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...The government will not be able to avoid going before MPs if it is to make further cuts this year or raise taxes....
...The Times reported on Wednesday that Menzies allegedly made a 3.15am call to a 78-year-old party volunteer last December demanding £5,000 of party funds to secure his release after claiming he had been locked...
...Benton won his constituency of Blackpool South, a key Labour target seat, by a narrow majority of 3,690 votes in 2019. It will be the 23rd by-election since the last general election in 2019....
...Benton won his constituency of Blackpool South, a key Labour target seat, by a narrow majority of 3,690 votes in the 2019 general election....
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...Non-store retailing, which includes online, contracted 1.5 per cent in March, while sales in department stores were down 3.8 per cent....
...Von Preen said that as many department stores as well as independent sports retailers had closed in recent years there was now “a vacuum” in physical store sports retailing....
...Lynas shares rose 3 per cent in Wednesday trading. Lynas and MP Materials held talks over a potential merger but pulled out of negotiations in February....
...Of the £3.7bn that had been allocated, only £1.24bn — or 10 per cent — had actually been spent....
...Wilko was one of the biggest retail casualties in the UK since the collapse of Sir Philip Green’s retail empire and department store chain Debenhams....
...Separately, the Conservatives are defending a 3,690 majority in a parliamentary by-election in Blackpool South, a seat vacated by Tory MP Scott Benton after a lobbying scandal....
...Meanwhile, 62.7 per cent of callers waited more than 10 minutes to speak to an adviser, up from 46.3 per cent in 2021–22....
...The zero growth was lower than the 0.3 per cent expansion forecast by economists polled by Reuters....
...On Tuesday last week the Commons adjourned at 3.53pm, while on one Monday earlier this month almost five hours were dedicated to an unfocused “general debate on farming”, critics pointed out....
...Grant Shapps, defence secretary, has been on his own manoeuvres, publicly lobbying for UK military spending to rise to 3 per cent of gross domestic product....
...UK defence spending is currently just under 2.3 per cent of GDP once military aid to Ukraine is included and the government has said it will only increase to 2.5 per cent “if fiscal and economic circumstances...
...Wages in Japan rose 3.8 per cent last year, the largest increase in three decades....
...On average Labour is polling 43.8 per cent at present, while the Conservatives are on 25.3 per cent, according to the FT’s poll of polls....
...The committee asked Wilkinson, who is the granddaughter of the company’s founder, why nearly £150mn was taken out of the business over the last 20 years, including £3.75mn in the year before the retailer...
...Italy aims to process 36,000 people a year through the centres, which will be able to house a total of 3,000 people....
...A group of cross-party MPs has cast doubt on the UK government’s ability to fulfil its pledge to build 40 new hospitals by 2030....
...So it was with a mixture of reassurance and concern that I read last week of the $3.3bn tender offer by the telecoms group KDDI for joint control of Lawson’s 14,600 stores in Japan....
...Mixue opened its first international store in Hanoi in 2018 and now has more than 3,000 stores outside of China....
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