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Sunak visited Ukraine on 12 January 2024 to sign a new U.K.-Ukraine Agreement on Security Cooperation with Zelenskyy promising £2.5 billion in military aid to Ukraine, including long-range missiles, artillery ammunition, air defence and maritime security, in addition to £200 million to be spent on military drones, making the UK the largest ...
Starmer was born Victoria Alexander in either 1973 or 1974 in London. Along with an elder sister, she was raised in Gospel Oak, London. [1] Her father Bernard, an economics lecturer and chartered accountant, was born in 1929 to a Polish-Jewish family that emigrated to the United Kingdom prior to the Second World War while her mother Barbara (died 2020) was a community doctor in the National ...
Data from the Office for National Statistics indicates the UK economy grew by 0.2% in January 2024, largely fuelled by retail sales, both in the High Street and online. [258] Sunak tells Prime Minister's Questions he will not return £10m donated to the Conservative Party by Frank Hester, because he has apologised and "his remorse should be ...
3 February 2024 (11 months ago) () Sinn Féin [3] Deputy First Minister: Emma Little-Pengelly: Democratic Unionist Party Scotland: First Minister: John Swinney: 8 May 2024 (8 months ago) () Scottish National Party [4] Wales: First Minister: Eluned Morgan: 6 August 2024 (5 months ago) () Welsh Labour [5]
March 10, 2024. To celebrate UK Mother's Day, Kensington Palace released a photograph of the Princess of Wales and her three children, taken by Prince William—a photo that quickly turned into a ...
Barack Obama. Carl Court/Getty Images Barack Obama traveled across the pond to pay a visit to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. The former United States president, 62, gave a quick wave as he ...
The 2024 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 4 July 2024, to elect 650 members of Parliament to the House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The opposition Labour Party, led by Keir Starmer, defeated the governing Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, in a landslide victory.
Starmer giving his first speech as prime minister at 10 Downing Street, 5 July 2024 As the leader of the majority party in the House of Commons, Starmer was appointed as prime minister by King Charles III on 5 July 2024, becoming the first Labour prime minister since Gordon Brown , the first one to win a general election since Tony Blair , and ...