🔴 Rishi Sunak has vowed to tackle voter "apprehension" about Britain's future as he prepares to deliver his first major domestic speech of 2023.
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🔴 The Prime Minister will today use an address at 2pm to set out his big picture vision for the country, including a pledge to require all pupils to study some form of maths until the age of 18 telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/…
🔴 The address comes as the nation faces a number of significant challenges, with strikes on the railways grinding the country to a halt this week and growing concerns over the state of the NHS as it battles through a winter crisis
Rishi Sunak started his speech by immediately referencing the NHS winter crisis and public sector strike action. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/…
🔴 Rishi Sunak pledges to halve inflation this year
The PM has announced five new promises he is making to voters, including a pledge to halve inflation this year.
Follow our politics liveblog for updates ⤵️ #RishiSunak telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/…
🔴 PM says UK must 'strive for excellence' to 'build a better future'
🔴 Rishi Sunak promises crackdown on anti-social behaviour
Turning to tackling crime, Mr Sunak said that "by this spring we will have an extra 20,000 police officers" in place. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/…
🔴 Turning to education, Rishi Sunak said the UK needs to "reimagine our approach to numeracy" as he announced his plan to require all pupils to study maths up to the age of 18. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/…
🔴 PM plans to cut taxes 'as soon as we are able to'
Rishi Sunak was asked if he intends to reduce the nation's tax burden at the Spring Budget but he refused to be drawn telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/…
🔵Rishi Sunak has used his New Year big vision speech to name five “promises” that he wants his premiership to be judged against.
✍️'This is the year where that redefinition of Conservative Government must be successfully completed. Because if it isn’t, Jim Callaghan’s fate awaits Rishi Sunak,' writes @MrTCHarris.
Here's the latest on the global tech outage from reporter @matthfield:
Television channels, airports and banks around the world have been knocked offline in a massive outage causing Windows computers to suddenly shut down.
Sky News’s breakfast show was not on air on Friday morning, replaced by archive footage.
Downdetector, a website which monitors outages, reported sudden spikes in problems with websites including Microsoft applications, banking websites and airline apps.
On Ryanair’s website, the company urged passengers to arrive at airports three hours early blaming a “third party IT issue, which is outside Ryanair’s control and affect all airlines operating across the network”.
Our Senior Technology Reporter @GazTheJourno will be here from 1pm today to answer all of your questions!
Drop them below 👇
✍️ @GazTheJourno: Elon Musk has always wanted to create a company called X.
The first X was in fact an online bank he set up in the late 1990s - and its CEO was Peter Thiel. That company later became PayPal and was bought by eBay in 2002.
@GazTheJourno 🗣️ @GazTheJourno: Twitter’s blue bird logo has been with the site since its creation in 2006. Its branding has always been twee(t!), featuring the bird doing cutesy things including lifting up the fail whale on its ‘site over capacity’ page back in the 2010s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
🇺🇦 Elderly and vulnerable Ukrainians were taken into Russian territory, stripped of their citizenship, forced to give blood and left in agony from botched medical procedures, a Telegraph investigation has found.
🔴 Elderly and vulnerable Ukrainians were taken into Russian territory, stripped of their citizenship, forced to give blood and left in agony from botched medical procedures.
Oleg Andreev, 65, who is paralysed, was taken by Russian invaders occupying his village in eastern Ukraine. Mr Andreev said his wheelchair was stolen by a Russian soldier, who used it for an
injured comrade.
🇺🇦 Exclusive: Alexander Lukashenko implicated in alleged war crime as boys and girls as young as six are taken to camps in 'forced deportation'
Read this exclusive in full from @sophia_yan, @Nat_Vasilyeva, and @VerityBowman here 👇
@sophia_yan @Nat_Vasilyeva @VerityBowman It is estimated that 2,150 Ukrainian children have been taken to at least four camps in Belarus since September 2022, with numbers expected to reach 3,000 by autumn this year.
Three of the “camps” are in the Minsk region, namely the Ostroshitsky Gorodok Sanatorium, the Zubrenok national children’s educational and health centre, and Dubrava children’s camp. The fourth site is the Golden Sands Sanatorium in the Gomel region.
🔴NEW: The US was concerned about what would happen to Russia’s nuclear weapons during the armed coup staged by Yevgeny Prigozhin, an official has said.