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LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Rishi Sunak could face the prospect of another difficult election for a potential vacant seat in parliament, after a lawmaker lost an appeal against a proposed eight-week suspension for groping two men at a London club. Chris Pincher, who now sits as an independent, was suspended from the ruling Conservative …

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By Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s opposition Labour leader, Keir Starmer, launched a reshuffle of his top team on Monday to fight a national election expected next year, appointing his deputy Angela Rayner as the party’s levelling up policy chief. Rayner, a popular lawmaker among the party’s members, will take the higher profile role which …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Simple Online Pharmacy, a UK-based online pharmacy chain, told Reuters on Monday that it would sell Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss drug Wegovy in the range of 149 pounds to 299 pounds ($188-$377). It was the first indication from a pharmacy of how much the popular drug would cost in Britain after Novo announced …

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(Reuters) – UK’s FTSE 100 opened higher on Monday, led by mining stocks after China rolled out new measures to prop up its stuttering economy, while London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) rose on the back of plans for a blockchain-based digital assets business. The exporter-heavy FTSE 100 index gained 0.6% by 0703 GMT, while the …

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LONDON (Reuters) – British finance minister Jeremy Hunt said on Sunday the government would move to fix unsafe school buildings quickly after some 100 schools were told to shut some buildings due to old and crumbling concrete. The order last week for schools to vacate buildings with Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) came just days …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s opposition Labour Party has a 14-point lead over Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s ruling Conservatives, an opinion poll by market research company Opinium showed on Saturday as lawmakers prepare to return to parliament after the summer break. The Opinium poll, based on a survey of 2,055 British adults carried out between Aug. …

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MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – England’s Johnny Bairstow and Harry Brook smashed half centuries before debutant Gus Atkinson took four wickets to power England to a 2-0 lead over New Zealand in their four-match Twenty20 International series with a 95-run victory on Friday. After winning the toss and opting to bat, Bairstow finished with an unbeaten …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain has experienced its eighth warmest summer since 1884 thanks to record-breaking June temperatures, the country’s national weather service said on Friday. The Met Office said the average mean temperature during the meteorological summer season was 15.4 degrees Celsius (59.7 degrees Fahrenheit), around 0.8 C warmer than average. It was also a …

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