Rishi Sunak Latest Celebrity News & Gossip

An emergency communication tool dubbed the 'armageddon alert' system will reportedly be rolled out in the next few weeks. Millions of people will hear a loud alarm from their mobile phones as the system is tested, the Mirror reports.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has spoken out after Gary Lineker was dropped from his role on Match of the Day. The row broke out earlier this week after the former England striker took to social media to hit out at Government plans to stop small boats making the journey to Britain.

Rishi Sunak said he would not hand honours to family members in a thinly-veiled swipe at Boris Johnson’s reported plans to knight his father. Mr Johnson, who was forced out of Downing Street last September following a series of scandals, is said to have included Stanley Johnson as one of as many as 100 names put forward for honours.

Queen Consort Camilla has revealed she was gripped by BBC crime drama Happy Valley as she celebrated International Women’s Day with its star and a host of inspiring individuals on Wednesday. Actress Sarah Lancashire was invited to the Buckingham Palace event alongside the 2021 Strictly Come Dancing winner and EastEnders actress Rose Ayling-Ellis, Love Island star Megan Barton-Hanson and former Tehran prisoner Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.

A Scots charity legend who scaled mountains and crossed deserts to earn his MBE has blasted Boris Johnson’s plans to knight his dad as a “slap in the face”.

Gary Lineker has sparked a BBC impartiality row after branding the Tories' latest plan to imprison asylum seekers entering the UK as 'beyond awful' in a post on social media.

Suella Braverman said it would “betray” British voters not to tackle the “waves of illegal migrants breaching our border” as she unveiled plans for new laws to crack down on Channel crossings.

Matt Hancock told aides he wanted to “frighten the pants off everyone” about the Kent variant of Covid to ensure compliance with lockdown rules, leaked messages have revealed. The latest set of WhatsApp exchanges show the then-health secretary and others discussing how to use an announcement about the variant to scare the public into changing their behaviour. The messages, among 100,000 passed to the Telegraph by journalist Isabel Oakeshott, show cabinet secretary Simon Case suggested in January 2021 that the “fear” factor would be “vital”.

As Prime Minister Rishi Sunak plans to host a big lunch at Downing Street in honour of the King’s Coronation, Brits are being encouraged to share their plans for the Bank Holiday weekend so that others can get involved in the festivities.

This week has seen Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announce that a new deal had been agreed with President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen to help ease post-Brexit trade issues in Northern Ireland.

SNP leadership contender Kate Forbes’ husband attended a private Tory hustings in the race to elect the next Conservative leader.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced a "decisive breakthrough" in post-Brexit rules for Northern Ireland's trade barriers in the Irish Sea.

Today marks one full year since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began and fears remain that it could last for another.

Naman Ramachandran Publisher Puffin U.K. will release “The Roald Dahl Classic Collection,” which will have the author’s original texts. “The Roald Dahl Classic Collection” will be available alongside the newly released Puffin Roald Dahl books for young readers, “which are designed for children who may be navigating written content independently for the first time,” Puffin said. “Readers will be free to choose which version of Dahl’s stories they prefer.” Last week, Puffin was in the eye of a storm when it emerged that the works of Dahl, who died in 1990, had been rewritten, with the phrase “enormously fat” edited to just “enormous” and “most formidable female” to “most formidable woman” among numerous other examples from his most famous books. People who opposed the edits include author Salman Rushdie, who described it as “absurd censorship,” and U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

The government have belatedly released the details behind what they are describing as a 'bold plan to protect (the) long-term future of English (men's) football'.

The language used in the work of writer Roald Dahl has been changed to remove anything that my be deemed offensive. The publisher of Dahl’s work, Puffin books has removed words like “fat” to describe characters and gender neutral terms are also now being used.

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has joined in the criticism of changes made to classic works by Roald Dahl which came to light over the weekend. Titles like James and the Giant Peach, The BFG, Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory have been altered by modifying words that are now deemed offensive.

< 1 min read A petition with almost 30,000 signatures is calling on the Canadian government to allow transgender and non-binary people to claim asylum in the country due to what it deems “eliminationist laws” in their home countries, including so-called safe Western democracies.

The disclosure of private information about Nicola Bulley is “shocking”, according to Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt. Her comments came after reports that heartless trolls hacked into social media accounts belonging to the missing mum's partner Paul Ansell.

LIVE – Updated at 07:31The comments made against a female detective leading the search for Nicola Bulley have come under severe criticism from a former head of a police watchdog. Zoe Billingham, who headed His Majesty’s Inspector of Constabulary, said the remarks by “a small section of the media” were “really disturbing”. “It’s the 21st century.

Manori Ravindran Executive Editor of International Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to make an appearance at the Berlinale, Variety has learned. A spokesperson for the Berlin Film Festival, which kicks off on Thursday, confirmed that the Ukrainian leader “will be present at Berlinale in some kind of form,” although “which and when is not confirmed yet.” Zelenskyy is the subject of one of the festival’s most high-profile projects: Sean Penn and Aaron Kaufman’s top-secret documentary “Superpower.” The details of the film have remained sparse for over a year, when it was first revealed that Penn had been in Ukraine when the war with Russia broke out.

A man was left bedbound in his mum's front room for four years after being bitten by a tick.

BBC chairman Richard Sharp undermined public trust in the BBC and more widely the public appointments system with his failure to reveal he had been involved in arranging a loan of £800,000 for then UK prime minister Boris Johnson, politicians have concluded in a damning report published today. 

Volodymyr Zelensky, the President of Ukraine, paid a historic visit to the UK on Wednesday — and surprised a compatriot with a hug during an impromptu moment during a press conference.

The UK has another new Culture Secretary.

The SNP has accused the UK Government of blocking a Bill to prevent people from being cut off from power.

There was a moment last November when Channel 4’s senior executives breathed a sigh of relief.

A woman 'infatuated' with an MP made false claims about being pregnant with his child and ran up a massive hotel bill in his name before expecting him to run away with her.

A new study has discovered that more than half of households across Great Britain are receiving more from the UK Government in state-funded support that they pay in tax. The new findings should be enough of a nudge to encourage more households to check and make sure they are claiming all the support they are entitled to.

BBC Chair Richard Sharp has asked the BBC Board to review conflicts of interest regarding his appointment in the wake of the Boris Johnson loan scandal that broke over the weekend.

Gordon Brown has warned that senior Conservatives are "testing the water for a different kind of NHS" which could see the public charged for some services.

A new opinion poll has found Scots fear the cost of living crisis will get even worse this year.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has refused to rule out blocking new controversial gender recognition laws passed by the Scottish Parliament.

The SNP have accused Rishi Sunak of trying to "outdo Thatcher" over new laws which would restrict unions' ability to strike.

A union boss has accused Rishi Sunak of "silly posturing" instead of working to resolve industrial disputes across the country.

The British film and TV industry breathed a collective sigh of relief today after the government signalled its intention to scrap a planned $1.2B sale of Channel 4, one of the crown jewels of UK broadcasting.