LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak declined on Thursday to apologise for a gender identity jibe at opposition leader Keir Starmer, which drew criticism in the light of the widely reported recent murder of a transgender girl. Sunak’s Conservatives, trailing badly in opinion polls ahead of an election this year, have increasingly sought …
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By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) -Prince William thanked the British public for their kind messages about his wife Kate following her recent surgery and about his father King Charles after he was diagnosed with cancer as he returned to official duties on Wednesday. As William took centre stage for the royals, his younger brother Prince …
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(This Feb. 7 story has been corrected to say ‘car finance,’ not ‘car insurance,’ in the headline and paragraph 1) LONDON (Reuters) – The financial fallout from a regulatory probe into potentially unfair commission charged on customers for car finance is not expected to undermine financial stability, Bank of England Deputy Governor Sam Woods said …
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LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak joked that the leader of the opposition Labour Party could not define what a woman was, during a parliamentary exchange on Wednesday that the mother of a murdered transgender girl had been invited to watch. Last week, two teenagers were jailed for the murder of Brianna Ghey, who …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s housing market recovered further in January with new buyer enquiries at their strongest in almost two years, a closely watched measure of the property market showed on Thursday. The Royal Institution of Chartered Survey’s (RICS) gauge of new buyer enquiries, showing the difference between chartered surveyors reporting rises and falls, increased …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s labour market cooled in January as pay growth in new permanent jobs eased to the lowest level in almost three years, according to a survey that might boost Bank of England officials’ confidence that inflation pressures are subsiding. The monthly gauge of permanent staff salaries from the Recruitment and Employment Confederation …
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By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – A superwatchdog is needed as part of Britain’s post-Brexit reset to better hold “increasingly politicised” watchdogs to account, though without impinging on their ability to act independently, a report from the upper house of parliament said on Thursday. The report was triggered by concerns in previous inquiries over the …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain on Thursday said it would extend tariff-free trade with Ukraine on almost all goods until 2029, giving continued favourable trading terms to Kyiv in the wake of Russia’s invasion. Britain removed tariffs on all its trade with Ukraine after the war with Russia started two years ago, and previously they had …
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By Sachin Ravikumar LONDON (Reuters) -The British government set out a 200 million pound ($253 million) plan on Wednesday to try to fix a struggling state-run dental system which has left millions of Britons without access to affordable treatment. Released two days after television pictures showed hundreds of patients queueing to register at one newly-opened …
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LONDON (Reuters) -London’s Old Bailey court is expected to remain closed for business on Thursday, after it was evacuated on Wednesday due to a fire at a nearby electrical substation. The Central Criminal Court, better known as the Old Bailey, hears many of Britain’s most serious criminal cases. Several ongoing cases at the court are …
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