The number of ‘clandestine’ boat migrants crossing the English Channel is up more than 60 per cent in a year, the government reveals, with levels having reached yet another new record high.
The final remaining licences required for Virgin Orbit to launch from Spaceport Cornwall have been issued by the UK space regulator.
The Civil Aviation Authority has granted the launch operator and range control licences, which have been signed off by the Transport Secretary.
Today’s questions were simply to elicit the JSO’s point of view and the whole thing was sympathetically conducted throughout, despite the intensity of public opinion about this lunatic behaviour.
The National Audit Office estimates that the UK government spent £376billion on its Covid-19 pandemic response measures. This figure is almost certainly an understatement as, for instance, large losses are still racking up on government-backed ‘Bounce Back Loans’. More recent analysis suggests that £500billion is a more accurate figure.
The cabinet gets talked about a lot – whether it’s drama at weekly meetings or big “reshuffles”. Here’s a very quick guide to what it is if you don’t follow politics.
Rishi Sunak will be the UK’s next prime minister after winning the Conservative Party leadership contest. Sunak will become the UK’s first British Asian PM and at 42, the youngest leader in more than two centuries
The London-based satellite company, OneWeb, is back on track with the launch of another 36 spacecraft for its global broadband internet system.
The platforms went up on a LVM3 rocket from Sriharikota island in India.
Johnson withdraws from contest
Sunak officially declares he will run
First ballot to be held on Monday
Sunak clearly leading other contender Mordaunt
IT IS apparent that none of our major parties has a clue about how to tackle the ever-worsening energy crisis. Indeed, the policies of the government, Labour and Lib Dems are to all intents and purposes the same:
• Short-term handouts, which are totally unaffordable
• No plan to tackle the supply crisis
• Blind devotion to renewable energy
Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne vehicle came into Newquay, Cornwall, late on Friday on a military plane from California where it was made.
The rocket will now be prepared for its flight to space, which is likely to occur sometime next month.
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