Environment secretary will take direct oversight of major infrastructure projects to stop delays – UK politics live
Ministers plan to step in earlier on developments, such as the expansion of Heathrow airport in London, to resolve issuesIt is “absolutely essential” for the US to be part of European security guarantees for a potential Ukrainian peace deal, but there is “lots more work to be done” on what...
<p>Ministers plan to step in earlier on developments, such as the expansion of Heathrow airport in London, to resolve issues</p><p><strong>It is “absolutely essential” for the US to be part of European security guarantees for a potential Ukrainian peace deal, but there is “lots more work to be done” on what they will entail, a minister has said.</strong></p><p>“The really important progress yesterday was on the security guarantees, these issues that the prime minister and president Macron have been leading on within Europe, with 30 countries involved in planning with a coalition of the willing to make sure we can provide those guarantees.</p><p>Those guarantees are really important. You’re right to say that there’s now lots more work to be done on the nature of those guarantees. That’s what is now under way.</p><p>You’ve seen that happening immediately. It was already under way, as I say, across 30 countries, and now the United States is going to be involved in that.</p><p>In the House of Commons, we abstained [from the decision to make Palestine Action a proscribed organisation] because we didn’t think the government had made that case.</p><p>We absolutely accept that criminal acts have happened against British military assets and that is deeply worrying.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/aug/19/environment-infrastructure-projects-labour-conservatives-keir-starmer-kemi-badenoch-uk-politics-live-news">Continue reading...</a>
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