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NEWRY, Northern Ireland (Reuters) – Charges of historical sex offences against the former leader of Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), Jeffrey Donaldson, can proceed to trial, a judge ruled on Wednesday after prosecutors presented further charges. Donaldson, 61, stepped down suddenly as head of the British region’s largest unionist party in March after the …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Labour Party is projected to win Thursday’s national election with a large majority, returning to power after 14 years in opposition. Below are some of the party’s main domestic policy plans, set out in its manifesto ahead of the July 4 vote: ECONOMY Labour has said sustained economic growth will be …

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LONDON (Reuters) – British investors added a record 11.4 billion pounds ($14.5 billion) into equity funds over the first six months of 2024, as the prospect of further central bank interest rate cuts fuelled demand for riskier assets, according to fund network Calastone. The flows into stocks were the highest for a half-year period in …

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By William James LONDON (Reuters) – Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson made a surprise appearance in the British election campaign on Tuesday, issuing a last-ditch bid to rally support for the Conservatives and their leader Rishi Sunak, the man who helped turf him out of office. Johnson won a big majority at the last election …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Labour Party is set to sweep to power with a record number of seats at Thursday’s national election, a forecast by polling company Survation showed on Tuesday. Survation’s central scenario showed Keir Starmer’s Labour winning 484 of the 650 seats in parliament, far more than the 418 won by the party’s …

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LONDON (Reuters) – As Britain’s election campaign enters its final stretch, the work of opinion pollsters is back in the spotlight with several recent projections of a record victory for the opposition Labour Party grabbing the headlines. Labour’s ample 20-point opinion poll lead has hardly budged since Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the July 4 …

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By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) -Former nurse Lucy Letby was found guilty on Tuesday of trying to murder another newborn baby, adding to convictions last year that made her Britain’s most prolific serial child killer of modern times. Letby, 34, was found guilty last August of murdering seven babies and trying to kill six more …

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LONDON (Reuters) – The Labour Party’s lead over the governing Conservatives narrowed in an opinion poll published on Tuesday, two days before Britain’s general election, but Keir Starmer’s centre-left party remains on course for a comfortable victory. The poll by Redfield and Wilton showed the Conservatives up 3 percentage points on 22%, while Labour dipped …

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LONDON (Reuters) – A British man was convicted on Tuesday of planning an attack on a military base after being arrested with an explosive device in the grounds of a hospital, Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service said. Mohammad Farooq was found guilty of preparing acts of terrorism following a trial at Sheffield Crown Court, in northern …

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