LONDON (Reuters) – British defence minister Grant Shapps said he was pretty confident that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak would address the future of the HS2 high speed rail line when he makes his speech at the Conservative Party conference on Wednesday. “Lots of people have said that there’ll be something on HS2 in it. I …
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By Peter Hall MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) -Manchester United’s miserable season continued with a 3-2 home defeat by Galatasaray as Casemiro was sent off giving away a penalty which Mauro Icardi missed before scoring the winner to leave the hosts bottom of Champions League Group A on Tuesday. Looking to put a fourth Premier League defeat …
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By Julien Pretot and Nicolas Delame LENS, France (Reuters) -RC Lens forward Elye Wahi scored one goal and set up another as his side beat Arsenal 2-1 to top Champions League Group B as they celebrated the return of Europe’s premium club competition to their turf in flamboyant style on Tuesday. The 20-year-old, who joined …
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(Reuters) – A lapse of concentration and loss of focus by the VAR led to Liverpool not being awarded a legitimate goal against Tottenham Hotspur, the referees’ body in England said on Tuesday after releasing the audio from the VAR hub from Saturday’s Premier League match. Liverpool should have taken the lead in the first …
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MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – British business and trade minister Kemi Badenoch said there was a “zero” chance of a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States under President Joe Biden’s administration, citing his attitude to such deals. Biden has frozen FTA talks with countries including Britain. Asked at an event at the Conservative Party …
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By Elizabeth Piper, Andrew MacAskill and Alistair Smout MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) -British finance minister Jeremy Hunt attacked what he called the “utterly unacceptable” cost of Britain’s HS2 high-speed railway on Tuesday after his boss, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, said he was considering whether or not to go ahead with the project. At the Conservative Party’s …
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By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank of England said on Tuesday it will check the health of general insurers in 2025 with a ‘stress test’ that includes a rapid series of shocks, as sector capital rules are eased. Regulators have introduced stress tests since the global financial crisis of 2008 to check if …
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MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – British finance minister Jeremy Hunt said on Tuesday he would love to lower taxes in the run-up to a national election expected next year, but added that any tax cut at the moment would be inflationary. Hunt said that reducing taxes at a fiscal event in November would not be possible …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s interior minister Suella Braverman warned on Tuesday that the United Kingdom had become tied up in an international set of migration rules that were designed for another era. “Our country has become enmeshed in a dense net of international rules that were designed for another era,” Braverman said in a speech …
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By Elizabeth Piper MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – Britain’s government is optimistic it will soon find a formula to persuade Northern Ireland’s largest pro-British party to return to the power-sharing regional government it quit over Brexit rules, the Northern Ireland minister said on Tuesday. Asked if he could see the Democratic Unionist Party returning to the …
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