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Threshold for triggering challenge to UK PM May has not yet been met – lawmaker

Editorial Bureau November 18, 2018

LONDON (Reuters) – The threshold for triggering a confidence vote in British Prime Minister Theresa May has not yet been met, the chairman of the committee in charge of Conservative Party leadership contests told BBC radio on Sunday. “The intention is clear that if it were to happen

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PM May – Getting rid of me risks delaying Brexit

Editorial Bureau November 18, 2018

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Sunday toppling her would risk delaying Brexit and she would not let talk of a leadership challenge distract her from a critical week of negotiations. Since unveiling a draft divorce deal with the European Union on Wednesday, May’s premiership has been thrust into crisis by […]

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Advocates of new Brexit deal ‘not living in real world’ – Irish minister

Editorial Bureau November 18, 2018

DUBLIN (Reuters) – Pro-Brexit British ministers are “not living in the real world” if they think they can renegotiate the divorce treaty agreed with the EU last week, Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said on Saturday. British Prime Minister Theresa May is fighting to save the draft withdrawal deal ahead of a vote in parliament […]

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London bridges blocked by environment protest, 70 arrested

Editorial Bureau November 18, 2018

LONDON (Reuters) – British police said they arrested more than 70 people at an environmental protest on Saturday, after demonstrators blocked five bridges across the River Thames in central London. Organisers of the ‘Extinction Rebellion’ event said they wanted to put pressure on Britain’s government to take greater action to slow climate change and

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May sees ‘no alternative’ to her Brexit plan

Editorial Bureau November 18, 2018

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May says she sees no alternative to the Brexit deal she presented earlier this week, amid reports that some of her senior ministers want her to renegotiate the draft agreement before meeting EU leaders next weekend. “There is no alternative plan on the table. There is no different […]

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May’s Brexit deal sparks defiance and divisions in unionist Belfast

Editorial Bureau November 17, 2018

BELFAST (Reuters) – At Sandy Row Band Supplies in the heart of Belfast’s pro-British unionist community, it is easy to understand the uncompromising resistance of Prime Minister Theresa May’s Northern Irish allies to her Brexit deal. Here locals who express loyalty to London by lining streets with Britain’s Union Jack flags and painting kerbstones

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A vote reversed – What is the path back from Brexit?

Editorial Bureau November 17, 2018

LONDON (Reuters) – To leave, or not to leave: Two and a half years since the United Kingdom voted to exit the EU, that is still the question. The crisis in Prime Minister Theresa May’s government over her draft Brexit divorce deal has stirred interest in the possibility that the United Kingdom could change its […]

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Britain to push U.N. Security Council to back humanitarian truce in Yemen

Editorial Bureau November 17, 2018

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Britain said on Friday it will push the United Nations Security Council to back a humanitarian truce in Yemen as the U.N. Yemen envoy said the warring parties had given “firm assurances” they were committed to attending peace talks shortly in Sweden. British U.N. Ambassador Karen Pierce said she would give […]

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May defends Brexit deal as opponents plot no-confidence vote

Editorial Bureau November 17, 2018

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May won the backing of the most prominent Brexiteer in her government on Friday as she fought to save a draft European Union divorce deal that has stirred up a plot to force her out of her job. More than two years after the United Kingdom voted to leave […]

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Women’s campaigner outraged at lifting ban on British lord in harassment scandal

Editorial Bureau November 16, 2018

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A leading women’s rights campaigner who went public to name a British lord for sexual harassment expressed outrage on Thursday after his ban from the upper house of parliament was overturned, fearing it would stop other victims from coming forward. Jasvinder Sanghera decided to waive her anonymity this week to […]