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Labour takes governing seats as UK parliament returns
A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer addressing MPs as they meet for the first time since Britain's general election at the House of Commons in London on July 9, 2024
Greece needs a strategic state to deliver for its citizens
Throughout history, science and technology have been the greatest sources of progress and growth. But when it comes to how government can harness the opportunities of technology and turn vision into delivery, the task becomes more difficult.
Greece needs a strategic state to deliver for its citizens and thrive in the 21st century
Throughout history, science and technology have been the greatest sources of progress and growth. But when it comes to how government can harness the opportunities of technology and turn vision into delivery, the task becomes more difficult.
Transparency Concerns over Tony and Cherie Blair’s Balkan Endeavours
Cherie Blair's law firm has made hundreds of thousands of euros representing governments in Albania and Serbia, which have also been advised by Tony Blair's consultancy.
Changing Britain: Can Sunak Arrest the Decline?
Rishi Sunak has just been chosen, 2.00 p.m. on 24th October 2022 by a fair margin, the next Prime Minister, the first ethnic Asian Briton to be so elected, and we wish him well. His appointment comes after a considerable period of turmoil which has raised many eyebrows around the world. Britain is supposed to be the home of parliamentary democracy.
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New Democracy expels MP Andreas Patsis over ‘red loans’ allegations
The MP was called in by the party secretary to explain his view on the matter
UK PM Truss vows to stay, but on the brink as minister quits
British Prime Minister Liz Truss described herself as "a fighter and not a quitter" Wednesday as she faced a hostile opposition and fury from her own Conservative Party over her botched economic plan. Within hours of the defiant statement, her government was teetering on the verge of collapse.
UK by-elections pose fresh threat to Boris Johnson
Voters head to the polls on Thursday in two closely watched UK by-elections that risk renewing pressure on beleaguered Prime Minister Boris Johnson following months of scandals and setbacks.
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Angela Rayner hits back at claims she enjoys ‘sexist slurs’
British politician Angela Rayner has hit out at claims that she viewed "sexist slurs" made against her as a joke, amid a row between the Commons Speaker and the Mail on Sunday, whose editor rebuffed an invitation to discuss an article about the deputy Labor leader.
UK’s Johnson faces test as MPs mull ’partygate’ probe
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faces a test of Conservative party loyalty Thursday when MPs vote on whether he should be investigated for misleading them over the "partygate" scandal.
Johnson repeatedly denied in the House of Commons that he or his Downing Street staff had breached Covid-19 lockdown laws, after allegations of widespread rule-breaking emerged late last year.