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Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, told the House of Commons that, in taking part in a second American air attack on Houthi positions near Sanaa, Britain had ‘acted in line with international law, in self defence, and in response to an immediate threat’. This time the leader of the opposition had not been informed before the attack. Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, said: ‘We back this targeted action.’ Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton, the Foreign Secretary, set off to visit the Middle East. The Commons Procedure Committee decided to recommend that the Foreign Secretary should in general answer questions in the Commons by being summoned to the Bar of the House.
Sir Simon Clarke, the former chief secretary to the Treasury, said that the Conservatives ‘will be massacred unless they get rid of Rishi Sunak’. Others called the idea madness. Interest payments on government debt fell to £4 billion in December, £14.1 billion less than in December 2022. The quantity of goods bought in Britain fell 3.2 per cent between November and December. Tata Steel said it was cutting 2,800 jobs in Britain, 2,500 of them at Port Talbot, where only steel recycled from scrap will be produced in new arc furnaces costing £1.25 billion, of which the government will provide £500 million. In 2002, 15,706 asylum-seekers whose applications had remained unresolved after a year were allowed to work in Britain for 20 per cent less than the going rate in trades deemed to be short of workers, such as roofers, care workers and vets. Ofcom countenanced future postal deliveries on only three days a week.
The Covid Inquiry heard that all the WhatsApp messages belonging to Nicola Sturgeon, the former first minister of Scotland, from the time of the pandemic, appeared to have been deleted.
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