By DAVID WILCOCK, DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR FOR MAILONLINE Published: 13:32 GMT, 28 January 2025 | Updated: 13:35 GMT, 28 January 2025 Ministers have rejected demands for a blanket ban on mobile phones in classrooms amid fears they are damaging educational standards. Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has rejected a Tory call for tougher action to limit…
The Tories will push for a ban on smartphones in schools to be included in the Government’s education Bill. The Conservatives are tabling an amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill to end the use of mobile phones and other devices during school days by pupils. It is understood that the Labour Government has…
BEIJING – China’s relations are starting to improvewith Japan, India and other countries that former U.S. President Joe Biden courted, just as Donald Trump brings his more unilateralist approach back to the White House. The change of leadership in Washington on Monday could be an opportunity for China, which has long railed against Biden’s strategy…
The British finance minister’s plans to visit China next month may be the latest signal that the Labour Party wants to take a pragmatic approach that balances economic ties with concerns over security and human rights, analysts have said. One said it may also be a way of “testing the waters” about whether this approach…
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – NOVEMBER 29, 2024: Disabled people and their supporters gather outside … [+] Houses of Parliament to demonstrate their opposition to assisted dying as Kim Leadbeater MP’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill reaches its Second Reading debate and vote in the House of Commons in London, United Kingdom on November…
Elon Musk has responded after being excluded from the United Kingdom government’s upcoming International Investment Summit set for October 14, reportedly due to his recent social media posts, as per BBC News.The billionaire, known for his often provocative remarks on X, aimed at the UK in response and said. “I don’t think anyone should go…