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Inflation-fighting BoE poised to unleash big rate hike
AFP, Published on 04/08/2022
» LONDON: The Bank of England is expected Thursday to follow other major central banks with an aggressive interest rate hike to tackle surging inflation.
UK PM rivals spar over tax in first head-to-head primetime TV debate
AFP, Published on 26/07/2022
» LONDON - Britain's two prime ministerial contenders clashed fiercely over tax Monday night in their first head-to-head televised debate, as former finance minister Rishi Sunak seeks to peg back the frontrunner, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss.
Sunak or Truss to be Britain's next PM
AFP, Published on 21/07/2022
» LONDON - Conservative rivals Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, offering competing answers to Britain's multiple crises, will duel in the coming weeks to become the next prime minister after the party's lawmakers held a concluding vote Wednesday.
Sunak widens lead in race to become UK PM after party vote
AFP, Published on 19/07/2022
» LONDON - Former finance minister Rishi Sunak widened his lead in the latest round of voting Monday by Conservative MPs to decide Britain's next prime minister, but the race to get in the final two tightened.
Who could take over as UK prime minister?
AFP, Published on 14/07/2022
» The race to replace Boris Johnson as Conservative leader and Britain's prime minister is down to five candidates after the second round of voting among Tory MPs on Thursday.
UK 'jobs miracle' turns into employers' nightmare
AFP, Published on 14/07/2022
» KESWICK: Job vacancies seem to come ten-a-penny in Keswick, a tourist town in England's picturesque Lake District, as the hospitality sector cries out for staff -- shortages which are a direct result, critics say, of the coronavirus pandemic and of Brexit.
Several Tory heavyweights enter already fractious race to replace Johnson
AFP, Published on 10/07/2022
» LONDON: A trio of Conservative heavyweights, including former health ministers Sajid Javid and Jeremy Hunt, late Saturday announced their bids to succeed Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meaning eight contenders have entered the already acrimonious leadership race.
British MPs jockey to succeed Johnson
AFP, Published on 09/07/2022
» LONDON: Britain's defence secretary, one of the favourites in polls to replace Prime Minister Boris Johnson, announced on Saturday that he would not throw his hat into the already acrimonious leadership race.
Explainer: Why is Boris Johnson still prime minister?
AFP, Published on 08/07/2022
» LONDON: Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced his resignation but is going nowhere for now -- and British voters get no say in his successor. Why?
Brexit to exit: The rise and fall of Boris Johnson
AFP, Published on 07/07/2022
» LONDON - Boris Johnson rode his luck throughout his career, bouncing back from a succession of setbacks and scandals that would have sunk other less popular politicians.