By Kylie MacLellan and Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Keir Starmer went head-to-head on Wednesday in their last debate before an election next week, with both launching highly personal attacks over their and their parties’ credibility. With Sunak’s Conservatives trailing Labour by around 20 points in the …
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By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) – Russian pranksters who often target people the Russian state is interested in released footage on Wednesday of a video call with British Foreign Secretary David Cameron after tricking him into thinking he was speaking to a former Ukrainian president. London’s Foreign Office said earlier this month that Cameron had …
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LONDON (Reuters) -A man has been arrested in connection with an operation that targeted British politicians and journalists working in parliament with unsolicited and flirtatious messages, police said on Wednesday. “A man was arrested on suspicion of harassment and committing offences under the Online Safety Act. He was taken into custody where he remains,” London’s …
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By Borja Suarez and Michael Francis Gore SANTIAGO DEL TEIDE, Spain (Reuters) – Spanish police are examining CCTV footage from a local town on the island of Tenerife near where British teenager Jay Slater disappeared, its mayor said on Tuesday. Slater, 19, went missing on June 17 and his phone was last traced to the …
By Marie-Louise Gumuchian LONDON (Reuters) -Fourteen years after launching One Direction on “The X Factor”, music mogul and television personality Simon Cowell is looking for the UK’s next big boy band, embarking on a new project differing from the talent shows he is known for. Cowell will hold auditions for 16-18 year-olds in Liverpool, Dublin …
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(Reuters) – When Sussex’s Ollie Robinson came on to bowl against Leicestershire’s number eight batter Louis Kimber on Wednesday, little did the England bowler know he would go down in the record books for conceding 43 runs in an over. After Sussex had declared their second innings on 296-6 to post a target of 464, …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s markets regulator will publish an update in autumn into how companies are detecting and dealing with sexual harassment, bullying and other non-financial misconduct, a senior official said on Wednesday. Steve Smart, the joint head of enforcement at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), told a London conference that the regulator had received …
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By Harry Robertson LONDON (Reuters) – The pound dipped on Wednesday as the dollar strengthened while investors waited for the release of the Federal Reserve’s preferred gauge of inflation on Friday. Sterling was last 0.2% lower at $1.2661, around where it has traded for the last two weeks. The euro was down 0.1% against the …
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(Reuters) – Liontrust Asset Management reported a 23% drop in annual profit on Wednesday and net outflows of 6.1 billion pounds ($7.74 billion) as investor sentiment remained challenging. “We have started to see signs of a change in investor sentiment and this is likely to move significantly when more central banks reduce interest rates and …
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(Reuters) – British insurer Phoenix Group Holdings said on Wednesday it plans to explore a potential sale of its SunLife business. The company will start a sale process, having received a number of initial expressions of interest from third parties, it said. (Reporting by Yadarisa Shabong in Bengaluru; Editing by Sonia Cheema)
