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Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves reaction to Sir Keir Starmer’s keynote conference speech
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves's reaction to Sir Keir Starmer's keynote conference speech at the Labour party conference in Liverpool.
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Starmer vows to stoke the ‘fire of change’ with plan to build a new Britain
Sir Keir Starmer promised to build a new Britain, with modern homes and businesses and an NHS 'back on its feet'.
The Labour leader, who was confronted by a glitter-throwing protester before he could deliver his speech to the party’s...
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Protester interrupts Labour Party Conference in Liverpool
A protester interrupts the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool just before Deputy Leader Angela Rayner's speech.
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Labour Party conference – a look at what to expect as members gather in Liverpool
When Labour members gather for the party's annual conference in Liverpool they will hope Sir Keir Starmer can convince the public he is a prime minister in waiting.
Here are some key things to look out for in what could be Labour's last...
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Gove uses conference speech to attack 'jellyfish' Starmer
Michael Gove used his conference speech as a pre-election rallying cry, with an attack on Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer.
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Tory party member Andrew Boff escorted away for heckling during Braverman speech
Tory party member Andrew Boff was escorted away from the party's conference in Manchester after heckling Home Secretary Suella Braverman during her speech.
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Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch speech at the Conservative Party Conference - full
Kemi Badenoch has hit out at critics of the Government’s decisions on equality as she invoked the words of American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King.
The Business Secretary, who is also the minister for women and equalities,...
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Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer speech at the Conservative Party Conference - full
Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer has said Ministers will publish new guidance to ensure historic statues which have been subject to removal campaigns are kept in place.
Ms Fraser she wanted to “retain and explain” those monuments, as she...
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West faces existential threat if global asylum rules not tightened – Braverman
Millions of asylum seekers are being incentivised to “try their luck” in a system that poses an existential threat to the West if it is not reformed, the Home Secretary has said.
Suella Braverman, giving a speech on migration in the...
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EU Trade Chief Says China Relations 'Very Imbalanced'
The European Union's chief trade negotiator says the bloc is seeking a new strategy toward China, calling the current relationship very unbalanced. Valdis Dombrovskis is wrapping up his trip to Beijing on Tuesday. Charlie Zhu reports on...
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Higgins accuses UN of ‘losing credibility’ amid warning over climate change
The President of Ireland has accused the United Nations of “losing credibility” in a Ploughing Championship speech.
While criticising countries who had not achieved global sustainability goals, he said that the United Nations (UN) was...
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Bacik: I have received threats from the far-right
Labour leader Ivana Bacik addresses the media at her party's think-in in Maynooth.
Ms Bacik set out her party's key aims which will be focused around care, housing and climate.
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Pentagon Pledges Thousands of US Drones to Counter China
The Pentagon plans to field thousands of air, sea, and possibly land-based drones in 2025. It wants to counter China's numeric superiority in these types of weapons systems. Meanwhile, a US lawmaker says China's top...
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Macropolicy Perspectives President on Central Banks, Housing, Labor, Bond Markets
Macropolicy Perspectives President and Founder, Julia Coronado, discusses central banking, the housing market, labor market and bond market. She speaks with Tom Keene, Jonathan Ferro and Lisa Abramowicz, on a special edition of...
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ECB's Lagarde on Global Economic Environment, Inflation
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde says the central bank is dealing with shifts in labor, energy and geopolitics. Speaking with Tom Keene on the sidelines of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's annual economic policy...
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Trump Has Solid Lead Over DeSantis Despite Legal Issues
A new poll shows former President Donald Trump with a solid lead over Florida Governor Ron DeSantis among GOP primary voters, despite his legal troubles. Bloomberg's Laura Davison and Enda Curran report on "Balance of Power."
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Gove 'completely' stands by Tory manifesto commitment to build 300,000 homes a year by the mid 2020s
Housing Secretary Michael Gove has said he “completely” stands by the Tory manifesto commitment to build 300,000 homes a year by the mid 2020s.
Asked after a speech in London’s King’s Cross, he said: “The 300,000 target by the middle...
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Lowe Announces RBA Reforms
Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Philip Lowe announced a slate of reforms at the central bank, some that have been flagged before, but they won't take effect until after he finds out if he's staying in the job or being replaced. Swati...
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Vladimir Putin thanks Russia for ‘unity’ after aborted rebellion
Vladimir Putin has thanked Russia for its “unity” after an armed rebellion over the weekend was aborted less than 24 hours after it began.
The president was speaking after mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin defended his short-lived...
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Hundreds of junior doctors gather in London to demand higher pay
On the second day of strike action organised by the BMA, demonstrators filed past the statues of Winston Churchill and David Lloyd George before gathering on Parliament Square Green in view of Big Ben.
They carried placards reading “NHS...
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China Big Four State Banks Said to Cut Dollar Deposit Rates
China's big four state lenders have effectively cut dollar deposit rates as the yuan weakens against the greenback, according to people familiar with the matter. Charlie Zhu reports on Bloomberg Television.
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Starmer: NHS won't survive five more years of Tory government
Sir Keir Starmer has pledged Labour would make the NHS “fit for the future” with new targets for ambulance response times, cancer diagnosis and cutting deaths from cardiovascular disease.
Delivering a speech on Monday, he echoed Nye...
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Art Smart: Norman Rockwell and the Four Freedoms
Katie tells us how artist Norman Rockwell was inspired by Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union Address and helped win a war.
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Politics daily briefing: May 15
All the latest political developments in the UK as Suella Braverman will argue that there is “no good reason” the UK cannot train its own workforce of lorry drivers and fruit pickers, in a speech that will stress the need for overall...