A look ahead to the major events topping the news agenda next week, from the Foresight News team.
Leadership of the week
Monday (January 13): Keir Starmer is expected to unveil his AI Opportunities Action Plan; Joe Biden delivers his final foreign policy speech.
Tuesday (January 14): Coronavirus Inquiry Unit hearings begin 4; Yoon Suk-yeol’s impeachment trial set to begin; Confirmation hearing for US Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth.
Wednesday (January 15): Court of Session hears appeal of winter fuel payment cuts; monthly inflation numbers; PMQ Questions.
Thursday (January 16): Estimated monthly GDP; Matt Hancock appears in Covid Inquiry; Possible vote of no confidence in the new French government.
Friday (January 17): Vladimir Putin and Masoud Pezeshkian meet in Moscow; Retail sales figures have been published.
Saturday (January 18): The National March for Palestine is set to march along a contested route in front of the BBC headquarters.
Sunday (January 19): Donald Trump attends a rally on the eve of the inauguration in DC. Deadline for ByteDance to divest TikTok or face US ban (barring Supreme Court intervention); Postponing the announcement of the Oscar nominations.
Also stay tuned…
January 13
Yvette Cooper faces management questions from MPs in the House of Commons
The Countess of Chester Hospital chief executive gives evidence at the Lucy Letby inquest
Iran and G3 (United Kingdom, France and Germany) talks in Geneva
Hindi Maha Kumbh Mela
January 14
MPs discuss the draft Tenants’ Rights Bill in the House of Commons
House of Commons Leader Lucy Powell at a Standards Committee hearing on MPs’ foreign interests
Finland hosts a NATO Allied summit in the Baltic Sea
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov holds the annual press conference
January 15
Meeting of NATO defense leaders and partners
Confirmation session for US Secretary of State nominee Marco Rubio
Bridget Phillipson and Ed Miliband at selected committee scrutiny sessions
BAFTA nominations
January 16
A man has been sentenced guilty of threatening to kill a Labor MP
Public monument to Jean-Marie Le Pen
Early parliamentary elections are held in Vanuatu
January 17
Alok Sharma and Kat Little in Covid inquiry
Ofcom’s rules on inflation-linked telecom price rises come into force
Season 2 of Severance has been released
January 18
D.C. protests planned ahead of Trump’s inauguration
January 19
Orthodox Epiphany in Russia
Statistics, reports and main results:
January 13
Take the UK/PwC Executive Survey
Four years ago: Trump was impeached for the second time
January 14
Deadline for PSR Premier League accounts
January 15
Producer price inflation
US inflation
Germany 2024 GDP
World Economic Forum Global Risks Report
Results from: Citigroup, JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, Curry, Hayes
January 16
NHS weekly urgent and emergency care situation report
Quarterly CPS performance statistics
ILO report on global employment and social prospects
Human Rights Watch Global Report
Results from: Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Taylor Wimpey
January 17
The US Central Bank issued its budget and economic forecasts
China quarterly GDP and economic data
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