas in days gone by.
Labour to unveil big immigration plans next week - but will they win back votes?

1 month ago | bbc.com | Laura Kuenssberg

Labour to unveil big immigration plans next week - but will they win back votes? Laura KuenssbergPresenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg•@bbclaurakBBC"A failed free market experiment" – that's how the home secretary will describe the approach that's seen vast numbers of people from around the world come to the UK to pour pints in pubs, to cut hair, to care for the most vulnerable, to pick fruit, or to fix our plumbing.