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Portrait of the week | 26 February 2011

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issue 26 February 2011

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David Cameron, the Prime Minister, visited Egypt, speaking to Mohamed Tantawi, the head of the armed forces supreme council, and to Ahmed Shafiq, the caretaker Prime Minister. Later, in Kuwait, he said that ‘denying people their basic rights does not preserve stability, rather the reverse’. Before leaving Britain, Mr Cameron had written about the government’s plans to allow private and voluntary groups to run almost every kind of public service. Foreign migrants accounted for a net increase of 3.2 million in the United Kingdom population between 1997 and 2010, according to the Office for National Statistics. Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, gave new criteria for adoption to allow white couples to adopt black children. A chilli grown in Grantham, Lincolnshire, was said to be the hottest in the world at 1,176,182 on the Scoville Heat Unit scale.

President Obama of the United States is to make a three-day state visit to Britain from 24 May, staying at Buckingham Palace.

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