Rishi Sunak

Separatists are agitating to break up the United Kingdom

Owen Polley: Mingling of race and identity is toxic

Andy Burnham prepares to become prime minister on Monday

Boris Johnson’s and Rishi Sunak’s advice for incoming PM Andy Burnham

Andy Burnham says hospices must be “properly funded and sorted out” before any assisted dying law is implemented.

Burnham: Hospices must be sorted out before assisted dying law

Hadi Alodid, 30, appeared by video-link at Belfast Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday charged with the attempted murder of Stephen Ogilvie

Belfast suspect granted asylum under fast-track scheme

Jon Burrows was ratified as Ulster Unionist leader on Saturday. The UUP has been less successful than the TUV in exploiting the DUP’s weakness. Its message on the framework was confusing. Pic: Andrew McCarroll/Pacemaker

Owen Polley: UUP in better place than DUP to criticise hardening sea border

Morning View

Editorial: France's pointless promise to stop empty migrant boats

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch gives her keynote speech to the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester on Wednesday. The overall conference was quieter but not dead. Pic: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Ben Lowry: A quieter Tory event, for a party that's moved right – even on NI

The Chancellor Rachel Reeves meets the DUP deputy first minister of Northern Ireland Emma Little-Pengelly at Stormont and the Sinn Fein finance minister John O’Dowd. Michelle O'Neill, the SF first minister of NI, had previously been scathing about the sort of defence spending in NI that Ms Reeves had announced

Ben Lowry: Chancellor's remarks on NI defence industry should comfort unionists

It is illegal to sell disposable vapes in England

Steve Baker: Time for NI’s regulations to return to UK control

Boris Johnson, watched by Sir (now Lord) David Frost, signs Brexit withdrawal deal with the EU in January 2020 in Downing Street. For all the then prime minister’s pledges to protect the integrity of the UK, he left Northern Ireland behind in the EU orbit

Long read: Claims that border was removed were so misleading as to be nonsense

Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch has paid tribute to Tory grandee Lord Tebbit

Norman Tebbit dead: Top Tories on 'hero of conservatism'

Morning View

Editorial: Poignant to see Reeves, who is out of her depth, get emotional

Dua Lipa.

Dua Lipa the youngest person on under 40s Sunday Times Rich List

Morning View

Editorial: Labour sets out a hypocritical but necessary fiscal approach

Former Tory Northern Ireland Secretary made his comments to Cool FM. Photo: Cool FM.

Ex-NI secretary says Hilary Benn is '100% committed' to implementing DUP deal

Hilary Benn promised a consultation on bringing British packaging laws in line with EU requirements for chemicals. The government will also allow ministers to adopt EU laws and standards, supposedly to avoid divergence within the UK market, but as Lord Dodds argued it is an unreliable method of managing the Irish Sea border

Owen Polley: The Stormont Brake has proved, as expected, to be useless
The chief problem with the Northern Ireland Protocol, aside from checks and paperwork, is that it leaves many aspects of everyday life here, including trade, under EU law.
Owen Polley

NI manufacturing has always depended on sourcing its inputs from Great Britain. The truth is that you can’t really have dual market access anymore than you can have a square circle

Jim Allister: Calling out the economic costs of the Windsor Framework

Morning View

Editorial: Immigration has been at the heart of Nigel Farage’s success

Morning View

Editorial: Harland & Wolff rescue saves one of NI's most important companies

The DUP MLA Jonathan Buckley at Stormont as Assembly members voted on whether to continue with Northern Ireland's post-Brexit trading arrangements. All the unionists opposed it. Photo: Mark Marlow/PA

Ben Lowry: The full range of unionist MLAs united against the Irish Sea border

Northern Ireland is particularly vulnerable to this tax because land is so pricey here, even compared to wealthy southern England. The change has caused huge concern, and farmers filled the Eikon Centre at Balmoral Park

Ben Lowry: Ten thoughts about the farm inheritance tax row in relation to NI

Morning View

Letter: It is good to see Joe Biden give long-range missiles to Ukraine

Morning View

Editorial: Extra money for NI welcome, but Stormont must spend it wisely

Baroness Kate Hoey speaks during a anti-Northern Ireland Protocol rally in Ballymena County Antrim. Picture date: Saturday April 30, 2022

Stormont to hold ‘most controversial vote in its history’, says Baroness Hoey

DUP MLA Jonathan Buckley questioned Invest NI on Northern Ireland's 'dual market access' in Stormont's economy committee.

