Top UK leaders push for sovereignty in AI sector
New Delhi, Feb. 21 -- In an unlikely double act at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, UK deputy prime minister David Lammy and former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak - separated in Westminster by one of the most bruising electoral defeats in Conservative history - shared a stage in New Delhi to argue that artificial intelligence is too consequential to be left to partisan instinct.
The symbolism was deliberate. Lammy, who took charge of British foreign policy when Labour swept to power in July 2024, defeating Sunak's government, has preserved the broad architecture of his predecessor's AI agenda: the first global safety summit at Bletchley Park, the 2023 AI White Paper, and the sectoral regulatory framework that followed.
Sunak, now a backbench MP...
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