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LONDON (Reuters) – The pound rose on Wednesday, taking advantage of a softening in the dollar and a reading of business activity that showed growth in the British services sector cooled in June, but not by as much as initially forecast. The U.S. currency weakened against most others on Wednesday, bar the Japanese yen and …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Labour Party is expected to win Thursday’s national election, returning to power after 14 years in opposition and making Keir Starmer the country’s new prime minister. Below are the foreign policy plans the party set out in its manifesto ahead of the vote: EUROPEAN UNION Labour has promised Britain will stay …

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NEWRY, Northern Ireland (Reuters) – Charges of historical sex offences against the former leader of Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), Jeffrey Donaldson, can proceed to trial, a judge ruled on Wednesday after prosecutors presented further charges. Donaldson, 61, stepped down suddenly as head of the British region’s largest unionist party in March after the …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Labour Party is projected to win Thursday’s national election with a large majority, returning to power after 14 years in opposition. Below are some of the party’s main domestic policy plans, set out in its manifesto ahead of the July 4 vote: ECONOMY Labour has said sustained economic growth will be …

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LONDON (Reuters) – British investors added a record 11.4 billion pounds ($14.5 billion) into equity funds over the first six months of 2024, as the prospect of further central bank interest rate cuts fuelled demand for riskier assets, according to fund network Calastone. The flows into stocks were the highest for a half-year period in …

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By William James LONDON (Reuters) – Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson made a surprise appearance in the British election campaign on Tuesday, issuing a last-ditch bid to rally support for the Conservatives and their leader Rishi Sunak, the man who helped turf him out of office. Johnson won a big majority at the last election …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Labour Party is set to sweep to power with a record number of seats at Thursday’s national election, a forecast by polling company Survation showed on Tuesday. Survation’s central scenario showed Keir Starmer’s Labour winning 484 of the 650 seats in parliament, far more than the 418 won by the party’s …

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LONDON (Reuters) – As Britain’s election campaign enters its final stretch, the work of opinion pollsters is back in the spotlight with several recent projections of a record victory for the opposition Labour Party grabbing the headlines. Labour’s ample 20-point opinion poll lead has hardly budged since Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the July 4 …

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