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By Sachin Ravikumar and Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) -Three opinion polls on Wednesday predicted a record defeat for British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives at a July 4 election, forecasting the Labour Party would comfortably win a large majority after 14 years in opposition. Polling by YouGov showed Keir Starmer’s Labour was on track to …

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By Nick Said FRANKFURT, Germany (Reuters) – Denmark have long lost the bitter taste of defeat from three years ago and are not fuelled by thoughts of revenge as they face England in European Championship Group C on Thursday in search of a repeat of their 1992 continental triumph. The Danes were furious following a …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s opposition Labour Party is on track to win the most seats in the party’s history at a July 4 election, according to a YouGov poll published on Wednesday. The multilevel regression and post-stratification (MRP) poll predicted that Labour would win 425 seats, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives expected to win …

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By James Davey LONDON (Reuters) – Amazon workers at a warehouse in Britain moved closer to possibly gaining union recognition as a ballot process began, where a ‘yes’ vote would force the U.S. firm to negotiate labour terms with a union for the first time outside the United States. The GMB union said on Wednesday …

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By Muvija M and Stuart McDill BRIGHTON, England (Reuters) – When voters go to the polls in one English town next month they will get the chance to elect what is being billed as the world’s first AI lawmaker. Businessman Steve Endacott is among hundreds of candidates standing to become a member of parliament at …

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LONDON (Reuters) -British house prices rose for a second month in a row in April, increasing by an annual 1.1% to an average of 281,000 pounds ($358,000) after a 0.9% rise in March, the Office for National Statistics said on Wednesday. The ONS’s gauge of private-sector rents increased by 8.7% in the year to May, …

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(Reuters) – The value of pay deals handed out by British employers inched higher in the three months to May, according to a survey on Wednesday that underlined how pay growth – a major driver of inflation pressure – may be slow to cool. Median basic pay settlements in the three months to May were …

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(Reuters) – Britain’s twice Olympic medallist Georgia Taylor-Brown, Kate Waugh and Sam Dickinson are the final triathletes selected for the country’s Paris Olympics squad, the British Olympic Association said on Wednesday. The trio join Beth Potter and Alex Yee, who were named in the team at the end of 2023. “It’s really exciting to be …

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