LONDON (Reuters) -Opinion polls project Britain’s Labour Party is on course to return to government with a large majority in Thursday’s national election after 14 years in opposition. Polls close at 10 p.m. (2100 GMT) and results are due to be announced in each of parliament’s 650 constituencies throughout the night. Since the last UK …
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By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) – With Britain poised to vote for its first change of government in 14 years on Thursday, the firms that slashed its credit score after Brexit, and cut it again when Liz Truss roiled markets in 2022, say they have a list of questions that need answers. 1/STABILISE OR SLIP? …
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By Elizabeth Piper CLACTON-ON-SEA, England (Reuters) – Nigel Farage’s supporters are out in force in Clacton-on-Sea to ensure he wins his first seat in parliament, a step, he says, towards his Reform UK party shaking up British politics as Marine Le Pen’s National Rally is doing in France. In an interview at his campaign headquarters …
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By William James LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s Conservative Party all-but conceded election defeat to Keir Starmer’s Labour on Wednesday, a day before polling stations even opened, and warned that the opposition party was on course for a record-breaking victory. Opinion polls show the centre-left Labour Party is set for a big win in Thursday’s vote that …
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LONDON (Reuters) – A new exhibition looking at the evolution of Barbie opens in London this week as the famed Mattel doll celebrates her 65th birthday this year. “Barbie: The Exhibition”, running at the Design Museum from July 5 to Feb. 23, features more than 250 items from the Barbie universe, including an array of …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s opposition Labour Party is on track to win the largest majority of any party in modern history at Thursday’s election, according to a final YouGov projection published on Wednesday. The multilevel regression and post-stratification (MRP) analysis predicted that Labour would win 431 seats, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives expected to win …
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(This July 2 story has been corrected to fix the interpretation of polling data in paragraph 14) By Muvija M and Hannah Ellison OLDHAM, England (Reuters) – Shanaz Saddique is one of a surge of pro-Palestinian candidates hoping to mobilise Muslim votes at Britain’s July 4 election by tapping into discontent over the two main …
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LONDON (Reuters) – When either Rishi Sunak or Keir Starmer take to the stage to hail victory in the British election on Friday, they will be joined at their moment of triumph by either a man with a trash can on his head or someone dressed as “Elmo” from the Muppets. Among the more than …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Rupert Murdoch-owned British tabloid newspaper The Sun endorsed the Labour party and its leader Keir Starmer on Wednesday, one day before a national election. Britons will vote on Thursday in an election which opinion polls say will bring Labour to power and end 14 years of Conservative government. “It’s time for a change,” …
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By Yadarisa Shabong (Reuters) – Manchester United is proposing to cut about 250 jobs as part of a club-wide redundancy programme, a source close to the company told Reuters. The job cuts would include all departments and levels of the club, except for its charitable arm Manchester United Foundation, according to the source. The job …
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