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FILE PHOTO: Secretary of State for Transport, Chris Grayling, arrives in Downing Street, London, Britain, December 4, 2018. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls LONDON (Reuters) – Transport minister Chris Grayling will sign an agreement with Switzerland on Monday to ensure air services continue to operate between the two countries after Brexit. Britain is due to leave the European
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FILE PHOTO – Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon speaks at the Royal Society of Arts in London, Britain October 15, 2018. Stefan Rousseau/Pool via REUTERS BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Sunday she thought that a confidence motion against the government could succeed in parliament, piling pressure on the main opposition
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s government is not preparing for a second referendum on Brexit, ministers said on Sunday, sticking to the script that Prime Minister Theresa May’s deal could still pass through parliament with a few changes. Demonstrators waving flags stand outside the Houses of Parliament, in central London, Britain December 12, 2018. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s exit from the European Union was heading for an impasse, one senior minister said on Saturday, after a week in which Prime Minister Theresa May failed to win EU assurances on her deal and pulled a vote because UK lawmakers would defeat it. FILE PHOTO – British Prime Minister Theresa May
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Emergency services are seen at Chester Zoo, Britain December 15, 2018 in this still image taken from a video obtained from social media. TWITTER/ @FAKTORYSTUDIOS1/via REUTERS LONDON (Reuters) – A zoo in northern England said its animals were safe after a fire broke out on Saturday in its Monsoon Forest section, the largest indoor zoological
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Britain’s Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt arrives in Downing Street, London, Britain, December 4, 2018. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls LONDON (Reuters) – Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Saturday that the British parliament could back Prime Minister Theresa May’s deal if lawmakers received assurances from the European Union, but warned that a no deal Brexit
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British Prime Minister Theresa May leaves after a news conference following a European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium December 14, 2018. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir LONDON (Reuters) – Most of British Prime Minister Theresa May’s senior ministers think her Brexit plan is dead and are discussing different options including a second referendum, The Times newspaper reported.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Friday further assurances on her Brexit deal were possible after European Union leaders told her they would not be renegotiating the treaty and scorned her stilted defence of Britain’s departure. With the British parliament deadlocked, the ultimate destination of the Brexit project remains unclear, with
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May remonstrated with Jean-Claude Juncker at a Brussels summit on Friday, and the EU chief executive had to placate her after publicly calling Britain’s Brexit demands “nebulous”. FILE PHOTO – British Prime Minister Theresa May and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker take part in a European Union leaders
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a news conference after a European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium December 14, 2018. REUTERS/Piroschka Van De Wouw BRUSSELS (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel briefly stunned reporters in Brussels on Friday when she appeared to say that she would work against Britain remaining in the European Union after
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British Prime Minister Theresa May and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker take part in a European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium December 13, 2018. REUTERS/Yves Herman BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said he had highest respect for Prime Minister Theresa May and his use of the word “nebulous” had referred to
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Ireland’s Prime Minister (Taoiseach) and Defence Minister Leo Varadkar attends a news conference after a European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium December 14, 2018. REUTERS/Piroschka Van De Wouw BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said on Friday he wanted to help Prime Minister Theresa May as much as possible but that EU
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LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May’s attempt to win assurances from the European Union on her Brexit deal was cast by opponents on Friday as a humiliating failure that did nothing to ease the parliamentary deadlock over Britain’s departure from the bloc. British Prime Minister Theresa May arrives at a European Union leaders
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FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Minister for the Cabinet Office David Lidington delivers a speech during the MEDEF union summer forum on the campus of the HEC School of Management in Jouy-en-Josas, near Paris, France, August 29, 2018. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File Photo LONDON (Reuters) – The EU council meeting was a welcome first step as British Prime Minister
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union leaders assured Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday that the Brexit treaty she agreed last month but is struggling to get through UK parliament should not bind Britain forever to EU rules. The leaders, meeting over dinner in Brussels, were responding to a plea from May, 24 hours after she
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Britain’s weakened prime minister, Theresa May, appealed to fellow EU leaders on Thursday for concessions to help her win support in parliament next month for a deal that can smooth Britain’s exit from the European Union. Arriving at a Brussels summit a day after a failed attempt to topple her at home,
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Britain’s weakened prime minister, Theresa May, said on Thursday she did not expect to secure an immediate breakthrough in Brexit talks that would provide her fractured party with the kind of reassurances needed to get her deal through parliament. The European Union’s response as she arrived in Brussels for two days of
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LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Britain’s weakened Prime Minister Theresa May headed for Brussels on Thursday to lobby European leaders for help after she survived a parliamentary mutiny that highlighted the deadlock over Brexit. Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street in Westminster London, Britain, December 13, 2018. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls May won the backing of
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LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May survived a vote of confidence in her leadership on Wednesday but more than a third of lawmakers voted against her, underscoring the challenge she faces in getting her Brexit divorce deal through parliament. Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May speaks outside 10 Downing Street after a confidence vote by
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(Reuters) – Sport England has announced a 3 million pounds investment to create 200 new parkrun events in the country over the next three years to increase participation among women and people from lower socioeconomic groups. FILE PHOTO: Participants take part in a parkrun event at Bushy Park in London August 2, 2014. REUTERS/Neil Hall/File
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LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May vowed to fight for her job in a leadership challenge on Wednesday triggered by Conservative lawmakers, saying a change could jeopardise Britain’s divorce from the European Union. Less than four months before the United Kingdom is due to leave on March 29, Brexit is in chaos with options
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DUP leader Arlene Foster, Conservative MP Shailesh Vara and David Davis, former Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, attend the launch of A Better Deal in London, Britain, December 12, 2018. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls LONDON (Reuters) – The leader of the Northern Irish party propping up Britain’s government on Wednesday joined forces with the
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