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Jill Lawless LONDON (AP) – As he makes tough decisions to stem Britain’s economic crisis, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he will “always protect the most vulnerable”. But the United Kingdom’s(UK) first prime minister of colour is also its richest-ever leader – an ex-banker who once wore Prada loafers to visit a construction site and […]
Danica Kirka LONDON (AP) – Harmeet Singh Gill was excited to hear that Rishi Sunak would become Britain’s first prime minister of colour – news that came as he celebrated the Diwali festival in a London neighbourhood sometimes called Little India. “It’s almost a watershed moment,” the 31-year-old said as he volunteered at the cavernous […]
LONDON (AP) – Rishi Sunak became Britain’s third prime minister of the year yesterday and now must turn his attention to an economic crisis that has left the country’s finances in a precarious state and millions of Britons struggling to afford food and energy bills. Sunak, the United Kingdom’s first leader of colour, met at […]
LONDON (AP) – Former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak became Britain’s first prime minister of colour after being chosen on Monday to lead a governing Conservative Party desperate for a safe pair of hands to guide the country through economic and political turbulence. The challenges facing the United Kingdom’s (UK) third prime minister this year are […]
LONDON (AFP) – Conservative rivals Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak held face-to-face talks late Saturday, reports said, as the feuding pair who once headed Britain’s government were poised to battle for the leadership of their fractured ruling party. Former prime minister Johnson, who returned from a Caribbean holiday earlier in the day aiming to launch […]
Sylvia Hui & Jill Lawless LONDON (AP) – Liz Truss became prime minister on a promise to open a new era of growth by shaking up Britain’s economy. But the tumult that resulted was not exactly what she had in mind: Markets recoiled, the pound currency dived, her party revolted – and, in the end, […]
LONDON (AFP) – Britain’s new finance minister Jeremy Hunt warned on Saturday of looming tax hikes as he dramatically reversed course on right-wing Prime Minister Liz Truss’s radical programme of economic reform. Senior Conservative members of parliament were reportedly plotting to unseat Truss, possibly within days, aghast at the party’s collapse in opinion polls since […]
SEOUL (AFP) – World number two Casper Ruud crashed out of the Korea Open quarter-finals on Friday to 56th-ranked Yoshihito Nishioka, while Britain’s Cameron Norrie pulled out ill. Japan’s Nishioka had the top seed and US Open finalist on the back foot from the start, breaking his first service game without allowing the Norwegian to […]
Jennifer Peltz UNITED NATIONS (AP) – This year’s United Nations (UN) General Assembly meeting of world leaders came on the heels of another event that reverberated internationally – the death of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, followed by both an outpouring of tributes and sometimes bitter reflection on the colonialist empire that came to an end […]
LONDON (AP) – Inflation in the United Kingdom (UK) slowed slightly last month as a drop in gasoline and diesel fuel prices gave consumers the first glimmer of hope that Britain’s cost-of-living crisis may be beginning to ease. The consumer price index (CPI) rose 9.9 per cent in the 12 months through August, the Office […]