20/01/2025 10:50
The Guardian
Westminster is preparing for Donald Trump’s second term ahead of the US president’s inauguration in WashingtonThe government is developing artificial technology (AI) that will help ministers predict how parliament will react to policy proposals, Chris Smyth reports in a story for the Times.The technology, known as Parlex, is designed to avoid catastrophic political rows by predicting how MPs will respond so that officials can come up with a “handling strategy” to get contentious laws through parliament …The Parlex project is at an earlier stage, but is pitched by software developers as a tool that “allows users to forecast parliamentary reactions to proposed policies”. The software analyses Hansard, the official parliamentary record of debates, to offer “insights into how parliament might react to a new policy if it were debated tomorrow” …I think that when you look at past prime ministers, it’s taken between a week or up to a month to come to Washington. The importance is the strength of the relationship and the serious discussions that we have.In the end, we have war in Europe, we have a ceasefire in the Middle East, but it’s incredibly fragile, and there are important malign actors like Iran that we’ve got to discuss with the United States and, of course, our growing trade relations with the United States. Continue reading...
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