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The Transport Select Committee has been hearing evidence from experts about why sales of electric vehicles are not meeting government targets.

A year-long government funded study found that overweight men were more successful at shedding pounds when they were incentivised by cash and daily texts.

The launch of the new security service comes amid warnings of cyber threats to the UK from nation states and hostile actors.

Ministers express concerns over skills shortages in engineering, project management and design amid increasing global competition.

Downing Street responded that the priority of the education system should be British students and student visas ’must be used for education, not immigration.’

Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman also said that ‘no pandemic treaty is better than a bad pandemic treaty.’

The Association of Police and Crime Commissioners has welcomed plans to make naxolone more available and say there are 40 overdoses a week in the UK.

One of the most controversial police powers, stop and search allows officers to investigate their suspicions about an individual without having to arrest them.

Ms. Cates compared the digital world to lawless streets where children are exposed to violence and abuse, warning smartphones are damaging childhood.

The Foreign Office referred to activities including cyber attacks, reports of espionage links, and the issuing of bounties against dissidents.

An expert said the scheme benefits wealthier homeowners, channelling taxpayers’ funds towards those who are already financially capable of upgrading.

Grant Shapps says up to six multi-role support ships will be built to deliver commandos into coastal conflicts around the world.

Critics of the government’s early prison release scheme have argued that it increases the risk to the public, as well as the prisoners.

James Appathurai, a deputy assistant secretary general with NATO, tells Parliament’s Defence Committee of the threat China and Russia pose in the ‘grey zone.’

Stephen J. Shaw warned that failure to address falling birthrates could lead to intergenerational strife, shrinking communities, and societal collapse.

The number of unemployed people per vacancy in the UK has approached levels seen before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

David Cameron said it would not be ‘a wise path’ for the United Kingdom to halt its arms exports to Israel amid the ongoing war in Gaza.

The decision will ensure that standard safeguarding practices are observed in the House of Commons, MPs have suggested.

Hedley Rees said the process of allowing untrained volunteers to decant vials into individual doses could have caused ‘hot spots’ of vaccine damaged people.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the judgment ‘changes nothing’ about the government’s operational plans to send illegal immigrants to Rwanda this July.