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✈️ NEWS: Major investment deal with Manchester Airport Group to expand Stansted Airport terminal.
▪️ New routes to business and holiday destinations
▪️ 5,000 new jobs
▪️ Boost local supply chains
#UKInvestment
The UK is a great home for international investment, with some of the globe's top universities, a billion dollar tech sector & more unicorn companies than Sweden & Germany combined. Watch the Chancellor's speech from the summit today to find out more.
🤝 We've agreed a collaboration with @EliLillyandCo to accelerate delivery of next-generation medicines.
It includes plans for an innovation hub to help businesses develop life-changing treatments for patients.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/landmark-collaboration-with-largest-pharmaceutical-company
#UKInvestment
We are determined to lead the way on growth.
Determined to get Britain building.
Determined to get our economy moving.
It’s time to back Britain.
Sport and the creative industries are a power house of growth and opportunity in the UK, as well as bringing joy to so many. Fascinating discussion at #ukinvestment summit on what more we can do to put “rocket boosters” under these brilliant sectors in every part of our country.
Glad to be representing startups and talking about opportunities for Embodied AI at the Prime Minister's international investment summit today - among a sea of investors and CEOs!
LIVE: Keir Starmer’s speech at the International Investment Summit https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1BRJjwVNVlvxw
🔊 Sound on.
Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer unveiling investment deals worth billions in AI, life sciences and infrastructure at the International Investment Summit today.
Working in partnership with businesses, this government will boost growth, create jobs and make the UK the…
Today we held the first Council of the Nations and Regions.
Working together, we will unlock the whole of the UK’s untapped potential to make everyone, everywhere better off.
Whether you’re in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland or England – we are creating the conditions for businesses to thrive.
Sending our very best wishes to British Jews and Jewish communities around the world observing #YomKippur
G’mar Chatima Tovah.
Our support for Ukraine, and for NATO, remains unshakeable 🇬🇧🇺🇦
Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer welcomed President @ZelenskyyUa and @SecGenNATO Mark Rutte to Downing Street.
The leaders discussed the importance of a strong and united NATO in the face of ongoing Russian aggression and underscored the UK's commitment to a sovereign Ukraine.
Today is #WorldMentalHealthDay 💙
Remember, it’s okay to acknowledge when something doesn’t feel right.
If you or someone you know is struggling with their mental health, help is available.
Get tips and resources from: https://www.nhs.uk/every-mind-matters/
Slava Ukraini. Today and always 🇬🇧🇺🇦
What does the Employment Rights Bill mean for you?
Find out here 👇
Our Renters’ Rights Bill is moving fast – today is its second reading in Parliament
Our Bill will provide renters with greater security, rights and protections ️🛡️
Find out more ⬇️ ⬇️
#RentersRights
🎬 Exciting news for UK indie filmmakers! New tax reliefs for productions up to £15m will help bring more British stories to life, creating jobs and boosting our creative industries
Get ready for the next big hits coming to your screen
http://www.gov.uk/government/news/uks-world-class-film-sector-handed-major-jobs-and-growth-boost-by-tax-reliefs
The UK creative industries are a £125 billion powerhouse.
Driving economic growth, supporting millions of jobs and entertaining the world.
Today's indie film tax reliefs will help boost the sector, creating more jobs and opportunities for UK filmmakers across the UK.
📣 We’re getting more zero emission buses out on our roads.
@TheGoAheadGroup are investing £500 million to deliver up to 1,200 new zero emission buses from @Wright_bus which will:
✅ Support hundreds of jobs
✅ Get the economy moving
✅ Improve bus journeys
We’re backing investments into greener and better buses to improve journeys for passengers across the country.
▪️ £500 million investment in electric buses
▪️ 1200 UK-made zero emission buses
▪️ 2500 jobs across the sector
7 October 2023 was the darkest day in Jewish history since the Holocaust.
One year on from these horrific attacks we must unequivocally stand with the Jewish community and unite as a country.
We will not falter in our pursuit of peace and on this day of pain and sorrow, we…
Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer’s statement on the one-year anniversary of the October 7th attacks.
We’re partnering with universities and pharmaceutical companies to spot cancer sooner.
The government and NHS will work hand in hand with businesses to deploy innovative technologies that will drive growth and help people live longer, happier and healthier lives.
📢 Attention: Any remaining British nationals and eligible people in Lebanon who wish to leave on Sunday's UK government charter flight.
