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The ban was lifted in February 2018 [90] but remains on the List of Media Harmful to Young People. [91] Dead Rising 2: Banned by the district court of Bautzen in 2011 for violating German Criminal Code section 131 (depictions of violence). [92] [93] The ban was lifted in February 2018 but remains on the List of Media Harmful to Young People. [94]
The Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms ( COBR) are meeting rooms in the Cabinet Office in London. These rooms are used for committees which co-ordinate the actions of government bodies in response to national or regional crises, or during overseas events with major implications for the UK. It is sometimes referred to as COBRA .
Ray-Ban is a brand of luxury sunglasses and eyeglasses created in 1936 by Bausch & Lomb. The brand is best known for its Wayfarer and Aviator lines of sunglasses. In 1999, Bausch & Lomb sold the brand to Italian eyewear conglomerate Luxottica Group for a reported $640 million.
For the financial year 2023-24, total government spending is expected to be £1,189 billion. [ 2] The UK government has spent more than it has raised in taxation since financial year 2001-02, [ 3] creating a budget deficit and leading to growing debt interest payments. Average government spending per person is higher in Scotland, Wales and ...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson restored the unit in the summer of 2021 after a review by Sir Michael Barber, with Emily Lawson as its director. [7] [8] [9] Liz Truss had proposed disbanding the unit prior to her appointment as prime minister in 2022, [10] and replacing it with a new Economic Unit ("to help Truss and her Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng take on the ‘Treasury orthodoxy’ that Truss ...
Britain's Conservative government relaxed planning rules Tuesday and lifted restrictions that effectively banned the building of new onshore wind farms in England. Rules introduced in 2015 by then ...
The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has had a policy to ban full-facial coverings since 2010, while the British National Party (BNP) favoured banning it only in schools. [15] In 2014, UKIP clarified their stance, favouring only a ban at schools and places where security is a concern, [ 16 ] while the BNP are now in favour of a total ban.
e. The government of the United Kingdom (formally His Majesty's Government, abbreviated to HM Government) is the central executive authority of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. [ 2][ 3] The government is led by the prime minister (currently Keir Starmer since 5 July 2024) who selects all the other ministers. The country ...