By Elizabeth Piper, Alistair Smout and Andrew MacAskill MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) -British finance minister Jeremy Hunt set out plans on Monday to freeze and then cut the number of government workers to save up to 1 billion pounds ($1.2 billion), an attempt to appease some in his own Conservative Party noisily demanding tax cuts. While …
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MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – British finance minister Jeremy Hunt said on Monday he would tighten banking rules to make sure customers could not have their accounts closed just because others disagree with their political views. The practice known as “debanking” became a political issue after former Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said his account at …
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(Reuters) – Britain’s drugs regulator on Monday approved GSK’s drug, Jemperli, to be used with chemotherapy for cancer of the womb lining as a first line treatment. Jemperli is now authorised to be used together with chemotherapy to slow the progression of endometrial cancers, increasing life expectancy for patients, the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products …
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LONDON (Reuters) – The British government on Monday launched a review of regulators across the economy in an effort to seek out what it described as post-Brexit regulatory advantages. “I want us to use our Brexit freedoms to scrap unnecessary regulations that hold back firms and hamper growth,” business and trade minister Kemi Badenoch said …
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MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – British finance minister Jeremy Hunt said on Monday he would freeze the expansion of the country’s civil service and intended to return it to its pre-pandemic size, a plan which he said would save up to 1 billion pounds ($1.21 billion) next year. Hunt said that Britain employed 66,000 more civil …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Crown Estate said on Monday it has amended plans for an offshore wind licensing round which aims to create floating wind technology off the coast of Wales and south-west England to make more capacity available to bidders. The licensing round next year will be the first phase of development in the …
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By Muvija M LONDON (Reuters) – It was a pointed comment about her Afro-braided hair that spurred Ruth Essel to carve out what she calls a safe space for Black dancers. The founder of Pointe Black Ballet School in London said when she was a child, teachers and assistants all but punished her for not …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Rolls-Royce and five other firms have passed the first stage of Britain’s competition to select developers of small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs), the government said on Monday. Britain is seeking increase its nuclear power capacity to 24 gigawatts (GW) by 2050 as part of efforts to meet climate targets and boost energy security, …
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MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) -British finance minister Jeremy Hunt said on Monday he believed in lowering taxes but could not commit to any cuts before the next election, responding to growing calls in the governing Conservative Party to reduce the burden on voters. At the party’s annual conference in the northern English city of Manchester, senior …
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MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – British foreign minister James Cleverly knocked back a suggestion by another government minister on Sunday that leaving the European Convention of Human Rights was needed so the country could better tackle illegal immigration. In a growing row over how best to achieve one of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s priorities to …
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