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LONDON (Reuters) – Boris Johnson’s Downing Street office will announce small-scale ministerial changes on Tuesday, his spokesman said, part of a reset to the British prime minister’s administration after a slew of scandals, including COVID-19 lockdown-breaking events. “You can expect a small number of changes this afternoon … ministerial level changes,” the spokesman told reporters. …

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BELFAST (Reuters) – Northern Ireland will hold elections to its devolved assembly on schedule on May 5 and the resignation last week of First Minister Paul Givan does not change that, the British minister for the region said on Tuesday. Givan’s resignation, in protest at post-Brexit trade rules, had sparked calls by the region’s two …

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BELFAST (Reuters) – Police in Northern Ireland were guilty of “collusive behaviour” in relation to a series of murders and attempted murders by pro-British militants in the 1990s, the police ombudsman of the British region said in a report published on Tuesday. The police force, the Royal Ulster Constabulary – since replaced by the Police …

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LONDON (Reuters) – The leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party, Keir Starmer, was bundled into a police car on Monday after being confronted by angry protesters, an incident which some lawmakers have linked to false claims about him by Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Johnson described the incident near parliament in central London as “absolutely disgraceful” …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain reported 57,623 new COVID-19 cases on Monday and 45 more deaths within 28 days of a positive test, official data showed. The figures compared to 54,095 cases and 75 deaths reported on Sunday. (Reporting by Michael Holden)

LONDON (Reuters) – British defence minister Ben Wallace said on Monday Britain would send a further 350 troops to Poland. Britain last year sent 100 troops to Poland to help support it with a migrant crisis at its border with Belarus. “We will add to those … by sending a further 350 British troops to …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Queen Elizabeth, who celebrated the 70th anniversary of her accession to the British throne at the weekend, will be returning to normal duties, a Buckingham Palace source said on Monday, having been advised to take it easy by her doctors. The 95-year-old, the world’s oldest and longest-reigning monarch, has been little seen …

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LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson sang Gloria Gaynor’s hit song “I Will Survive”, according to his new communications director, before discussing his appointment to try to reset his premiership after a series of political scandals. Guto Harri, who was appointed as Johnson’s new director of communications on Saturday, said in his first …

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