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UK Farage's election gamble could see him face one challenger — Count Binface
A gamble by Nigel Farage, leader of Britain's populist Reform UK, to trigger an election for his own parliamentary seat could mean the only opponent he will face during campaigni...
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UK jobs market downturn eases as pay pressure pick up, survey shows
Britain's jobs market downturn eased slightly last month, according to a survey of recruitment companies on Wednesday that showed an upturn in temporary hiring and starting salar...
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Prince Harry's war with UK press is over, and he's lost
Some eight years after Prince Harry went into open legal conflict against the British tabloid press, winning a number of high-profile court battles against big media organisations ...
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London's FTSE 100 edges up as Shell lifts energy stocks
The UK's FTSE 100 index edged higher on Tuesday, as Shell-led gains in energy stocks offset weakness in precious metals miners.
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UK's Farage to make statement on his future on Tuesday
Nigel Farage, the leader of populist party Reform UK, said on Tuesday he would be making a statement on his future in public life at 2 p.m. (1300 GMT).
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UK will need vast fiscal tightening to avert debt spiral, OBR predicts
Britain will need extra tax rises or spending cuts equivalent to the entire education budget early next decade to prevent government debt spiralling higher from current levels, th...
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Capita shares tumble as UK withholds payments for missing contract deadlines
Outsourcing firm Capita's shares fell more than 15% on Tuesday after the UK government withheld £9.9 million ($13.24 million) in payments for missing deadlines on a civil service ...
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Prince Harry in London on judgment day in his legal battle against the Daily Mail
Prince Harry, the estranged younger son of King Charles, will be in London without his wife and family when he hears later on Tuesday whether he has won a hugely expensive court ...
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UK's Beauty Tech raises annual sales, profit forecasts after strong first half
British at-home beauty device maker The Beauty Tech Group raised its annual revenue and profit forecasts on Tuesday, citing strong first-half growth across its core brands and ke...
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Young & Co's sales rise as good weather, soccer draw drinkers to pubs
British pub operator Young & Co's Brewery said on Tuesday its like-for-like sales rose nearly 6% in the first 14 weeks of its financial year as good weather and the soccer World ...
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UK house prices inched higher in June, Lloyds data shows
British house prices ticked higher in June, the first monthly increase since February, mortgage lender Lloyds said on Tuesday, though it cautioned the outlook remained clouded by...
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Prince Harry arrives in the UK, ITV News reports
Prince Harry has arrived in Britain ahead of his week of engagements, without his wife Meghan and their children, ITV News reported on Monday, after a royal source said he h...
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Britain, Netherlands, Finland, Poland say they are making progress on defence plan
Britain, the Netherlands, Finland and Poland are making "significant progress" on the new Multilateral Defence Mechanism and aim to establish it by 2027, the countries said in a ...
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UK's Burnham vows discipline on fiscal rules he may need to bend
Britain's prime minister-in-waiting, Andy Burnham, promises radical change while sticking to the country's fiscal rules, a strategy that needs discipline, luck, and maybe an old tr...
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Britain's FTSE indexes slip as miners offset financial gains
London's FTSE 100 edged lower on Monday as losses in precious metal miners outweighed gains in financial stocks, while investors assessed a string of merger and acquisition announc...
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UK sanctions Russians it says developed chemical weapons used to kill Navalny
Britain on Monday imposed sanctions on two Russian research institutes and senior staff it said were linked to Moscow's chemical weapons programme and involved in developing toxi...
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Rights group says jailed British couple in Iran continue hunger strike
Two Britons jailed in Iran on espionage charges are maintaining a hunger strike over prison conditions and have been denied adequate medical care and contact with their families, ...
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Prince Harry will not stay at Buckingham Palace during London visit, BBC says
Prince Harry will not stay at Buckingham Palace during his stay in Britain this week, the palace said, despite a spokesman for the king's second son telling media on Monday that h...
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