'Not yet' - Invest NI finally admits no evidence of dual market access benefits

Alex Salmond in 1995 during a debate following the Government's defeat on their fishing policy. The former Scotland first minister and current Alba Party leader has died aged 69. Picture: PA/PA Wire

Death of ex-Scotland First Minister Alex Salmond shocks political world

Show regulars Ian Hislop and Paul Merton

Friday TV choice: Have I Got News for You (BBC1, 9pm)
Friday: Have I Got News for You (BBC1, 9pm)
Rachael Popow

(left to right) Tory leadership candidates Tom Tugendhat, James Cleverly, Robert Jenrick and Kemi Badenoch singing the national anthem during the last day of the Conservative Party Conference at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham, when all four of them spoke to delegates. Wednesday October 2, 2024. Photo: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Ben Lowry: The Tories seemed surprisingly upbeat in Birmingham

Economy Minister Conor Murphy says Invest NI has “reported very significant interest in conversations with them" on dual market access - but Invest NI won't release FDI data relating to the Windsor Framework. Photo: BBC Northern Ireland.

Economist queries Stormont minister on 'dual market access' benefits

The programme for government will set out the priorities for the devolved powersharing Executive for the remaining two-and-a-half years of the Assembly term.

Stormont ministers meet to consider programme for government

Infamously, the DUP claimed to have got rid of the Irish Sea border through its Safeguarding the Union agreement with Rishi Sunak. After Gavin Robinson became leader, he acknowledged that his party ‘oversold’ its achievements. Photo by Jonathan Porter /Press Eye

Owen Polley: There's a risk unionists again repeat untruths on Irish Sea border

Public health interventions, like the Government's proposal to ban outdoor smoking, is "the type of thing that perhaps you would expect a government" to implement, education minister Baroness Jacqui Smith has said.

Government wants to make it ‘much more likely’ smokers will give up habit

Economy Minister Conor Murphy has said the Windsor Framework "opens up great potential to attract investment and grow trade on both a north-south and east-west basis". Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire.

No evidence backing 'dual market access' investment claims

There are now undoubtedly substantial costs to the Northern Ireland and GB private sectors in terms of moving goods from GB to Northern Ireland, writes Esmond Birnie

Esmond Birnie: NI Protocol – quite a lot of economic pain for little gain

Morning View

Editorial: There is a case for increasing the salary of MPs

Lifting the lid on the heart-rending, hard-headed decisions surgeons must make to save lives

Tuesday TV choice: Saving Lives in Cardiff (BBC2, 9pm, BBC1 Wales, 9pm)

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX

Tesla boss Elon Musk announces plans to introduce 'humanoid robots'

Letters to editor

Letter: Johnson, not Sunak, is responsible for Conservatives' election defeat

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer pictured in Parliament Buildings earlier today

PM thinks he can get a better trade deal for Northern Ireland

Preparatory clearing work began at the derelict Casement Park site earlier this year. Pic: PA Wire

New NI Secretary says Casement Park will be rebuilt, but no promise on when

abour leader and incoming Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and wife Victoria enter 10 Downing Street

Watch: Keir Starmer makes first speech as Prime Minister outside No 10

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria arrive at the headquarters of Camden Council for the count of the Holborn and St Pancras constituency in the 2024 General Election. Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Sir Keir Starmer set for No 10 as exit poll forecasts Labour landslide

Agape Centre polling station in south Belfast opens for the 2024 General Election. Picture: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

General Election voting under way after weeks of campaigning

View from the Chair with FSB NI’s policy chair, Alan Lowry

View: It’s important to find the box and put a cross in it for business

Morning View

Editorial: UK is set to buck trend and elect a pro immigration government

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris is set to address the Conservative manifesto launch event in Belfast on Saturday

Conservatives to emphasise benefits of Union at NI manifesto launch

Morning View

Editorial: Sunak was better in last debate but Starmer too far ahead to be hurt

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris

Heaton-Harris says he would place election bet if allowed

Artist's impression of proposed new Casement Park in Belfast

Heaton-Harris suggests Casement Park won’t lose out on chance to host Euro 2028

Casement Park GAA stadium. Photo: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Casement Park funding off agenda at NI Executive until after election

Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell. Photo: Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

King's Birthday Honours: Shot detective John Caldwell gets King’s Police Medal

Contractors with excavators clearing the concrete seating terraces at Casement Park GAA stadium in Belfast on 14 March 2024.Photo: Liam McBurney PA

Ulster GAA ‘remains fully committed’ to Euros at Casement

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage (left) was in punchier form in the BBC election debate on Friday than Sunak or Starmer on Tuesday. It is fair to hold to account politicians who claim to be conservative fail to govern by those principles

Owen Polley: Farage's right wing revolt against Tories who ignored their core

The deputy first minister of Northern Ireland Emma Little-Pengelly with the first Minister of Wales Vaughan Gething on the 80th anniversary of D-Day at the British Normandy Memorial in Ver-sur-Mer, France. The King, the prime minister Rishi Sunak and the Scottish first minister John Swinney were also there but not NI's first minister Michelle O'Neill. Pic: Gareth Fuller/PA

Letter: NI first minister doesn't go to D-Day events but well done to her deputy

Paul Young in Arromanches for the D-Day 80th commemorations

UK veterans delighted with warm reception in France, but not 'disrespectful' PM

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