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Our regulators, having been the nimblest in the world, are now taking too long.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
What happens with any NHS winter crisis is the focus of attention immediately switches to the hospitals and dominates the system's thinking, many people in the social care sector told me exactly the same thing happened with COVID-19.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
If Boris wins, which is what the polls are saying, at the moment, and he comes back with a majority, that British government will be much less willing to compromise.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The Stena Impero was seized in Omani waters in clear contravention of international law.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
These seizures are unacceptable, it is essential that freedom of navigation is maintained and that all ships can move safely and freely in the region.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Also spoke to @FabianPicardo who is doing an excellent job co-ordinating issue and shares UK perspective on the way forward.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Because Boris never answers the questions, we have absolutely no idea what his premiership would be like.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Let me clear what I said. I said that I condemned, and we as the United Kingdom, condemn all violence and that people who supported the pro-democracy demonstrators would have been very dismayed by the scenes they saw.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The outcome of that investigation will inform our assessment of future export license applications to the Hong Kong police.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I today urge the Hong Kong ... government to establish a robust, independent investigation into the violent scenes that we saw.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We will stand by that agreement and we expect China to do the same, the fundamental freedoms of Hong Kong are what have made it such a stunning success since 1997 and indeed before 1997 - anything that contradicted the letter or spirit of the basic law that preserves them should not happen.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
When I talk to European leaders this is do-able, one of the reasons that they stopped talking to us before was because they didn't think that the British government would deliver the British parliament. That's what we need to change.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I think there is a deal that can unite all wings of the Conservative party and our friends in the DUP, but it's got to be different to Theresa May's deal.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
People need to know what you're going to do and you need to answer those questions, i promise Boris Johnson the fight of his life and he's going to have that and he's going to lose.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
On the question of debates, he is being a coward, it is cowardice not to appear in head-to-head debates.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We have been doing everything we can to de-escalate the situation.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We are very concerned: we don't think either side wants a war, but we are very concerned that we could get into an accidental war and we are doing everything we can to ratchet things down.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I think someone who wants to be prime minister should answer questions on everything.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Scrutiny can be uncomfortable. But if we can't handle it with friends, we won't deserve to lead against our opponents, if you want the job, you have to turn up for the interviews.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
If we got to the 31st of October, and the EU have not shown the willingness to negotiate a better deal ... the political risk of no Brexit is far worse than the economic risk of no deal, i would take us out of the European Union in that situation.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I am not going to create a set of circumstances that makes it all but impossible to get a deal because I think we should be offering the country some better choices.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The difference between me and Boris is that I would try for a deal.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We can only have that debate if our frontrunner in this campaign is a little bit braver in terms of getting out into the media, engaging in debates, engaging in the TV debate, if you want to be prime minister of the United Kingdom, you have to get out there and make your case. What would Churchill say if somebody who wants to be prime minister of the United Kingdom was hiding away from the media, not taking part in these big occasions.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We are going to make our own independent assessment, we have our processes to do that, (but) we have no reason not to believe the American assessment and our instinct is to believe it because they are our closest ally.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We haven't made our final decision but we have also made it clear that we are considering both the technical issues - how you make sure there isn't a backdoor so that a third country could use 5G to spy on us - but also the strategic issues so that you make sure that you are not technologically over-dependent on a third country for absolutely vital technology.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We take careful notice of everything the U.S. says on these issues, we will certainly listen carefully to what they say.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
What we need is a period of calm to make sure that everyone understands what the other side is thinking.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
We are very worried about the risk of a conflict happening by accident, with an escalation that is unintended really on either side but ends with some kind of conflict, what we need is a period of calm to make sure that everyone understands what the other side is thinking.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
We recognise that Japan has many investments employing hundreds of thousands of people in the U.K. We want strong cooperation to continue.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
What we are looking for is to avoid a long extension, we are a democracy with a hung parliament, so it's not easy.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We've always been very clear that the Brexit future we want is outside the customs union, it's in our manifesto, so we don't want to be in the customs union, that's why we are having this discussion, we want to see what common ground there is.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The UK's involvement in the G7 is vital for our collective security and prosperity as we seek to protect the rules-based international system, be in no doubt that once Brexit has happened, the UK will remain a global power.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We have been working hard to secure her release but despite repeated efforts have not been successful. We have not even been able to secure her the medical treatment she urgently needs despite assurances to the contrary, no government should use innocent individuals as pawns for diplomatic leverage so I call on Iran to release this innocent woman so she can be reunited with her family.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I have today decided that the UK will take a step that is extremely unusual and exercise diplomatic protection.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It is unlikely to be a magic wand that leads to an overnight result. But it demonstrates to the whole world that Nazanin is innocent and the UK will not stand by when one of its citizens is treated so unjustly.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
My decision is an important diplomatic step which signals to Tehran that its behavior is totally wrong.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
This is really the only way through the current situation.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The issue about an extension is whether that really solves anything, the last thing people in the UK and Europe want is Brexit paralysis. I think people want to move on.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We can get this deal through parliament, if we can have a deal where the attorney general can change his advice to parliament. That is going to be key to unlocking it, with vision and statesmanship on both sides, this can be done and I am hopeful it will be.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The GRU's actions are reckless and indiscriminate : Russian GRU intelligence service operatives try to undermine and interfere in elections in other countries ; Russian GRU intelligence service operatives are even prepared to damage Russian companies and Russian citizens.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
You're going to have very, very lively debates in a situation like this. This is one of the biggest decisions that we have taken as a country in our political lifetimes so there's going to be a pretty fierce discussion but the prime minister has found a way forward.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
They had a lot of concern about, for example how we're going to avoid a hard border with Northern Ireland, whether it is possible to have frictionless trade without a customs union, what we've shown them is that that is possible. This is a very very significant step... I think we have the basis that we can move forward.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
It was completely inappropriate for businesses to be making these kinds of threats for one very simple reason - we are in an absolutely critical moment in the Brexit discussions and what that means is that we need to get behind Theresa May to deliver the best possible Brexit, the more that we undermine Theresa May the more likely we to end up with a fudge which will be absolute disaster for everyone.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Had the establishment listened when ordinary families raised concerns... many of those deaths would not have happened.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
For them and others it is incredibly upsetting to know that you did not receive an invitation for screening at the correct time and totally devastating to hear you may have lost or be about to lose a loved one because of administrative incompetence.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Our current best estimate, which comes with caveats ... is that there may be between 135 and 270 women who had their lives shortened as a result, tragically there are likely to be some people in this group who would have been alive today if the failure had not happened.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I am concerned that your companies seem content with a situation where thousands of users breach your own terms and conditions on the minimum user age, i fear that you are collectively turning a blind eye to a whole generation of children being exposed to the harmful emotional side effects of social media prematurely.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
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