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By Elizabeth Piper, Andrew MacAskill and Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s interior minister quit on Wednesday with a broadside at Liz Truss before her lawmakers openly quarrelled in parliament, underscoring the erosion of the prime minister’s authority after just weeks in the job. The departure of Suella Braverman, over a “technical” breach of government …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Suella Braverman quit as interior minister on Wednesday, saying she had to go after she breached government rules but that she had concerns over the direction of Prime Minister Liz Truss’s government. The second senior minister to leave the government in less than a week, Braverman’s departure heaps yet more pressure …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s new interior minister, Grant Shapps, praised Jeremy Hunt on Wednesday, saying that while the government was having a difficult time, the country’s new finance minister, Hunt, was doing a great job. Prime Minister Liz Truss, who initially built a cabinet of ministers loyal to her, has lost two of her most …

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LONDON (Reuters) – It is important cabinet confidentiality is respected, British Prime Minister Liz Truss said in a letter to Suella Braverman on Wednesday after the interior minister resigned for breaching rules about sharing sensitive government information. “I accept your resignation and respect the decision you have made. It is important the ministerial code is …

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LONDON (Reuters) – The British government on Wednesday won a vote in parliament on fracking it had earlier told Conservative lawmakers it was treating as a confidence vote. Members of parliament voted by 326 to 230 against introducing a ban on fracking for shale gas. (Reporting by Kylie MacLellan; Editing by Alistair Smout)

LONDON (Reuters) – British Conservative lawmaker Wendy Morton, who is the member of the government responsible for enforcing party discipline, has resigned, the Sun reported on Wednesday. (Reporting by Muvija M, Editing by Kylie MacLellan)

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran designated several British people and institutions on Wednesday for their “deliberate actions in support of terrorism, incitement of violence, and human rights violations,” Iran’s foreign ministry said. The sanctions, published on the ministry’s Telegram page, include a ban on issuing visas and other ineffectual moves such as the seizure of designated …

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ROME (Reuters) -Consultations on the formation of Italy’s new government, which is widely expected to be led by nationalist leader Giorgia Meloni, will be held on Oct. 20 and 21, President Sergio Mattarella’s office said on Wednesday. Meloni led a rightist bloc comprising her Brothers of Italy party, Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia and Matteo Salvini’s …

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By Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) – British Defence Minister Ben Wallace met his U.S counterpart in Washington this week to discuss shared security concerns about the situation in Ukraine, a senior defence source said in response to speculation around the sudden trip. Following advances by Ukrainian forces to retake land in the east of the …

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