LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister and Conservative Party Leader Rishi Sunak won the first televised election debate by a wafer thin margin, a YouGov snap poll for Sky News showed on Tuesday. The poll showed 51% thought Sunak performed better, compared to 49% for his Labour Party rival Keir Starmer. (Reporting by William James. …
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By Elizabeth Pineau and Gerhard Mey OUISTREHAM, France/PORTSMOUTH, England (Reuters) – British veterans sailed on Tuesday to Normandy where, 80 years ago this week, they fought to liberate France as part of D-Day, preparing to taking part in ceremonies marking a major turning point of World War Two. The special voyage was part of celebrations …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Nigel Farage, new leader of Britain’s right-wing Reform Party and thorn in the side of the governing Conservatives, was doused with a soft drink on Tuesday in his first full day of campaigning for a seat in parliament in the July 4 election. On Monday, Farage produced the biggest shock of the …
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By Hannah Ellison LONDON (Reuters) -Royal Navy veteran Fred Ayton was told he was “making history” when he set off across the English Channel 80 years ago on the eve of D-Day, a momentous point in the fight against Nazi Germany for someone who was “only a kid”. Ayton was an 18-year-old able seaman torpedoman …
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Denmark has raised its threat level assessment for destructive cyber attacks against companies, organisations and authorities in the country to three on a five-level scale, the defence minister said on Tuesday. The Danish Centre for Cyber Security raised its threat level for destructive cyber attacks to ‘middle’ from ‘low’, Defence Minister Troels …
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LONDON (Reuters) – A baby girl found earlier this year in a shopping bag in east London is the third child to have been abandoned by the same parents in similar circumstances over the last seven years, British police said on Tuesday. The baby girl, named Elsa, was discovered by a person walking their dog …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday promised to introduce a legal cap to curb immigration levels if re-elected, taking aim at one of the main issues facing the country ahead of next month’s national vote. His Conservative Party, which is trailing opposition Labour in polls, said that if the party returned …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s King Charles will host Japanese Emperor Naruhito and his wife for a state visit later in June, Buckingham Palace said on Tuesday, providing details of the three-day trip in the latest sign of the monarch’s health after his cancer diagnosis. Emperor Naruhito and his wife, Empress Masako, will be greeted by …
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By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) – Wet weather and ongoing cost-of-living pressures kept a cloud over British consumers in May, with one survey showing the weakest spending growth in more than three years. Barclays said spending on its customers’ debit and credit cards was only 1.0% higher than a year earlier, slowing from 1.6% annual …
By Muvija M LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s main opposition Labour Party is set for its biggest ever victory in next month’s general election, winning by a larger margin than in 1997 under former prime minister Tony Blair, opinion pollsters YouGov said on Monday. YouGov’s poll predicted that centre-left Labour would win 422 seats in parliament, giving …
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