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Sunak holds a press conference on the Rwanda asylum plan, 22 April 2024. Sunak meeting Rwandan president Paul Kagame in Downing Street. In 2019 the Conservative Party and Boris Johnson pledged to reduce net migration below 250,000 per year, but Sunak said in 2023 that the priority was not to reduce legal immigration but to stop illegal ...
In total, nearly half of Sunak’s MPs failed to vote in favor of the plan, an astonishing open display of division for the Conservatives, who used to call themselves the natural party of government.
Mr Sunak and Ms Keegan have struggled to answer questions on the full scale of the RAAC problem – but both admitted that hundreds more schools in England could be affected by crumbling concrete ...
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak apologized Friday for leaving D-Day 80th anniversary commemorations early to give a general election interview as he tries to beat Keir Starmer's Labour Party.
Sunak with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, Israel, 19 October 2023. In October 2023, Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel that devolved into a war and a growing humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. Sunak pledged the UK's support for Israel and declared that Israel "has an absolute right to defend itself". [110]
Sunak appointed new officeholders to the portfolios held by the eleven cabinet ministers who lost their seats in the election, including Edward Argar, who became shadow justice secretary after the outgoing justice secretary Alex Chalk lost his seat, as well as Helen Whately, who became shadow transport secretary after the outgoing transport ...
Sunak is also under fire over several issues the right wing of his party feels he has done little to resolve - stopping migrant arrivals across the Channel, cutting taxes significantly and ...
Rishi Sunak was appointed Chief Secretary to the Treasury by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on 24 July 2019, and Sajid Javid was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer.Tensions between 10 Downing Street and the Treasury had come to a head in August 2019, when Johnson's Chief Special Adviser Dominic Cummings dismissed one of Javid's aides, Sonia Khan, without Javid's permission and without ...