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A scandal: Not only for Boris Johnson
Jul 09, 2022 03:54British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has officially announced his resignation from the post, following calls from ministerial colleagues and lawmakers in his ruling Conservative Party over a slew of highly contentious issues, including Brexit, coronavirus pandemic, and successive scandals.
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Sajid Javid and Rishi Sunak quit – throwing Boris Johnson’s future into doubt
Jul 07, 2022 18:14The resignations of Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid, both considered potential future UK leadership contenders, came at a moment of significant danger for the prime minister. Elections to the 1922 Committee executive in coming days are expected to strengthen the hand of rebels hoping to call another vote of no confidence.
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Starmer ends Labour silence on Brexit as he rules out rejoining single market
Jul 07, 2022 18:11UK Labour Leader Keir Starmer says he will rebuild trust with EU on key areas of disagreement such as the Northern Ireland protocol and get ‘a better deal for the British people.’
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Stagflationary global debt crisis looms – and things will get much worse
Jul 04, 2022 09:38There is ample reason to fear big economies such as the US face recession and financial turmoil.
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Boris Johnson faces investigation into claims over 40 ‘new’ hospitals
Jul 04, 2022 09:31The National Audit Office (NAO) has made clear that it is concerned at how the UK government still maintains that it will build 40 entirely new hospitals, when in reality many will merely be extensions or refurbishments of existing ones.
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Banks and UK supermarkets charged with backing deforestation in Brazil
Jun 30, 2022 09:01An investigation said recently by funding and stocking products from Brazilian meat giant JBS, global financiers and UK supermarkets have supported land-grabbing and deforestation.
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Revealed: Dozens of vulnerable asylum seekers have died in UK Home Office housing since 2020
Jun 28, 2022 14:28New data obtained in a joint investigation by the Observer and Liberty Investigates has found at least 107 deaths of asylum seekers who were provided with Home Office housing between April 2016 and May 2022, far more than officially admitted, eighty-two have died since January 2020.
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British “watchdog” journalists unmasked as lap dogs for the security state
Jun 28, 2022 03:42Events of the past few days suggest British journalism – the so-called Fourth Estate – is not what it purports to be: a watchdog monitoring the centers of state power. It is quite the opposite.
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Data suggests UK at start of new COVID wave driven by BA.4 and BA.5
Jun 16, 2022 04:11Research shows natural infection with Omicron doesn’t produce a strong immune response, so people can quickly become reinfected.
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Brexit row could prompt exodus of senior scientists from UK
Jun 11, 2022 04:26At least 16 recipients of the European Research Council (ERC) grants making plans to reject UK offer and move their labs abroad as the UK remains frozen out of the EU’s flagship science programme.