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International
7/5/2024 1:48:00 PM
Rishi Sunak on Friday apologised to the public after his Conservatives were trounced by Labour in the UK general election, and said he would step down as party leader.
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World
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International
6/27/2024 10:43:28 AM
Britain goes to the polls next week in a general election that looks set to end 14 years of Conservative rule marked by economic turbulence, Brexit, political scandal and upheaval.
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World
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International
6/14/2024 2:18:06 PM
The Conservative party of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has fallen behind the hard-right anti-immigration Reform UK party for the first time in a poll by YouGov, which called the development a "seismic shift".
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
4/2/2024 7:34:31 PM
Tory infighting has bolstered the extreme far right, which might cost the Conservative Party a humiliating defeat this year.
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Africa
12/12/2023 10:08:31 PM
UK lawmakers on Tuesday voted in favour of the government's latest plans to send migrants to Rwanda, which has split Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's ruling Conservative party.
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Business
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Economy
10/3/2023 2:37:02 PM
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Tuesday dodged questions over the future of the UK's second high-speed train line, as the issue overshadowed his Conservative party's annual conference.
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World
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Region
8/13/2023 11:02:24 AM
Poland’s ruling party wants to ask voters in a referendum whether they support accepting “thousands of illegal immigrants from the Middle East and Africa” as part of a European Union relocation plan, the prime minister said Sunday, as his conservative party seeks to stave off a challenge from the political opposition.
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World
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International
7/20/2023 4:48:13 PM
Voters went to the polls Thursday in three electoral districts of England, with the governing Conservative Party braced for a drubbing over a cost-of-living crisis and a morale-sapping string of political scandals.
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World
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International
6/25/2023 10:08:55 PM
Greek ex-prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who clinched a landslide victory in Sunday's general election, is credited with returning his debt-ridden country to a path of growth.
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World
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International
6/11/2023 1:26:19 PM
UK opposition leader Keir Starmer on Sunday demanded a general election as three MPs from the ruling Conservative Party, including Boris Johnson, quit parliament following a probe into Covid lockdown-breaking parties.
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World
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International
5/21/2023 10:05:38 PM
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' conservative party is on course to win Sunday's election, exit polls show, but could be forced to call a new ballot in a month's time as it fell short of an outright majority to rule alone.
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World
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International
1/29/2023 8:45:06 PM
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak fired the chairman of the governing Conservative Party on Sunday for a "serious breach'' of ethics rules in failing to come clean about a tax dispute.
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Business
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Economy
1/27/2023 2:14:05 PM
Britain's Treasury chief said Friday that taming inflation is more important than cutting taxes, resisting calls from some in the governing Conservative Party for immediate tax breaks for businesses and voters.
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Business
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Economy
12/14/2022 10:33:49 PM
The UK’s Conservative Party has appointed billionaire Mohamed Mansour, former transport minister under Egypt’s late longtime President Hosni Mubarak, as senior treasurer to the party, The Guardian reported on Wednesday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
10/26/2022 12:19:00 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi congratulated on Tuesday Rishi Sunak on winning the UK Conservative Party’s elections and becoming the prime minister of Britain, the Egyptian presidency announced.
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World
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International
10/24/2022 7:46:41 PM
Surging inflation, ongoing strikes, health crises and war in Europe: the UK's incoming prime minister Rishi Sunak faces major challenges -- as well as bitter rifts in the Conservative party.
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World
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International
10/23/2022 10:48:34 PM
Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he will not run to lead the Conservative Party, ending intense speculation about a comeback.
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World
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International
10/23/2022 5:50:26 PM
Former British Treasury chief Rishi Sunak was the frontrunner Sunday in the Conservative Party's race to replace Liz Truss as prime minister. Sunak garnered the public support of over 100 Tory lawmakers to forge ahead of his two main rivals: former Prime Minister Boris Johnson and ex-Cabinet minister Penny Mordaunt.
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World
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International
10/20/2022 2:50:45 PM
The opposition Labour Party leader, Keir Starmer, called for an immediate general election shortly after the Tory leader announced her resignation on Thursday afternoon - less than six weeks in office amid an unforlding economic crisis.
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World
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International
10/20/2022 9:55:27 AM
U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss was hanging on to power by a thread on Thursday after a senior minister quit her government with a barrage of criticism and a vote in the House of Commons descended into chaos and acrimony.
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