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  • Rishi Sunak will meet Sinn Fein’s Michelle O’Neill and DUP leader Emma Little-Pengelly at Stormont on Monday, his Downing Street office said
  • O’Neill predicts Northern Ireland will hold vote on unification with Ireland; UK PM said country has ‘brighter future’ with power sharing return

Sadiq Khan said Britain’s departure from the EU reduced the size of its economy by 6 per cent, basing his statement on a report he commissioned from consultants Cambridge Econometrics.

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Reform UK – formerly Brexit Party and whose leader admires Donald Trump – rails against immigration, net zero energy policies, ‘nanny state’ regulations.

International students can no longer get visas for their dependants unless they are on a postgraduate research programme or a government-sponsored course.

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Close to 400 pubs in England and Wales closed in 2022, continuing a trend that has seen about 15,000 establishment shut their doors across the UK over the last two decades.

The inquiry is examining the UK’s pandemic response and has heard testimony about often chaotic scenes in the government of then-PM Boris Johnson, marked by incompetence, back-stabbing and misogyny.

Finance minister Jeremy Hunt announced a huge package of 110 measures aimed at reinvigorating the ailing economy and boosting business investment.

Former footballer Gary Neville is marketing to Hongkongers, flats in a 41-storey tower in Manchester that will be the first branded residences and five-star hotel in the city located in northwest England.

Representatives of AI companies and political leaders will meet at Bletchley Park in England next week. Sunak said China had been invited to the summit but attendance was not guaranteed.

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The potential staff cuts, reported by the Sunday Times, are said to part of plans to replace its coal-powered blast furnaces with electric arc furnace technology producing “greener” steel.

The opposition Labour Party overturned huge Conservative majorities to win the parliamentary seats, boosting leader Keir Starmer’s hopes of becoming prime minister in a UK vote expected next year.

The protester shouted “true democracy is citizen-led” and “politics needs an update” before scattering glitter over Keir Starmer’s head.

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He also wants to preserve parts of its history, such as what he says was the UK’s deepest bar, frequented by engineers and clerks who worked underground.

The HS2 railway was intended to slash journey times and increase capacity between London, the central England city of Birmingham and the northern cities of Manchester and Leeds.

An imminent decline in global interest rates should boost housing markets, but any improvement in Hong Kong could be delayed until there is a broader recovery in the local and wider Chinese economies, Knight Frank’s Liam Bailey says.

Chris Pincher will leave the House of Commons more than a year after he was suspended from the ruling Conservative Party. PM Rishi Sunak’s party lost 2 of 3 parliamentary seats contested in July, and are trailing in opinion polls with a national election expected next year.

Local government bodies have warned that more councils across the UK could declare themselves in financial dire straits, after the country’s second biggest city said it could not balance its books.

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak rejected claims that he cut a school refurbishment programme, despite knowing about the risks of crumbly concrete used in their construction.

Airlines will have to fork out millions to passengers, while ‘the air traffic control system which was at the heart of the failure doesn’t pay ’, transport chief said.

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Britain has for decades been grappling with an undersupply of homes, and a government statement said the rule change would enable more than 100,000 homes to be built by 2030. The move has angered green campaigners.

Q Investment Partners, GIC among those investing in the sector as burgeoning university populations perpetuate a student-housing shortage, promising low-risk returns for the foreseeable future.