Today the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson announced the opening of nine new diplomatic posts across the Commonwealth. The new posts, Lesotho, Swaziland, The Bahamas, Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Tonga and Vanuatu, will extend Britain’s … read more
Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Secretary-General, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. I am extremely proud to be welcoming you all to London – the first full Heads of Government meeting here in almost forty years. I want to begin … read more
Sellafield Ltd is investing £2.6m to convert a derelict transport exchange in Whitehaven into a £4.1m hothouse for tech, digital, media, and creative start-ups. The scheme, called the Buzz Station, is being funded by Sellafield Ltd’s owner the Nuclear Decommissioning … read more
Thank you very much, Mr Chairman, and we associate ourselves with the statement made earlier by the European Union. This first report of the International Impartial and Independent Mechanism is extremely welcome. It’s an important initiative from Lichtenstein and Qatar … read more
A Downing Street spokesperson said: The Prime Minister held a bilateral meeting with the New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern at Downing Street earlier today. They agreed the bond between the UK and New Zealand was unique and enduring, based … read more