Lula Da Silva, (Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva “Lula”) Left-wing ex-president won 50.8 per cent of all valid votes to nearly 49.2 per cent for Far-right leader and former army captain, Jair Bolsonaro in the deciding round of Brazil’s presidential vote. Lula, president from 2003 to 2010, sought a political comeback after being embroiled in several corruption…
Rishi Sunak has become the new UK Prime Minister after meeting King Charles III at Buckingham Palace. Rishi Sunak in his first speech said “the UK is facing a profound economic crisis” and that he has been chosen as the new Tory leader to fix some of Liz Truss’s mistakes. He tells the public from…
Rishi Sunak has issued a plea for unity amid profound economic challenges after winning the race to be the next Prime Minister. Sunak promised to serve with integrity and thanked outgoing Prime Minister Liz Truss for leading the country during exceptionally difficult circumstances. He said “ The United Kingdom is a great country but there…
Rishi Sunak is the next UK Prime Minister, as Mordaunt drops out of the Tory leadership race only minutes before the nominations closed. Former Chancellor Sunak will succeed Liz Truss seven weeks after she defeated him in the previous Tory contest. Sunak gained the support of over half the Tory MPs, with Mordaunt struggling to…
In May 2020, Kate Bingham, the life sciences venture capitalist was asked to lead the UK government’s vaccine task force (VTF), although she believed a successful Covid-19 vaccine was the “longest of the long shots”, and was reluctant to take responsibility of potentially wasting large sums of public money by pursuing jabs that…
The UK’s shortest-serving Prime Minister Liz Truss has resigned after 44 days in office, during which she presided over a failed “mini budget” which triggered financial turmoil, and Imploded quite rapidly to inflict lasting damage to the Conservative Party. Her speech: “I came into office at a time of great economic and international instability. “Families…
Liz Truss says free democracies need strong economies and she will ”not allow the anti-growth coalition to hold us back. This is made up of Labour, the Lib Dems, the SNP, the militant unions, the vested interested dressed up as think talks, the talking heads, and the Brexit deniers. Extinction Rebellion and some of the…
Brazil’s election is going into a second round in which left-wing Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva who had won 48 % will face far-right Jair Bolsonaro’s 43%. Lula fell short of the more than 50% of valid votes needed to prevent a. run-off and triggering voting again on 30th October 2022. The last time a…
Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng says the proposals announced just ten days ago in the mini-budget, had become a distraction and the government is abandoning its plan to abolish the top rate of income tax for the highest earners. In a statement, he said: “It is clear that the abolition of the 45 p tax become a…
Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni has won Italy’s election and will be the country’s first female prime minister, a right-wing government since World War Two and since Benito Mussolini. Ms. Melon’s right-wing Alliance has control of both houses with 42.2 per cent of the Senate Vote. The turnout was low – 63.82 per cent by the…