By Andrew Cawthorne (Reuters) – Subjected to racist insults after missing the decisive penalty of England’s shootout defeat in the Euro 2020 final, Bukayo Saka buried that nightmare on Saturday with a superb individual goal and spot-kick success against Switzerland. “To come back from something like that was really difficult. I used that to make …
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Saturday he had spoken with Britain’s new Prime Minister Keir Starmer after the landslide victory by Starmer’s Labour Party in a general election. “We have a lot to work on together as we grow our economies, advance AUKUS, and seize the opportunities of the global …
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By Kylie MacLellan, William James and Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s new Prime Minister Keir Starmer pledged on Friday to use his massive electoral majority to rebuild the country, saying he wanted to take the heat out of politics after years of upheaval and strife. Standing outside his new office and residence at Number 10 …
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(Reuters) – Britain’s newly elected Prime Minister Keir Starmer has killed off a deportation plan that would see migrants who arrived in the UK illegally sent to Rwanda on his first day on the job, the Telegraph reported on Friday, citing Labour sources, calling the plan “effectively dead.” Starmer had earlier promised to scrap the …
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(Reuters) – Britain’s newly appointed health secretary, Wes Streeting, will hold talks next week with junior doctors to end an industrial strike action, he said in a statement on Friday. The British Medical Association (BMA), which represents around 50,000 junior doctors, said in May that they would strike for five days immediately before Britain’s July …
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By Suban Abdulla LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s new Prime Minister Keir Starmer will oversee a parliament more ethnically diverse and more female than ever after securing a landslide victory in the election on Thursday that ended 14 years of Conservative rule. Black, Asian and ethnic minority lawmakers will represent around 13% of the House of …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden called new British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday to congratulate him after his Labour Party’s landslide victory in a parliamentary election, the White House said. “The leaders reaffirmed the special relationship between our nations and the importance of working together in support of freedom and democracy around …
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By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) -Nigel Farage was elected to parliament on Friday, marking the emergence of his populist Reform UK as a new force in British politics squeezing the Conservative vote from the right wing. Farage, a driving force behind Britain’s decision to leave the European Union, only entered the race last month, a …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Labour surged to a landslide victory in Britain’s parliamentary election, ending 14 years of often tumultuous Conservative government and propelling Keir Starmer to power as prime minister. WHAT WERE THE RESULTS? With 648 of the 650 seats in parliament’s House of Commons declared, here are the results: Labour – 412 seats, 33.7% vote …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Labour surged to a landslide victory in Britain’s parliamentary election, ending 14 years of often tumultuous Conservative government and propelling Keir Starmer to power as prime minister. WHAT WERE THE RESULTS? With 648 of the 650 seats in parliament’s House of Commons declared, here are the results: Labour – 412 seats, 33.7% vote …
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