Britain
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Sky News’ Sophy Ridge had a chat with Liz Kendall, the work and pensions secretary, yesterday evening. This is on the back of a government announcing new plans to reduce welfare spending through various measures – including directly taking money out of people’s bank accounts and suspending their driving licences. Ms Kendall says this is…
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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak suffered a fresh setback in his struggling election campaign on Friday when he apologized for leaving D-Day commemorations early in order to give an interview attacking the main opposition party. Sunak’s decision not to stay at the event in northern France alongside other world leaders on Thursday was met with…
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Iran will release a British national and four Americans held in the country in exchange for $6bn (£4.8bn) and a prisoner swap. The funds, once frozen in South Korea, are now in Qatar after the Biden administration issued a waiver for international banks to transfer frozen Iranian money without the repercussions of US sanctions, an Iranian official…
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Britain’s new Prime Minister Liz Truss on Wednesday readied the final details of a plan to tackle soaring energy bills, which looks likely to cool inflation but add more than 100 billion pounds ($115 billion) to the country’s borrowing. On her first full day as Britain’s leader after replacing Boris Johnson, Truss told parliament she…
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Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, has tested positive for the new coronavirus, royal officials confirmed Wednesday — touching off debate about whether his wealth and status gave him priority in receiving a test. The 71-year-old is showing mild symptoms of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, and is self-isolating at a…
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KFC fans in the UK eat over 700 million pieces of chicken a year. To mark National Fried Chicken day, the fast food outlet conducted a study that showed Brits devour a huge amount of chicken each year and revealed that the countries favorite meal is the Boneless Banquet, selling over 16 million meals a…
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UK’s Prime Minister Theresa May defended on Saturday her decision to turn to the country’s main opposition to get her EU divorce deal approved, warning without cross-party consensus Brexit could “slip through our fingers”. The beleaguered leader opened talks this week with the Labour Party in a bid to break months of stubborn opposition in parliament to the withdrawal agreement she struck with…
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The outcome of the UK’s referendum on membership of the European Union (EU) will shape the future of the country’s relationship with its largest trade partner – the EU. Membership of the EU has reduced trade costs between the UK and the rest of Europe. Most obviously, there is a customs union between EU members, which means…
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Britain’s financial sector needs stability to secure its future, along with deeper access to the European Union market after Brexit than what non-EU countries normally get, a senior industry official said on Wednesday. Britain is due to leave the bloc on March 29 but has yet to agree the terms of its divorce after parliament…
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Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said he thinks a Brexit deal can be done by November. The Irish border is the most vexed issue still facing UK and EU negotiators. The Republic’s premier warned the damage caused by talks failure to Britain and Ireland would be “immense”. A special meeting of European leaders in Brussels…
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A huge trove of WikiLeaks records shows the website’s founder Julian Assange sought a Russian visa as his troubles mounted. Image: Julian Assange He had just pulled off one of the biggest scoops in journalistic history, laying American diplomacy bare, but technology firms were cutting ties to his website, cable news pundits were calling…
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Former Conservative leader William Hague has warned Britain faces the “most serious constitutional crisis” for at least a century if a Chequers-based Brexit deal is blocked. Image: Willaim Hague Following warnings from Steve Baker, the former Brexit minister, that up to 80 Tory MPs are prepared to vote down Theresa May’s proposals, if brought to the table, Lord Hague…
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Alleging that Facebook broke the law by failing to safeguard people’s information, Britain’s information regulator has indicated that the social media giant would now face huge fines. In the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the British regulator has alleged that Facebook was not transparent about how data was harvested by others on its platform. The regulator said…
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