And Lord Ricketts, former national security advisor, after US president Joe Biden decided to send controversial cluster bombs to Ukraine.Stephen Flynn, the SNP's Westminster leader, as the party experiences turbulent times and a drop in the polls after a over 15 years in power.
Victoria Atkins, financial secretary to the Treasury, amid exceptionally challenging economic conditions.Rachel Reeves, Labour's shadow chancellor, who is hoping to take charge of Britain's struggling economy after the next general election.Sophy Ridge on Sunday is live from Westminster at 8.30am where Sophy will discuss the biggest stories in politics. Welcome back to the Politics Hub on this somewhat drizzly Sunday morning in Westminster. However, Mr Sunak publicly refused to back the move while speaking to reporters on Saturday, and pointed out that the UK is a "signatory to a convention which prohibits the production or use of cluster munitions and discourages their use". Mr Biden, who will be accompanied on his European tour by his Secretary of State Antony Blinken, called it a "difficult decision", but claimed he had to act because "the Ukrainians are running out of ammunition". Mr Biden's stopover in Britain comes ahead of a crunch two-day NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Tuesday, in which leaders are set to discuss the war in Ukraine and the future of the military alliance as several nations clamber to join.īut it comes as controversy grows over the White House's announcement that it will send cluster munitions to Kyiv, despite use of the bombs being banned by 123 nations across the world - including Britain. US President Joe Biden will fly to the UK today amid tensions over his decision to send cluster bombs to Ukraine.Īir Force One is expected to touch down at Stansted Airport this evening before Mr Biden meets Rishi Sunak in Downing Street and the King at Windsor Castle on Monday. They don't feel anything "special" about it. What seems to irk some British political leaders is that the US is treating the UK as it treats its other major allies in Europe. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre explained the president is coming to London "to further strengthen the close relationship between our two nations". Number 10 said it "reflects the strong relationship between the US and the UK". The two administrations issued unsurprising statements in advance of the Sunak-Biden date. Perhaps this is just as well since Biden has struggled with Sunak's name in the past and called him "Mr President" the last time they met. No joint press conference or major public statement is planned with either the prime minister or the King.
His visit to Windsor Castle on Monday will be the highlight of his brief stay in the UK. Yet, in this heavily scrutinised social media age, he is anxious to pay his respects to King Charles III, head of state to head of state. The president did not attend the King's Coronation - that is normal practice. Monday will mark the sixth meeting between Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and US President Joe Biden - and their seventh encounter in all as both were at official functions for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II last September during the Liz Truss interregnum. Leigh Day, the law firm representing 20 Tamil asylum seekers, has brought a claim against the secretaries of state for Defence, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and the Home Office, as well as Paul Candler, the commissioner for the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT). Only two have been told that they will be granted asylum in a "third country". The vast majority who have made asylum claims have been rejected but insist that it is unsafe for them to return to Sri Lanka, where the Tamil Tigers were defeated in a civil war 14 years ago.
Some have accepted payments to return to Sri Lanka, while others have made onward journeys to Reunion, a French Island. In total, 89 asylum seekers have since arrived in Diego Garcia. Several people have committed acts of self-harm or attempted suicide. Residents at the camp said the conditions were unbearable and reported cases of sexual and physical assault. Some of the migrants have spent more than a year-and-a-half on Diego Garcia, a British overseas territory, after the navy rescued their ailing fishing boat as it attempted a crossing to Canada in October 2021. Three British cabinet ministers are being sued by a group of Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers, who claim they are being falsely imprisoned in dangerous conditions on a small island in the Indian Ocean.
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