(Reuters) – Britain’s newly elected Prime Minister Keir Starmer has killed off a deportation plan that would see migrants who arrived in the UK illegally sent to Rwanda on his first day on the job, the Telegraph reported on Friday, citing Labour sources, calling the plan “effectively dead.” Starmer had earlier promised to scrap the …
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(Reuters) – Britain’s newly appointed health secretary, Wes Streeting, will hold talks next week with junior doctors to end an industrial strike action, he said in a statement on Friday. The British Medical Association (BMA), which represents around 50,000 junior doctors, said in May that they would strike for five days immediately before Britain’s July …
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By Suban Abdulla LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s new Prime Minister Keir Starmer will oversee a parliament more ethnically diverse and more female than ever after securing a landslide victory in the election on Thursday that ended 14 years of Conservative rule. Black, Asian and ethnic minority lawmakers will represent around 13% of the House of …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden called new British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday to congratulate him after his Labour Party’s landslide victory in a parliamentary election, the White House said. “The leaders reaffirmed the special relationship between our nations and the importance of working together in support of freedom and democracy around …
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By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) -Nigel Farage was elected to parliament on Friday, marking the emergence of his populist Reform UK as a new force in British politics squeezing the Conservative vote from the right wing. Farage, a driving force behind Britain’s decision to leave the European Union, only entered the race last month, a …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Labour surged to a landslide victory in Britain’s parliamentary election, ending 14 years of often tumultuous Conservative government and propelling Keir Starmer to power as prime minister. WHAT WERE THE RESULTS? With 648 of the 650 seats in parliament’s House of Commons declared, here are the results: Labour – 412 seats, 33.7% vote …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Labour surged to a landslide victory in Britain’s parliamentary election, ending 14 years of often tumultuous Conservative government and propelling Keir Starmer to power as prime minister. WHAT WERE THE RESULTS? With 648 of the 650 seats in parliament’s House of Commons declared, here are the results: Labour – 412 seats, 33.7% vote …
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LONDON (Reuters) – On a night of sweeping change across British politics, one thing at the heart of the government remained the same on Friday morning: Larry the Downing Street cat. The white and tabby cat, who bears the official title Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office, was seen padding around the famous high gloss …
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By Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) -The recriminations and jostling for top positions among Britain’s Conservative lawmakers began long before Thursday’s crushing election defeat to Labour that some party figures said left the party facing the prospect of a decade out of power. After 14 years in government – the last eight marked by chaos and …
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By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) -Labour’s David Lammy becomes Britain’s next foreign secretary pledging to reset relations with the European Union and push for a ceasefire in Gaza, while seeking to build ties with Donald Trump’s Republican Party. The centre-left Labour Party won a landslide victory in Thursday’s parliamentary election, ending 14 years of Conservative …
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