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By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) -King Charles will travel to France and Germany on his first state visits since succeeding his mother Queen Elizabeth as British monarch last September, Buckingham Palace said on Friday. Charles will address the chambers of both European neighbours’ parliaments in a first for a British monarch during his busy five-day …

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By Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) – King Charles will travel to France on March 26-29 for his first state visit as Britain’s monarch, the French presidency said on Friday, in a further sign of warming relations between Paris and London after years of bad blood over Brexit. The visit, which will feature a state dinner …

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LONDON (Reuters) – The London Stock Exchange said on Friday that chip designer Arm’s decision to pursue a U.S.-only listing this year rather than return to London’s stock market showed Britain needed to speed up plans for regulatory and market reforms. Arm, owned by Japan’s SoftBank, is to pursue a U.S.-only listing this year, dashing …

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(Reuters) – Rishi Sunak is refusing to rush Britain back into the EU’s 95.5 billion euros ($101.32 billion) Horizon Europe research programme, the Financial Times reported on Friday. Once the new Brexit trade deal between Britain and the EU has been implemented, the EU can work on Britain joining Horizon Europe again, European Commission President …

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LONDON (Reuters) – British energy companies expect the government to change course and maintain its support for households for high gas and electricity bills at or near existing levels after the current package expires in April, reported the BBC on Friday. The companies are preparing to amend bills to reflect the current level of support …

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LONDON (Reuters) -Keir Starmer, the leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party, has picked as his new chief of staff Sue Gray, a government official whose investigation helped catalyse the exit of Boris Johnson as prime minister, the party said on Thursday. Gray, a senior civil servant with decades of government experience, came into the national …

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By William James and Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) -Boris Johnson criticised Rishi Sunak’s new post-Brexit deal with the European Union for Northern Ireland on Thursday, saying the prime minister had allowed the bloc to retain too much influence in the United Kingdom. Sunak struck a new deal on Monday to ease trade restrictions in the …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Northern Ireland minister Chris Heaton-Harris on Thursday said he had been encouraged by the reaction to a new agreement on trade with the European Union, rebutting criticism by former prime minister Boris Johnson. “I have been encouraged by the reaction to the Windsor Framework so far,” Heaton-Harris said, after Johnson said …

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