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By Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s interior minister Suella Braverman defended her policy to remove almost all migrants who arrive without permission, saying her political opponents were “naive do-gooders” and there had has been “too much” immigration in recent years. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said that stopping asylum seekers arriving on the south …

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By Natalie Grover and Maggie Fick LONDON (Reuters) -HSBC’s rescue of the British arm of Silicon Valley Bank saved the heavily-exposed UK biotech sector from collapse, but the fallout could hamper funding in a sector the government sees as key to future economic growth, industry executives said.  The move brought an end to frantic weekend …

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By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s top listed and private companies on Monday were called on to meet broader voluntary targets for appointing ethnically diverse board members and senior staff by 2027. The Parker Review Committee was set up by government in 2015 and recommended ethnic diversity targets for the boards of Britain’s top …

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(Reuters) – Royal Mail and the Communications Workers Union (CWU) have agreed to extend talks in order to try and reach an agreement over pay and employment terms, the postal company and the CWU said in a joint statement on Monday. More than 110,000 postal workers at Royal Mail held several nation-wide strikes in 2022, …

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By Sarah Young and Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s BBC reinstated its highest-paid presenter Gary Lineker on Monday after its suspension of the former England football captain for criticising state immigration policy brought a public backlash and near mutiny at the public broadcaster. Embarrassingly for the BBC, it had to axe core weekend sports coverage …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Thousands of junior doctors in Britain walked out on Monday in a three-day strike that will disrupt patient care, as they protest over pay they say can work out at less per hour than a barista. The strike is the latest involving staff at Britain’s state-funded National Health Service (NHS), following walkouts …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Finance minister Jeremy Hunt said on Monday the rescue of SVB’s UK arm by HSBC was necessary to help protect some of Britain’s most important technology companies. “We were faced with a situation where we could have seen some of our most important companies, our most strategic companies wiped out and that …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s finance minister Jeremy Hunt said the government and the Bank of England had facilitated a private sale of the UK arm of Silicon Valley Bank to HSBC, in a move which would protect deposits without taxpayer support. The Bank of England said the wider UK banking system remained safe, sound, and …

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