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UK transport minister says ‘still the case’ PM Truss will fight next election

LONDON (Reuters) – British transport minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan said she believed Prime Minister...

20th October, 2022

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UK fund managers Schroders and Jupiter’s assets fall on volatile markets

(Reuters) -British fund managers Schroders and Jupiter on Thursday reported a decline in assets unde...

20th October, 2022

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UK interior minister Braverman quits over security issue, criticises government

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Suella Braverman quit as interior minister on Wednesday, saying she had...

20th October, 2022

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UK government’s party discipline enforcers still in post – PM Truss’s office

LONDON (Reuters) – British Conservative lawmaker Wendy Morton, the member of the government responsi...

20th October, 2022

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Banks brace for tax hit to help plug UK’s budget gap

By Iain Withers and Lawrence White LONDON (Reuters) -British banks are bracing for a potential tax h...

19th October, 2022

Image for FTSE slips as UK inflation returns to 40-year high, banks under pressure
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FTSE slips as UK inflation returns to 40-year high, banks under pressure

By Sruthi Shankar (Reuters) -UK’s main stock indexes fell on Wednesday after data showed consumer pr...

19th October, 2022

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UK fund managers suffer asset declines on shaky markets

By Sinchita Mitra and Yadarisa Shabong (Reuters) – A quartet of British fund managers said assets un...

19th October, 2022

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Analysis-UK crisis forces ‘off kilter’ businesses to halt investment

By Kate Holton and James Davey LONDON (Reuters) – British company owners are pulling investments as...

18th October, 2022

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UK gilt yields rise as BoE pooh-poohs report of delay to bond sales

LONDON (Reuters) – British government bond yields rose after the Bank of England said it had not dec...

18th October, 2022

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Ryanair boss blames Brexit for UK economic ‘car crash’

By Alvise Armellini ROME (Reuters) -Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary on Tuesday described the economic s...

18th October, 2022

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Bond vigilantes mean business, governments better beware

(This Oct. 17 story has been refiled to add a dropped word in paragraph 2.) By Marc Jones and Yoruk...

18th October, 2022

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UK’s Truss: ‘Sorry’ for the mistakes, but ‘I’m sticking around’

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s Prime Minister Liz Truss apologised for “mistakes” in her programme that...

18th October, 2022