EU AI Act: What does it mean for UK business post-Brexit? March 14, 2024 The EU AI Act, aimed at controlling AI systems on a risk-based approach, gained an overwhelming majority in favour, with 523 votes.
Post Office: Law quashing convictions needs ‘legally binding’ redress deadline, MPs say March 13, 2024 The government’s new law to quash the wrongful convictions of sub-postmasters affected by the Post Office Horizon IT scandal should have a “legally binding” redress timeframe, MPs have said.
UK government moves to block Telegraph deal and foreign takeovers March 13, 2024 The amendment may derail the proposed £600m purchase of the Telegraph by an Abu Dhabi-backed investment fund.
Hunt doubles down on ‘long term ambition’ to abolish National Insurance March 13, 2024 Jeremy Hunt today doubled down on his "long term ambition" to abolish employee National Insurance, but economists were doubtful that the measure will ever be implemented.
Football regulator must be radical not ‘damp squib’, warns former FA chief Bernstein March 13, 2024 David Bernstein says the government could 'snatch defeat from the jaws of victory'.
‘Lab to fab’: Semiconductor firms welcome UK entry to EU chip research scheme March 13, 2024 Semiconductor firms have welcomed the UK’s entry to an EU funding pot for collaboration on “critical” chip research.
PMQs sketch: ‘Healer’ Sunak’s medicine proves placebo for fractious Tories March 13, 2024 With headlines dominated by Tory mega-donor Frank Hester’s racist abuse of former Labour MP Diane Abbott, “is he proud”, Starmer asked, “to be bankrolled” by him?
UK economy takes first steps out of recession as growth returns in January March 13, 2024 The figures will raise hopes that the UK is already moving out of the shallow recession it fell into in the second half of last year.
Post Office: Wronged victims to be exonerated under fresh law March 13, 2024 Wrongfully convicted postmasters are set to be exonerated via a fresh law aimed at clearing the names of those caught up in the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, ministers announced.
‘Texas Hold ‘Em’: Badenoch to ink trade MOU with 9th largest economy in the world March 13, 2024 Kemi Badenoch will sign a trade pact with Texas as the UK continues to chase state-level deals in the absence of a national US agreement.
