Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Greg Clark

Let drug companies see NHS patient data to save lives, former cabinet minister urges

Exclusive: Ex-Tory business secretary Greg Clark backs calls for pharmaceutical giants to get easier access to health service records

The Independent UK

Some 90% of the global population will live in cities by 2080, urbanist Greg Clark says

According to global urbanist Greg Clark, 55 years from now, the world’s population will have peaked, and nearly all of it will be living in cities. But what challenges will this bring? And what are the possible solutions?

Euronews

Former Tory minister to advise Government on industrial strategy

The Government’s new Industrial Strategy Advisory Council will hold its first meeting on Tuesday.

Evening Standard

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Ed Davey and former Lib Dem leaders face grilling at Horizon inquiry

Davey, Jo Swinson and Vince Cable all held coalition posts at the time of the Post Office scandal, but Tory ex-ministers will be subject to hardest questions

The Guardian - UK

Britain’s levelling up agenda was stymied from the very start

Inherent flaws and political churn doomed Boris Johnson’s signature policy – and it was hobbled through bureaucracy and high inflation

The Guardian - UK

Tory former business secretary criticises successors ‘abandoning industrial strategy’

Greg Clark, with Peter Mandelson and Vince Cable, said UK must be ‘more active’ in approach to industry

The Guardian - UK

Expensive and loathed, ‘the Slab’ will be a terrible monument. It’s being called Gove Towers and he deserves it

The London megabuilding given the go-ahead this week is a giant symbol of profit over community, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

UK Government urged to scrap ‘firesale’ of £1bn Covid laboratory on Rightmove

MPs are calling for the UK Government to scrap plans to sell off a former Covid laboratory which is being advertised on Rightmove.

The National (Scotland)

Use ‘mothballed’ Covid mega lab to help tackle antibiotic resistance, MPs urge

The Rosalind Franklin Laboratory – which has received more than £1 billion of public funding – is currently on sale on Rightmove.

The Independent UK

Government not rushing into new AI laws, says Science Secretary

Michelle Donelan was asked about legislation a week after the AI safety summit ended with an agreement between government and tech firms.

The Independent UK

Lack of AI Bill disappointing, says technology committee chairman

Science, Innovation and Technology Committee chairman Greg Clark warned the UK risked falling behind other countries if it did not legislate on AI.

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak warned of ‘12 risks of AI’ amid calls for urgent regulation

PM urged to set out laws to curtail the risks of artifical intelligence

The Independent UK

Government urged to address AI ‘risks’ to avoid ‘spooking’ public

Ministers also urged the Government to ‘move with greater urgency’ when it comes to addressing potential risks associated with the technology.

The Independent UK

‘Most exciting’ applications for AI lie in healthcare, says committee chairman

A House of Commons committee has published a report on the potential risks posed by advancements in the technology.

The Independent UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Time running out for Government to realise UK’s space launch ambitions, say MPs

The Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee said the Government’s ‘disjointed approach’ is hampering launch potential.

Newsroom.co.nz

Wrong headspace? Govt launches small business mental health tool

A new internet-based tool is aimed at helping small business owners deal with stress, particularly around prioritising their time

The Guardian - UK

Lack of plan for green industry risks UK ‘falling behind’, top government adviser warns

Influential economist Andy Haldane says dearth of coherent strategy means Britain isn’t in the new ‘arms race’ to reindustrialise

ABC News

'Sleepwalking into lost productivity': How Australian cities are falling behind the rest of the world

One of the world's foremost experts on cities has warned Australia risks "sleepwalking into a long-term loss of productivity" but not everyone agrees.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

MPs raise concerns about AI ‘explosion’ and call for UK to form global standards

Science Secretary Chloe Smith took Science and Technology questions in the Commons.

The Independent UK

Concerns about harassment have ‘morphed into institutional misandry’, MP says

Senior Tory MP Sir Christopher Chope warned the public debate around harassment was damaging to the mental health of boys and young men.

Daily Mirror

MPs back plans to make street sexual harassment like catcalling illegal

The Protection from Sex-based Harassment in Public Bill received an unopposed third reading in the Commons. It will now be scrutinised in the House of Lords before it becomes law.

Liverpool Echo

Details of panel to guide Liverpool Council out of trouble still not finalised

The group, chaired by Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram, was announced in August

The Independent UK

Catcallers and street harassment offenders to face two years in prison under new laws

Home Secretary Suella Braverman has declared her support for new legislation to make the behaviour a specific offence

The Independent UK

Catcalling and public sexual harassment sentences set to rise to maximum of two years

Home Secretary Suella Braverman has declared her support for new legislation to make the behaviour a specific offence.

The Independent UK

Government approach to UK space policy is ‘uncertain and disjointed’, say MPs

MPs express concerns over the benefits of the taxpayer-funded £400 million stake in OneWeb satellite company.

1 2 3

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

The Civil Aviation Authority

49 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.