If you have not already done so, you must register your presence in order to receive details on how to request a seat 🔽…
With more lives being put at risk in the Channel today by smuggling gangs, it is all the more vital that we take urgent action at international level to smash these gangs and strengthen our border security.
The G7 Action Plan agreed in Italy was another step towards that goal ⬇️
A new era for the clean energy industry.
The UK is investing in carbon capture technology in Teesside and Merseyside.
✅ 4,000 new jobs
✅ Accelerate towards net zero
✅ £21.7 billion investment
🧵 How does carbon capture work? Follow the thread.
The Prime Minister’s advice to British nationals who are still in Lebanon: you must leave now.
Shana Tova to Jewish families celebrating Rosh Hashanah today.
Wishing you a very happy, blessed and peaceful New Year.
The UK government is chartering a flight to help British nationals who want to leave Lebanon.
If you are a British national in Lebanon, you should register your presence to receive the latest updates: https://www.register.service.csd.fcdo.gov.uk/lebanon-20140925/tell-the-uk-government-youre-in-lebanon
Faron Paul was stabbed 18 times and left for dead.
But he survived.
His work to remove weapons from UK streets shows what we can achieve when we come together to halve knife crime over the next 10 years.
Strengthening partnerships.
Upholding the @UN Charter.
Defending international law.
This is the UK at the United Nations High-level Week.👇
The UK has worked with partners to increase flights and secure seats for British nationals to leave Lebanon. We are contacting those who have registered with us.
My message to British nationals:
➡️ Register your presence
➡️ Book the first available flight
➡️ Leave now
Friendship. Security. International cooperation.
The UK is back on the global stage.
#UNGA
Britain is open for business.
Britain is open for business.
Whilst in New York, Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer has announced a £10 billion investment from @blackstone to create the biggest AI data centre in Europe.
Over 4,000 jobs will be created, driving growth in the Northeast of England.
Find out more:…
The UK's support for Ukraine is ironclad and will continue for as long as it takes.
In this moment of deepening global conflict, the world is looking to the United Nations Security Council more than ever to provide leadership for peace.
The UK will always play its part in fulfilling this – we have returned our country to responsible global leadership.
#UNGA79
Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer is in New York for the @UN General Assembly.
What’s our focus and why is UNGA important 👇
Today, Home Secretary @YvetteCooperMP has set out new measures to further protect women and girls.
Today is #YouthMentalHealthDay 💜
If you're struggling, or worried about someone you know, you don't have to do it alone.
Small steps can make a big difference.
For help and support, visit: https://www.nhs.uk/every-mind-matters/mental-wellbeing-tips/youth-mental-health/
#MentalHealthAwareness
Foreign Secretary @DavidLammy has put action on the climate and nature crisis at the heart of everything the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office does.
Money that would have been used to fund the Migration Partnership with Rwanda has been redirected to Border Security Command.
This will unlock state-of-the-art technology and additional officers to target the criminal people-smuggling gangs.
📍 Italy
Building an ambitious partnership that delivers for the British and Italian people.
Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer is in Rome to meet Prime Minister @GiorgiaMeloni of Italy.
Through the strength of the UK-US relationship, we will deepen co-operation on shared global challenges.
Our ongoing support for Ukraine is unequivocal.
The need for a ceasefire deal in the Middle East is urgent.
"If I can prevent one young person losing their life then it's all worth it to me".
Faron Paul is an anti-knife crime campaigner who endured 18 stab wounds and survived.
On Monday he attended the first annual Knife Crime Summit at Downing Street.
This is his story.
"I’m 20 now, but I’ve been losing friends constantly since I was 17."
Serena Wiebe is a campaigner, and boxing coach and mentor at @EmpireFightingC
This week she attended the first annual Knife Crime Summit at Downing Street.
This government is committed to getting the NHS back on its feet and fit for the future.
We will work together with NHS staff, patients, experts and businesses on a ten-year plan to deliver long-term reform.
"I've worked in the NHS for more than 30 years, but I've been shocked by what I've found during this investigation."
Professor Lord Darzi's diagnosis of our NHS 👇
http://gov.uk/government/news/pm-major-surgery-not-sticking-plaster-solutions-needed-to-rebuild-nhs
“Daniel died in the early hours of July 8th, 2017.
"By November of that year we had the first bleed control kit in this country.”
Dr Lynne Baird MBE set up the Daniel Baird Foundation after her son was killed in 2017.