LONDON (Reuters) – Prices of homes being put up for sale in Britain have hit record highs despite still expensive mortgage costs, but the pace of gains has slowed, according to data from property website Rightmove. The average asking price for residential properties touched 375,131 pounds ($474,578.23) in the four weeks to mid-May, Rightmove said. …
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By William James LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will spend more than 10 billion pounds ($12.70 billion) compensating thousands of people who were treated with blood contaminated with HIV or hepatitis C in the 1970s and 1980s, the Sunday Times reported. The infected blood scandal is widely seen as one of the worst treatment disasters in …
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(Reuters) – Britain’s minister for Northern Ireland, Chris Heaton-Harris, will not stand for re-election to parliament, he said in a letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Saturday. Heaton-Harris asked Sunak to let him remain secretary of state for Northern Ireland until the general election, according to the letter he posted on X. He said …
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LONDON (Reuters) – The opposition Labour Party’s lead over British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s governing Conservative Party has increased to 18 points, according to an opinion poll published on Saturday. A national election is expected later this year. The poll, conducted by Opinium Research, predicted Labour would take 43% of the vote, versus 25% for …
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LONDON (Reuters) – The newly installed leader of the semi-autonomous government of Wales, Vaughan Gething, was left weakened on Friday when the nationalist Plaid Cymru party ended its cooperation agreement with his Welsh Labour party. Rhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru’s leader, said he pulled the party out of the deal due to his concerns about …
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By William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives and the opposition Labour Party are increasingly making the economy a battleground of their early election campaigning. Finance minister Jeremy Hunt said on Friday the Conservatives would cut workers’ taxes while Labour’s plans would add 2,000 pounds ($2,531) a year to household tax …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Border Force staff at Britain’s busiest airport, Heathrow, will go on strike on May 31, June 1 and 2, a busy travel time during the country’s school holidays, as they continue their protest over changes to their working conditions. The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union said staff in terminals 2, 3, …
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LONDON (Reuters) – A Moroccan man who stabbed a passer-by to death on a British street in what he later told police was revenge for Israeli action in Gaza was jailed for at least 45 years on Friday, with the judge calling the murder an act of terrorism. Ahmed Alid, 45, who had sought asylum …
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LONDON (Reuters) – An Afghan-born man, whose British citizenship was removed after he was accused of being a Russian intelligence agent, lost his appeal on Friday to restore his citizenship at a London tribunal. The man, who says he worked for Britain’s Foreign Office and security agency GCHQ, had his citizenship revoked in 2019 after …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Sterling was on track for a weekly gain versus the dollar on Friday, as currency traders look ahead to key data releases next week that could point to how quickly the Bank of England may cut interest rates. The pound edged down 0.1% on the day to $1.2656, but was on track …
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