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Home Office announces cap on non-EU migration
Jun 28, 2010 09:22 EDT
The Home Office unveiled plans to limit the numbers coming to live and work in the country for the first time Monday, cutting visas for skilled non-European Union migrants by five percent.
UK to let in fewer non-EU migrant workers
Jun 28, 2010 03:56 EDT
The Home Office will on Monday announce a temporary limit on the number of non-European Union migrants coming into the country to live and work.
Lib Dems suffer after austerity budget: poll
Jun 27, 2010 01:54 EDT
The Liberal Democrats lost support after they formed a coalition with the Conservatives and agreed to an emergency budget aimed at slashing the public deficit, polls published Sunday found.
Cap on non-EU migrants next month
Jun 26, 2010 05:39 EDT
Britain will begin capping the number of non-European Union migrants coming into the country to live and work for the first time next month, a Home Office source said on Saturday.
Russia and Britain vow to relaunch strained ties
Jun 25, 2010 21:20 EDT
Russia and Britain agreed to work to renew ties strained in recent years by a series of controversies when the leaders of the two countries met in Canada.
PM eyes Afghan troop withdrawal within five years
Jun 25, 2010 13:54 EDT
Prime Minister David Cameron said Friday he wants troops home from Afghanistan within five years, conceding the war-torn country would not be "perfect" before that happened.
Cameron faces diplomatic test at G-20
Jun 24, 2010 19:05 EDT
In diplomatic test, Cameron faces conflicts over BP, Afghanistan, economy at G-20 summit. British Prime Minister David Cameron steps into a potential hornets' nest of trans-Atlantic conflict when he makes his global debut this week at the G-20 summit in Canada ? with tensions over Afghanistan, Europe's debt crisis and the BP oil spill gaining in intensity.
Govt eyes pushing retirement age to 66 faster
Jun 24, 2010 14:10 EDT
The government is to accelerate plans to raise the retirement age for men to 66, possibly by 2016, the government announced Thursday.
Chancellor defends emergency budget
Jun 23, 2010 10:34 EDT
Chancellor George Osborne defended his deficit-slashing emergency budget on Wednesday, arguing that the previous government had left the public finances in a "massive mess".
British finance minister defends emergency budget
Jun 23, 2010 10:31 EDT
Britain's finance minister George Osborne defended his deficit-slashing emergency budget on Wednesday, arguing that the previous government had left the public finances in a "massive mess".
Osborne defends 'tough but fair' budget
Jun 23, 2010 07:51 EDT
Chancellor George Osborne defended his deficit-slashing emergency budget on Wednesday, arguing that the previous government had left the public finances in a "massive mess".
British finance minister defends emergency budget
Jun 23, 2010 07:48 EDT
Britain's finance minister George Osborne defended his deficit-slashing emergency budget on Wednesday, arguing that the previous government had left the public finances in a "massive mess".
Osborne defends 'tough but fair' budget
Jun 23, 2010 06:54 EDT
Chancellor George Osborne defended his deficit-slashing emergency budget on Wednesday, arguing that the previous government had left the public finances in a "massive mess".
Analysis: Gen.'s remarks echo troubled Afghan war
Jun 22, 2010 15:53 EDT
Analysis: Gen.'s remarks echo troubled Afghan war, more bad news for White House. The war in Afghanistan appears in disarray.
UK slashes spending, raises VAT and taxes banks
Jun 22, 2010 13:42 EDT
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's coalition government produced the harshest budget in a generation on Tuesday, slashing spending, raising sales tax and slapping a levy on banks to cut a record deficit to almost nothing in five years.
UK makes sharpest cuts in decades in new budget
Jun 22, 2010 11:39 EDT
Britain's Treasury chief unveiled on Tuesday the toughest cuts to public spending in decades, a raft of tax rises and a new levy on banks in an emergency budget aimed at restoring the country's ravaged public finances.
UK makes sharpest cuts in decades in new budget
Jun 22, 2010 11:38 EDT
Spending cuts, tax hikes in UK emergency budget focused on cutting record national deficit. Britain's Treasury chief unveiled on Tuesday the toughest cuts to public spending in decades, a raft of tax rises and a new levy on banks in an emergency budget aimed at restoring the country's ravaged public finances.
Britain set for austerity budget
Jun 22, 2010 07:29 EDT
British finance minister George Osborne pledged Tuesday to balance the books within five years, a spokesman said, shortly before he was to unveil a hard-hitting austerity budget.
Britain braced for tough budget to slash debt
Jun 22, 2010 06:53 EDT
Britain's Finance minister George Osborne pledged Tuesday to balance the country's books within five years, a spokesman said, shortly before he was to unveil an hard-hitting austerity budget.
PM steps up for debut on world stage
Jun 22, 2010 03:20 EDT
Prime Minister David Cameron makes his international debut this week at G8 and G20 summits in Canada, with the focus on the economy -- but there may also be hints of wider foreign policy shifts.
