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UK PM 'sorry' for economic 'mistakes' but embattled Liz Truss vows to stay
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
London [UK], October 18 (ANI): UK Prime Minister Liz Truss on Monday (local time) apologised for going "too far too fast" with reforms that caused investor confidence to evaporate and her poll ratings to plunge, however, she vowed to stay on and lead Tories into next election.
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UK PM Liz Truss appoints Jeremy Hunt as new Finance Minister
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
London [UK], October 14 (ANI): Jeremy Hunt has been appointed as Chancellor of the Exchequer of the British government on Friday after Prime Minister Liz Truss sacked Kwasi Kwarteng after the economic turmoil unleashed by his mini-budget.
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UK: British PM Liz Truss fires finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
London [UK], October 14 (ANI): United Kingdom's Finance Minister Kwasi Kwarteng has been fired after serving for even less than six weeks, as the new government's September 23 plan of massive tax cuts resulted in the plunging of British government bonds.
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Liz Truss's conservative government takes U-turns on plan to scrap 45p tax
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
London [UK], October 3 (ANI): Days after UK Prime Minister Liz Truss insisted she would not abandon the tax cut for the wealthiest, the conservative government on Monday took a U-turn on the plan to scrap a 45 per cent tax cut.
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New UK PM Liz Truss vows to tackle energy crisis in first speech
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
London [UK], September 7 (ANI): In her first speech as the UK's new Prime Minister, Liz Truss immediately confronted the enormous task ahead of her amid increasing pressure to curb soaring prices, ease labour unrest and fix a health care system burdened by long waiting lists and staff shorta
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UK refuses to stop oil, gas production despite climate protests: Energy Se
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
London [UK], April 14 (ANI/Sputnik): The United Kingdom will not stop oil and gas production in the country despite ongoing large-scale protests by environmental activists, UK Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Kwasi Kwarteng said on Wednesday.
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Ukraine conflict: UK to stop Russian oil imports by end of 2022
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
London [UK], March 9 (ANI): The UK will phase out imports of Russian oil in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine by the end of the year, the UK Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng confirmed on Tuesday.
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India-UK set in motion concrete action plans for clean energy transition i
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 9 (ANI): India and UK have set in motion concrete action plans for driving clean energy transition in the power sector.
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UK, India agree ambitious collaboration on clean energy
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] October 8 (ANI): Union Minister for Power and New and Renewable Energy Raj Kumar Singh on Friday met UK Business and Energy Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng to discuss strengthening collaboration on accelerating the move to global clean energy in the run-up to the UN Climate Change
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Successful launch marks key milestone for OneWeb's Five to 50 Ambition
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
London [UK], March 26 (ANI/BusinessWire India): OneWeb, the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communications company, has confirmed the successful launch of all 36 satellites by Arianespace from the Vostochny Cosmodrome.
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