London, Oct 27 Travel demand at London's Heathrow Airport, the biggest in the UK, will not return to pre-pandemic levels for several years, "except at peak times", due to the worsening global economic outlook, the Russia-Ukraine war and the impact of Covid-19. The airport said in a statement on Wednesday ...

London, Oct 27 Indian-origin Labour MP Nadia Whittome has deleted a tweet, which she posted earlier this week, saying Rishi Sunak becoming Prime Minister "isn't a win for Asian representation". Whittome was "instructed" to remove her tweet, a spokesman for Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer confirmed, after it drew backlash ...

London, Oct 26 Rishi Sunak on his second day in office as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, passed his first major test in the House of Commons, albeit not with flying colours. Sunak, who is of Indian origin, was confronted by the leader of the Labour party and ...

London, Oct 26 Greg Hands, the UK Minister for Trade Policy, called India an "economic superpower" and said an FTA would improve access to its "dynamic market", media reports said. He said the government is negotiating an ambitious FTA that "works for both countries" and that the "majority of chapters" ...

London, Oct 26 The opposition Labour Party's shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson said on Wednesday that Suella Braverman was back as the UK Home Secretary as the result of a "grubby deal" which helped Rishi Sunak "get over the line and become Prime Minister". Speaking to the BBC, she argued ...

London, Oct 26 The Liberal Democrats have called for a Cabinet Office probe into Suella Braverman's re-appointment as the UK Home Secretary after being forced to resign for breaching the ministerial code last week. Liberal Democrats home affairs spokesperson Alistair Carmichael said: "Suella Braverman's appointment makes a mockery of Rishi ...

London, Oct 26 UK's new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak kicked off a row by reappointing Indian-origin Suella Braverman as Home Secretary, just days after she quit over a technical breach of government rules. Braverman -- an outspoken critic of former PM Liz Truss's economic policy -- stepped down last week ...

London, Oct 25 Rishi Sunak has made the first appointments of his reshuffle by keeping Jeremy Hunt as UK chancellor and appointing Dominic Raab as deputy prime minister and justice secretary, after the departure of nearly a dozen cabinet ministers, the media reported. The new prime minister also re-appointed James ...

London, Oct 25 Less than a week after she resigned as Home Secretary, contributing to the fall of the Liz Truss government, Indian-origin UK Minister Suella Braverman has been re-appointed to the same role in the Rishi Sunak government. She is the first woman appointee in the new Sunak government, ...

London, Oct 25 UK's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will begin appointing his cabinet after being officially asked by the King to form a new government, media reports said. The new Prime Minister has promised to form a government of "all the talents" amid calls from senior Tories to appoint the ...