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UK houses 32,000 asylum seekers in hotels, data shows, as critics decry policy

Starmer's government is facing increasing pressure over housing asylum seekers in hotels after a council won a temporary court injunction earlier this week International News...

UK supermarket Waitrose says boss James Bailey to step down

Bailey has held the managing director role at the upmarket grocer International News via Reuters: British supermarket group Waitrose said on Thursday its boss James Bailey...

Sterling firms against dollar after strong business activity data

The services data trails a hot inflation print from Wednesday, which had spurred only fleeting gains for sterling International News via Reuters: Sterling gained against the...

London stocks retreat; investors await Jackson Hole symposium

The three-day gathering of central bankers is set to begin later in the day, with investors particularly focused on Fed Chair Jerome Powell's Friday...

UK faces more protests and legal action after asylum seekers hotel injunction

On Tuesday, the High Court in London granted a temporary injunction to stop asylum seekers from being housed in the Bell Hotel in Epping International...

Airbus UK workers to strike for 10 days over pay

Unite, which represents more than 3,000 aircraft fitters and engineers at Airbus, said 90% of members voting in a ballot had chosen industrial action International...

UK targets Russian crypto networks and Kyrgyz firms in new sanctions

The sanctions against eight individuals and entities also target the infrastructure behind A7A5, a rouble-pegged stablecoin launched in Kyrgyzstan International News via Reuters: Britain on Wednesday...

Member of Irish rap group Kneecap appears at UK court on terrorism charge

Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh whose stage name is Mo Chara, is alleged to have waved the flag of the banned militant group Hezbollah during...

UK house prices rise 3.7% year-on-year in June

House price inflation reached its highest in more than two years at 5.5% in March International News via Reuters: British house prices in June were 3.7%...

UK council wins bid to move asylum seekers from hotel amid anti-immigration protests

Judge Stephen Eyre granted the council an interim injunction against the owner of the hotel, ruling that asylum seekers should be removed by September...

Switzerland considers joining UK’s ‘dirty money’ task force

Switzerland's foreign ministry said the country currently has observer status of the IACCC and had been invited by Britain to become a full member International...

BoE to cut interest rates just once more this year, held back by resilient inflation, growth: Reuters poll

An unexpected surge in inflation to 3.6% in June prompted the BoE to lift its forecast for it to peak at 4.0% this quarter International...
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