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Tag: United Kingdom

  • Tuesday, May 8th 2018 - 08:59 UTC

    Guterres praises UK contribution to UN, “Brexit or no Brexit”

    Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today program, Guterres warned that the Security Council was “paralyzed” on a number of key issues, such as the war in Syria

    Britain will remain a “very important pillar” of the United Nations after Brexit, the organization's secretary general has said. Antonio Guterres’s comments appear to contradict the fears of some opponents of Brexit that the UK’s withdrawal from the EU might throw into question its position as one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, alongside the US, Russia, China and France.

  • Monday, May 7th 2018 - 08:54 UTC

    British Embassy in Buenos Aires launches call for project bids for 2018

    The British Embassy in Argentina has been allocated program funds for UK financial year 2018/2019.

    The British Embassy is inviting all interested parties to submit their proposals for the British Embassy Buenos Aires Project Fund 2018. The British Embassy has been allocated program funds for UK financial year 2018/2019. The fund is part of the UK’s total Official Development Assistance (ODA) commitment of 0.7% of GNI.

  • Monday, May 7th 2018 - 08:25 UTC

    Lead case in UK: Cambridge Analytica must turn in all personal information on a US academic

    The ICO served notice to SCL Elections, Cambridge Analytica's parent, to provide the information it holds on David Carroll; failure would be a criminal offence

    Britain's data privacy watchdog has ordered Cambridge Analytica to hand over all the personal information it holds on a U.S. academic, confirming the right of people abroad to seek data held by a UK firm. Data privacy activists say that it sets a precedent that would enable millions of other U.S. voters to request information that the company had collected on them.

  • Monday, May 7th 2018 - 08:06 UTC

    Theresa May determined to deliver Brexit, but her cabinet remains divided, and so is opposition Labour

    Pro-EU Tories pushed for Mrs May to abandon red lines and keep UK in the single market, claiming she would have cross-party support in the House of Commons

    British Prime Minister Theresa May insisted she had the “determination to deliver Brexit” as she came under pressure from both wings of the Tory party to change course.

  • Saturday, May 5th 2018 - 08:50 UTC

    Labour party faces “unmitigated disaster” and demands a “proper post-mortem”

    Labour’s Chukka Umunna said that “after eight years of Tory government and the resignations of several senior ministers... Labour to be making far greater gains”

    Jeremy Corbyn is facing a Labour backlash over his party’s “unmitigated disaster” at the polls, which prompted Theresa May to taunt his failure to make an electoral breakthrough. As the dust settled Labor’s Chukka Umunna called for his party’s ruling National Executive to set up a “proper post-mortem,” warning the results could not give it confidence it would win the next General Election.

  • Saturday, May 5th 2018 - 08:26 UTC

    England local elections: May relieved, Corbyn questioned and Lib-Dem surging

    Theresa May visited Wandsworth hailing as a success the fact that Labour had failed to capture a borough that has been under Conservative control for 40 years.

    Britain’s two main parties emerged from May 3 local elections in England in a draw, with Labor making gains but failing to capture target councils from the Conservatives. Ukip (Independent party) was almost wiped out, losing all but three of its 126 seats, but the Liberal Democrats had a good night, gaining 75 seats and winning control of four more councils.

  • Thursday, May 3rd 2018 - 08:33 UTC

    Customs union controversy remains at the heart of the UK cabinet

    Downing Street said the meeting acknowledged there were “challenges” to the existing proposals but that both the options put forward are still on the table

    Theresa May has asked officials to draw up “revised proposals” for post-Brexit customs arrangements after a key meeting with her most senior ministers. The Brexit sub committee met on Wednesday to try to agree on a new model to replace the UK's membership of the customs union.

  • Thursday, May 3rd 2018 - 08:13 UTC

    Euro zone economy grows faster than the UK in the first quarter

    Euro zone expanded 0.4% which is far better than the UK economy, which only grew by 0.1% in the same quarter.

    The European Union economy slowed in the first quarter of the year, official Eurostat figures have showed. Economic growth in the Euro zone slowed to 0.4% for the period from January to March 2018, compared with 0.7% in the previous quarter. Growth in the 19-country single currency bloc reached 2.5% year-on-year.

  • Wednesday, May 2nd 2018 - 08:36 UTC

    No peace for PM May: Brexiteer MPs deliver an ultimatum on customs union

    Allegedly chancellor Philip Hammond favors a customs partnership whereby UK n collects the EU's tariffs on goods coming from other countries on the EU's behalf

    Senior Brexiteer MPs have delivered an “ultimatum” demanding Prime Minister Theresa May drops one of the government's preferred post-Brexit customs options. A 30-page document passed to the BBC says a “customs partnership” would make meaningful trade deals “impossible” and render the International Trade Department “obsolete”.

  • Wednesday, May 2nd 2018 - 08:25 UTC

    UK agrees on new measures to increase transparency in offshore havens

    Campaigners say public registers make it easier to uncover corruption, money laundering and tax dodging. The move was backed by both Labour and Tory MPs.

    The British government has agreed to calls for new measures aimed at increasing transparency in offshore tax havens. Facing a possible Commons defeat, ministers said they would not oppose an amendment to force British overseas territories to publish details of the true owners of companies based there.