Press play to take heed to this text Voiced by synthetic intelligence. LONDON — The person who signed the U.Ok.’s bold local weather pledge into legislation is quitting — and it’s not clear anybody else desires to step into the breach. Chris Skidmore was power minister below Theresa Might and …
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LONDON — Public sector staff on strike, the cost-of-living climbing, and a authorities on the ropes. “It’s hard to miss the parallels” between the notorious ‘Winter of Discontent’ of 1978-79 and Britain in 2023, says Robert Saunders, historian of contemporary Britain at Queen Mary, College of London. Admittedly, the comparability …
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Press play to take heed to this text Voiced by synthetic intelligence. LONDON — Labour chief Keir Starmer as soon as had to ask his own team to cease telling journalists that he’s uninteresting. His shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, was famously branded “boring, snoring” by a prime TV government. However …
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A seven-year-old girl is fighting for life after she was gunned down in a drive-by shooting at a church funeral. Four women and a girl, 12, were also blasted when a gunman opened fire in broad daylight from a car near Euston station, central London, in a street packed with …
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Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. LONDON — Britain and the EU are close to resolving another key area of dispute over post-Brexit trade in Northern Ireland, as the two sides prepare to enter intensified talks next week. Negotiators are finalizing a solution to a …
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BELFAST — A top-level British diplomatic mission designed to soothe tensions over the Northern Ireland trade protocol instead opened new divisions Wednesday when the leader of Sinn Féin was unexpectedly barred. U.K. government officials offered conflicting explanations for blocking Mary Lou McDonald from the Northern Ireland Office meeting with Foreign …
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Paul Anderson is a former editor of and columnist for Tribune. It’s not unusual in British politics to observe that Labour leader Keir Starmer is channeling former Prime Minister Tony Blair — the last leader from his party to win a general election. Supporters of Starmer’s hard-left predecessor Jeremy Corbyn …
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LONDON — All the current British opinion polls suggest the opposition Labour Party is heading for government at the next election. So will its bid to don Brexiteer clothes convince the public? As it heads for power, Labour’s most senior politicians have certainly seemed comfortable stealing the words of conservative heroes. …
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