Starmer is set to make a high-profile international debut next week, when he is expected to attend Nato’s 75th-anniversary summit in Washington. (Photo: Reuters) 5 min read Last Updated : Jul 06 2024 | 11:40 AM IST New British Prime Minister Keir Starmer doesn’t get to take a breather. After a draining six-week election...
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Europe’s ten friendliest destinations detailed – one country in the UK is no.4
Europe’s 10 friendliest destinations have been revealed and one country in the UK which is known for diverse landscapes and rich cultural heritage has made it to the fourth spot. Scotland in the UK has made it to the list of the friendliest countries with neighbouring Ireland taking the top position. The list has been...
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Kyrgios’ Djoker-powered step towards comeback; Murray’s Bond moment: Wimbledon Talking Pts
The second day at Wimbledon opened with the sad news Andy Murray would not be able to play his singles, which prompted emotional reactions around the ground but also evoked memories of one of the great press conferences in recent history in tennis. Did someone say the name Bond? James Bond? Not Nick Kyrgios, who...
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Ukraine to be told it is too corrupt to join Nato
Joe Biden raised “significant corruption” in an interview with Time magazine this year, during which he ruled out supporting the “Nato-isation of Ukraine”. Nato diplomats and officials have given Ukraine a list of reforms it will be expected to carry out before its membership ambitions can be realised, a US defence official said. “That’s something...
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Tory Remainers are the authors of their party’s defeat
The oddity of European politics is that Britain is moving sharply to the Left while most of the Continent is moving even further to the Right. In Britain, young people and even the middle aged are abandoning Conservatism. Elsewhere in Europe, the young are the pillars of a radical Right-wing upsurge. On the Continent, the...
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Labour Expects Billions of Private Investment After UK Election
Keir Starmer is teeing up plans for billions of pounds worth of new private investment in Britain in the first few months of a Labour government — a surge that the opposition party hopes is large enough to help meet its ambitious growth goals and avoid sweeping tax hikes if it wins next week’s election....
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UK holidays in chaos as travel operator cancels all July bookings
A major travel company has announced that all bookings will be cancelled up to and including 26 July. It said it had taken the ‘difficult’ decision to extend cancellations beyond 5 July while talks to secure its future continue. Youtravel is owned by German company FTI Group, whose tour operator brand FTI Touristik filed for...
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Revealed: Britain’s best village shops of 2024
The village shop sells everything you could ever need, Robbie says, and a large amount of it is sourced from local suppliers. There’s bread, cakes, brownies and Portuguese tarts from three different village bakeries, beers brewed within three miles of the outlet and fish caught fresh on the Suffolk coast. Then there’s a “second-hand bookshop,...
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Brit tourists warned as savage European heatwave to skyrocket ‘to 50C’
British tourists with holidays booked to Europe this summer should be wary of soaring temperatures which “could rise to 50C”, a meteorologist has claimed. Large swathes of the continent have been engulfed in a mercury surpassing 40C, which has resulted in the deaths of some tourists in Greece, including TV doctor Michael Mosley. International weather...
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How the ‘least cultured’ place in Britain reinvented itself
It seemed proper to start with the creative backstory, so I begin at the Silk Museum. In the 16th century, Macclesfield was renowned for making buttons. When it became fashionable to cover them in silk, ever-innovative Macc thrust itself into that industry, too. The first silk mill was established in 1743; at its peak, the...
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The beautiful lake named ‘best in Europe’ that belongs to two different nations
Lake Lugano is one of Europe‘s most charming holiday destinations for tourists this summer. This stunning body of water stretches across two countries, Switzerland and Italy, seemingly blending in the best aspects of both nations. Located in the south of the Alps, between the Swiss Ticino canton and the Italian Lombardy region, Lugano isn’t just...
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Watch: Meloni gives Macron a withering look after they clash over abortion
The centrist and pro-EU Mr Macron was humiliated by the Eurosceptic National Rally, led by Marine Le Pen in Sunday’s European Parliament elections. He then called the snap parliamentary election in France in a bid to stop the French flirting with the hard-Right but risks losing control of the National Assembly and becoming a lame-duck...