UK government department that supports the prime minister and coordinates policy across Whitehall.
Red diesel has almost doubled in price since the Iran conflict began in late February, just as UK arable farmers need it to plant next season's crop. How much growers can afford to put in the ground this autumn will shape domestic food supply when that crop is harvested.
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More than 150 academics, business leaders and food groups have told Andy Burnham's government that Britain has no plan to feed people in a crisis. The official measures so far target household cupboards, so buffer stock along the supply chain stays each food business's own cost.
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The National Centre for Information Defence has a name, the Cabinet Office leading the initial work, and an offer to share British methods with European governments before their elections. Burnham gave few details of its shape.
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Ministers explored forcing the largest AI companies to submit products for safety testing before launch. The plans lapsed with Starmer's premiership, and the department that was writing them has since been abolished.
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A cross-party group of peers and MPs wants a legal power to force a frontier AI model offline in an emergency. The Cabinet Office told the BBC that blocking UK access would not stop models being developed or misused elsewhere.
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Alex Sobel's bill may go nowhere and its text is not public, yet the same week showed where a capability rule would attach, with Anthropic declining to send Mythos 5.1 to the UK's AI Security Institute before release.
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