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UK Budget 2024: All the highlights
LONDON — Jeremy Hunt rolled the pre-election dice Wednesday.The U.K. chancellor delivered a budget full of measures aimed at boosting Britain's sluggish growth and reversing his party's electoral fortunes. In doing so, he parked a fair few tanks on the op...
6 months ago
UK inflation stays at 2 percent target in June
Britain's key inflation gauge was unchanged in June from a month earlier, but came in slightly above expectations. The consumer price index, or CPI, rose 2.0 percent from a year ago, the Office for National Statistics said today, in line with the Bank of...
2 months ago
Labour’s top policy priorities
LONDON — Keir Starmer has arrived in Downing Street with his new Cabinet. So what are their first priorities?Big-ticket items include decarbonizing the electricity grid by 2030, building 1.5 million homes over five years, hitting long-missed health servic...
2 months ago
Saudi oil giant spends well over a billion on ‘sportswashing,’ new report says
Saudi Arabia is spending more than a billion dollars to sponsor global sporting events as it looks to burnish its reputation and assert itself as a global superpower, according to a new report out Wednesday.The report by think tank New Weather Institute r...
4 weeks ago