🔴 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.
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🔴 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.
🏠 Household bills are to be £500 lower than feared in the second half of this year after gas prices dropped to their lowest levels since before the war in Ukraine.
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🔴 Investec on Wednesday forecast that the energy price cap, which dictates what suppliers can charge customers, will be as low as £2,600 per year from July.
🔴 It would also be lower than the Government's energy price guarantee for the first time.
The guarantee means a typical household won't pay more the equivalent of £2,500 per year this winter but that is due to rise to £3,000 from April. telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/…
🚨 BREAKING: The former Pope Benedict has died in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican
"With sorrow I inform you that the Pope Emeritus, Benedict XVI, passed away today at 9:34 in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican," the Holy See spokesman said in a written statement
✈️Rishi Sunak has brought back Covid travel rules for the first time since all restrictions were lifted in February, with travellers from China required to have negative Covid tests
🔴The Prime Minister decided on Friday to impose the tests amid concerns that Beijing’s secrecy over Covid outbreaks was hampering global efforts to track potential dangerous new strains
✈️From Jan 5, anyone flying from China to the UK will be required to have negative Covid tests within 48 hours of their departure
🔴Romanian prosecutors said on Thursday they have detained Andrew Tate on suspicion of human trafficking, rape and forming an organised crime group
➡️Tate and his brother Tristan will be detained for 24 hours alongside two Romanian suspects, prosecutors from the anti-organised-crime unit said in a statement after raiding their properties in Bucharest telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴The Tate brothers have been under criminal investigation since April.
🚨 BREAKING: Pelé, the Brazilian footballer who became one of the most iconic sportsmen of all-time, has died at the age of 82
Family members had gathered at the Albert Einstein Israelita Hospital in Sao Paulo shortly before Christmas after news that his colon cancer had worsened and posted a series of pictures of their bedside vigil over recent days