This reform will save lives, ease pressure on the NHS, and build a healthier Britain. Children in the UK will be part of the first smoke-free generation, protected from a lifetime of addiction and harm.
The new rules would restrict the shooting of species including the distinctive woodcock, and the striking pintail, goldeneye and pochard ducks, all of which are classed as under threat and have seen their populations fall sharply in recent years.
The UK will bring into force a law which will make it illegal to create non-consensual intimate images, following widespread concerns over Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot. The Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said the law would make it illegal for companies to supply the tools designed to create such images. Speaking to the Commons, Kendall said AI-generated pictures of women and children in states of undress, created without a person's consent, were not "harmless images" but "weapons of abuse".
We'll get this right but we also require the regulator to provide us with the information we need as a government to consider all that together: the code of practice, together with other material. A bit more focus on that and a little less focus on public debate would be helpful.
The government legislation allowing foreign states to own up to 15% in British newspapers survived a potentially fatal vote in the House of Lords, ensuring RedBird Capital's purchase of the Telegraph can proceed.
