London has lost its crown as the home of Europe’s largest stock market to Paris for the first time since records began in 2003. Stock values in Paris have wiped out a $1.4 trillion gap to London share values in the six years since the Brexit vote, according to Bloomberg. Shares traded in the French […]
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Police have arrested and held for 13 hours a documentary filmmaker and a press photographer filming a Just Stop Oil protest on the M25. Police also searched one of their homes at 11pm and seized an iPad belonging to a daughter, claims filmmaker Rich Felgate who is making a documentary about Just Stop Oil. The […]
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Thousands of protesters marched in London with People’s Assembly to call for a general election. The “Britain is Broken” protest demanded government action on the cost of living crisis, better pay, the repeal of anti-union employment laws and against “Tory austerity”. Trade unionists, community organisations, protest groups and individuals were joined by supporters of CND, […]
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A man has firebombed a centre for Channel migrants in Dover before killing himself. Police said the man threw up to three incendiary devices at the reception of a processing centre for asylum seekers – the Western Jet Foil facility at the Port of Dover. Two people suffered minor injuries while the attacker – a […]
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“Extremely serious” and “concerning” reports that Liz Truss’s phone was hacked by Russia must be investigated say Labour and the Liberal Democrats. Truss’s personal phone was allegedly hacked by Russian agents during the summer Tory leadership campaign. They accessed details of the then foreign secretary’s communications with cabinet colleagues, international allies and highly sensitive information. […]
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Suella Braverman has been reappointed home secretary less than a week after plunging Liz Truss’s government into a death spiral. The successor Rishi Sunak started his first hours as prime minister with a reshuffle of the cabinet and a pledge to fix the “mistakes” made by Truss’s government. Sunak warned of “difficult decisions” ahead before […]
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The UK’s new prime minister Rishi Sunak has warned the country that “there is no doubt we face a profound economic challenge.” In his first comments after being named PM Sunak said: “We now need stability and unity, and I will make it my utmost priority to bring our party and our country together.” Behind […]
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Rishi Sunak is set to become the UK’s third prime minister this year after Boris Johnson dropped out of the Conservative party leadership race. While Johnson never formally declared his candidacy, he withdrew from the leadership race despite claiming in a statement that he had “cleared the very high hurdle of 102 nominations” from Tory […]
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According to some MPs, the PM has 12 hours to save her job. Her position yesterday became even more untenable after the resignation of Suella Braverman. At this point, the Conservative party is in utter disarray. The trouble is, no one knows how this will play out. All options open appear to end in electoral […]
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Sir Keir Starmer is calling for an immediate general election regardless of whether Liz Truss remains in No 10 or is forced out by her party. “Change in personnel at the top of the Tory party is not the change we need. We need a change of government,” said Starmer, after Truss sacked Kwasi Kwarteng […]
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