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The UK has everything it needs to regulate AI. So will it?

By Frank Hersey ( January 12, 2026, 11:51 GMT | Comment) -- The UK government has constantly pushed the prospect of AI regulation further down its agenda. It is no longer clear when an AI bill might be published, if at all. Its stance on keeping abreast of AI by maintaining sector-based rather than cross-cutting regulation is under pressure. It allows a slow drip feed of changes as it repeatedly quashes any attempt by lawmakers to take larger steps. Existing draft bills by lawmakers could provide the answers, if pressure from lawmakers abroad doesn’t stop the UK government considering them.Just before the Christmas recess, an influential committee of lawmakers heard that the government already has the basis for a future AI bill in the form of two bills introduced not by the government, but by individual lawmakers in the House of Lords, the UK's unelected upper chamber....

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