LONDON (Reuters) -British transport minister Grant Shapps will run in the contest to replace Prime Minister Boris Johnson, he told the Sunday Times newspaper, joining what is expected to be an increasingly crowded field. Shapps has ruled out holding a national election if successful, but would produce an emergency budget within his first 100 days …
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LONDON (Reuters) -British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, one of the favourites to succeed Prime Minister Boris Johnson, said on Saturday he had decided not to run in the leadership contest. Wallace, 52, has risen in recent months to overtake Foreign Secretary Liz Truss as the most popular member of the government with Conservative Party members, …
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(Reuters) – England coach Brendon McCullum said the term “Bazball”, used to describe the team’s new swashbuckling approach to test cricket since his appointment, is “silly,” adding that there is more to England’s style of play than all-out attack. England, who had been mired in a run of one win in 17 tests, brought in …
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(Reuters) – Russia is moving reserve forces from across the country and assembling them near Ukraine for future offensive operations, British military intelligence said on Saturday. A large proportion of the new Russian infantry units are probably deploying with MT-LB armoured vehicles taken from long-term storage as their primary transport, Britain’s Ministry of Defence tweeted …
(Reuters) – British Conservative MP Kemi Badenoch said on Saturday she is launching a bid to serve as UK’s next prime minister to replace Boris Johnson. “I’m putting myself forward in this leadership election because I want to tell the truth,” she wrote in The Times newspaper. Badenoch’s announcement came after former British finance minister …
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(Reuters) – Britain’s Conservative Party lawmaker Steve Baker has endorsed Attorney General Suella Braverman to replace Boris Johnson as the next prime minister, The Telegraph reported on Friday. “With immovable loyalty, I am backing Suella for Conservative leader and prime minister,” Steve Baker wrote in the paper. Former British Finance Minister Rishi Sunak said on …
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By William James and Farouq Suleiman LONDON (Reuters) -British former finance minister Rishi Sunak said on Friday he was running to replace Boris Johnson, three days after helping to launch the cascade of resignations that brought the prime minister down. Johnson announced on Thursday that he would stand down as prime minister after a mass …
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian police said on Friday that they had arrested a man known as “Colombia” as authorities investigate his possible involvement in the killings of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the Amazon rainforest. The two men disappeared in early June in a remote area of jungle on …
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By Michael Holden and Muvija M LONDON (Reuters) – As many as a dozen candidates were on Friday eyeing up replacing Boris Johnson as British prime minister after he was forced to quit by his own party, with opponents saying they want him out of Downing Street immediately. Johnson said on Thursday that he would …
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LONDON (Reuters) -The leader of the British opposition Labour Party on Friday said he would try to bring about a national election using a vote of confidence in Prime Minister Boris Johnson next week unless Conservative lawmakers acted to remove him earlier. Johnson has said he will resign when a new Conservative Party leader is …
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