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It’s election year in Europe, and with it come big promises - including help for voters in greening their homes. The Labour Party’s UK victory heralds a new era for climate action with a “rooftop revolution” aiming to triple solar power in the country by 2030. As well as approving three huge solar farms in east England that had previously been blocked by the Conservatives, the new government is offering grants and low interest loans to support solar panel installation on millions of homes. But, with green energy subsidies historically hard to understand or access for many, do they really make ...
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By Anmol Alphonso A 2008 speech of Labour Party leader Shahid Malik, praising achivements of Muslims in the United Kingdom is being shared with a false claim that he is the newly appointed 'Justice Minister' in the current United Kingdom government. BOOM found that the man in the viral video is Shahid Malik who served as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary in the Ministry of Justice till 2009. In the viral video, Malik can be heard talking about his involvement in getting assistance for Bangladesh, Pakistan, Palestine, Somalia. He further says, "I am proud of the achievements of Muslims in this ...
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After the last government became increasingly distracted from delivering for the British people, Labour’s landslide felt inevitable. PM Keir Starmer now promises "action not words", but we must see that focus turn on the environment. It’s no longer about paying lip service — Starmer must do everything in his power to preserve the natural systems on which we all depend. So far, Labour has hit the ground running on the energy transition — lifting the de facto ban on onshore wind, rejecting new oil and gas licenses in the North Sea and, as King Charles III laid out in his speech this week, settin...
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Britain’s new Labour Party government promised to calm the country’s febrile politics and ease its cost-of-living crisis as it set out its plans for “national renewal” at the grand State Opening of Parliament on Wednesday.
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The UK's Labour Party has set out its plans for Britain in the official State Opening of Parliament, overseen by King Charles III. In a speech written by government officials and delivered by King Charles III, the newly-installed government promised 'national renewal' and the easing of the country's cost-of-living crisis. Prime Minister Keir Starmer placed economic growth and the stabilisation of the UK's public finances at the centre of his legislative agenda, but warned change would require “determined, patient work and serious solutions”. He also says he won’t raise personal taxes and insis...
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EU citizens living in the UK are closely paying attention to their new government's next moves as freshly elected Prime Minister Keir Starmer seeks to rejuvenate and rebuild relations with Europe. At a press conference ahead of the unveiling of his full legislative agenda, Starmer emphasised the need for a better post-Brexit arrangement with Brussels than the one brokered first by Theresa May and then Boris Johnson. "We think we can get a better deal than the botched deal that Boris Johnson brought home," Starmer stated, "and we will work on that — understanding the work that needs to be done ...
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Several of Britain’s private equity managers and firms may be contemplating a move abroad, in anticipation of the new Labour government’s proposed changes to tax law. It's understood that the new chancellor, Rachel Reeves, wants to close a tax loophole that allows private equity fund managers to pay a lower capital gains tax rate of 28% on all profits earned, rather than the usual income tax of 45%. This is mainly due to private equity managers often investing their own money alongside businesses and entrepreneurs into funds, as well as accepting relatively lower salaries for years, until a fu...
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David Lammy, Foreign SecretaryA Member of Parliament (MP) for Tottenham since 2000, the 51-year-old Labour politician is poised to be Britain’s new Foreign Secretary and the first man of colour handling UK international relations at a time of unprecedented global tensions. Graduating from Harvard Law School in 1997, Lammy occupied ministerial positions under Tony Blair’s government between 2002 and 2005 covering health, culture, media and sport. In 2003, he endorsed Britain’s invasion of Iraq following the policy of the New Labour. In 2007, under Gordon Brown’s administration, Lammy covered in...
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Newly elected British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has settled into government after his party won a landslide victory last week. His cabinet, appointed on Friday, has set records for having the most female and state school-educated ministers in the UK's history. Meet some of his closest associates who are set to shape the UK government's policy in the upcoming years: 1. Angela Rayner, Deputy PM and Secretary for HousingAngela Rayner is in a unique position in Starmer's party in that she is the only person, apart from Starmer himself, who has been elected directly by the Labour Party. Born into...
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An overnight Russian strike left more than 100,000 Ukrainian households without power. The Ukrainian Energy Ministry reported on Saturday that the strikes in Northern Ukraine had cut off electricity and water in the region, as civilian casualties rose sharply in the country’s embattled east. The northern Sumy region in Ukraine, which borders Russia, was plunged into darkness as strikes damaged energy infrastructure. Local media say drones hit the provincial capital, also called Sumy, cutting off water by hitting power lines which fed its system of pumps. Russian media also reported that Moscow...
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