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BELFAST (Reuters) – Division among Northern Ireland’s pro-British and pro-Irish parties over Brexit has prompted tactical electoral moves that put at risk some of the seats that had given the province’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) the balance of power in London. Deputy leader of the DUP, Nigel Dodds MP speaks at the Democratic Unionist Party

LONDON (Reuters) – The United States has pushed past Germany and France as the most common trading partner for British businesses, and looks set to keep this position after Britain leaves the European Union, according to an annual survey by HSBC. FILE PHOTO: U.S. and British flags stretch along The Mall towards Buckingham Palace in

FILE PHOTO: Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage is interviewed after speaking during the Brexit Party general election campaign launch in London, Britain November 1, 2019. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls/File Photo LONDON (Reuters) – The British election is likely to result in a hung parliament and the Brexit Party’s lawmakers could be kingmakers, leader Nigel Farage said on

FILE PHOTO: People walk through the Canary Wharf financial district of London, Britain, December 7, 2018. REUTERS/Simon Dawson LONDON (Reuters) – Confidence among British accountants in the economic outlook is falling at the fastest rate since the depths of the financial crisis more than a decade ago due to worries about Brexit and sluggish growth,

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage arrives to appear on BBC TV’s The Andrew Marr Show in London, Britain, November 3, 2019. REUTERS/Yara Nardi LONDON (Reuters) – Nigel Farage, the leader of Britain’s Brexit Party, said he would not stand in the next month’s election, choosing instead to campaign countywide against Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s EU

FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits Metropolitan Police training college in Hendon, London, Britain October 31, 2019. Aaron Chown/Pool via REUTERS (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party has an eight percentage-point lead over the opposition Labour Party, an ORB poll for the Sunday Telegraph showed, ahead of an election on

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will impose an immediate moratorium on fracking, the government announced on Saturday, saying the industry risked causing too much disruption to local communities through earth tremors. FILE PHOTO: Protest slogans are seen on fencing around a fracking site near Blackpool, Britain, October 22, 2018. REUTERS/Hannah McKay Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will impose an immediate moratorium on fracking, the government announced on Saturday, saying the industry risked causing too much disruption to local communities through earth tremors. FILE PHOTO: Protest slogans are seen on fencing around a fracking site near Blackpool, Britain, October 22, 2018. REUTERS/Hannah McKay Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government

LONDON (Reuters) – British punters will once again indulge their passion for a cash wager on their country’s political future as bookmakers open up bets on the outcome of the Dec. 12 national election. FILE PHOTO: Police officers guard a Liberal Democrat election campaign van from pro-Brexit supporters in Parliament Square in London, Britain October

LONDON (Reuters) – On the day Britain was supposed to have left the European Union, voters instead faced the start of an election campaign, with opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn pledging to overthrow a “rigged system” he said was run by billionaires and tax-dodgers. After failing to deliver Brexit by the Oct. 31 deadline, Prime

UXBRIDGE, England , (Reuters) – Over the next few weeks, Sunil Paul and thousands of voters like him in this commuter town on the edge of London will be among the most important people in British politics: they could decide Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s fate. Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson is seen on Downing Street in London,

FILE PHOTO: Imported cars are parked at Sheerness port, Sheerness, Britain, October 24, 2017. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls LONDON (Reuters) – British car output dropped by an annual 3.8% in September, hit by weakening demand overseas and political and economic uncertainty at home as Brexit remains unresolved, an industry body said on Thursday. Production stood at 122,256

LONDON (Reuters) – Combustible materials used to refurbish London’s Grenfell Tower were central to the catastrophic chain of events in June 2017 that turned an ordinary kitchen fire into an inferno that killed 71 people, an official inquiry said on Wednesday. A copy of the Grenfell Tower inquiry is seen during a news conference in

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will hold its first December election in almost a century after Prime Minister Boris Johnson won approval from parliament on Tuesday for an early ballot aimed at breaking the Brexit deadlock. As the European Union granted a third delay to the divorce that was originally supposed to take place on March

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain was heading towards a December election on Tuesday after Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s bet on breaking the Brexit deadlock with an early vote gained support from opposition parties. Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves Downing Street to head for the Houses of Parliament in London, Britain October 28, 2019. REUTERS/Toby Melville

CHELMSFORD, England (Reuters) – A court heard on Monday that a global ring had been involved in smuggling the 39 people whose bodies were found in a truck near London, as the driver faced charges of manslaughter and people-trafficking. The discovery of the bodies last week in a refrigerated truck on an industrial estate near