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09.11 / 12:19

Investment trusts Downing MICRO Downing Strategic Micro-Cap to begin managed portfolio wind-down

The trust posted an 8.2% drop in net asset value per share and an 8.3% fall in its share price in the six months to 31 August 2023.

09.11 / 05:17

Remark President Celebrity show reports Downing UK PM Rishi Sunak, wife Akshata Murty host Diwali event at Downing Street | See Images

Diwali celebration. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), the UK Prime Minister's office wrote, “Tonight Prime Minister @RishiSunak welcomed guests from the Hindu community to Downing Street ahead of #Diwali - a celebration of the triumph of light over darkness." The visuals showed that Downing Street was enlightened by diyas and colorful lights. A large number of people had joined the celebration.

01.11 / 23:03

Energy Halloween Downing Just Stop Oil: Environmental activists try to break into Downing Street in grand finale

Environmental group Just Stop Oil topped off a month of controversial protests in London on Tuesday, rallying outside Downing Street to demand that the prime minister bans new exploration for fossil fuels.

06.07 / 16:07

Downing NOT Boris Johnson refuses to step down as resignations rock Downing Street: ‘The question now is not if but when he quits’

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was working to cling to power amid a growing mutiny in his party and the resignation of two of his most senior ministers.

12.04 / 16:05

News Downing UK PM Boris Johnson fined over Downing Street lockdown parties

UK prime minister Boris Johnson has been fined over Downing Street lockdown parties.

29.03 / 11:45

Art News Downing Police recommend 20 fines over COVID rule breaches in Downing Street

Police have recommended 20 fines be issued over breaches of COVID regulations at the heart of the UK government.

31.01 / 17:59

Downing Sue Gray report: ‘Failures of leadership’ called into question as boozy Downing Street culture slammed

Sue Gray, the civil servant charged with investigating potential lockdown breaches during Downing Street parties, has slammed the failures of leadership that led to behaviour that was "difficult to justify".

28.01 / 00:33

abortion rights NATO Downing Boris Johnson: Pressure mounts on PM to publish delayed Downing Street parties report

Boris Johnson has pledged to publish in full an official report into the various parties and other gatherings his Downing Street team, and sometimes the prime minister himself, attended in alleged breach of lockdown rules.

19.01 / 15:15

Sky News MPs Downing Watch live: Boris Johnson to face British MPs amid Downing Street parties scandal

A Conservative MP has defected to the Labour party just as Boris Johnson is set to once again face British MPs in parliament to respond to questions about "partygate", a scandal that has threatened the prime minister's leadership.

19.01 / 09:43

Sky News Downing 'Nobody told me' Downing Street party broke COVID rules, Johnson says

Embattled British Prime Minister Boris Johnson tried to defend himself from accusations of lying on Tuesday, affirming that nobody told him a party held at his official residence in May 2020 was against COVID rules.

14.01 / 09:33

Downing Boris Johnson battles for political survival amid more claims of Downing Street parties

There is renewed pressure on Britain's beleaguered Prime Minister Boris Johnson amid more claims that his Downing Street staff held parties while the country was in lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic.

12.01 / 16:01

MPs Downing Boris Johnson apologises for Downing Street party during grilling by MPs

Boris Johnson has apologised over a party held at Downing Street during the first coronavirus lockdown, as he faced MPs at Prime Minister's Questions.

22.12 / 18:19

Downing MH17: Life sentences demanded for quartet accused of downing passenger jet over eastern Ukraine

Dutch prosecutors on Wednesday demanded life sentences for four suspects in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014, saying they caused “deep and irreversible suffering” to relatives of the 298 people killed.

26.11 / 03:21

UPS MET Downing Heavyweight investors head to Downing Street as science and technology funds shoot up agenda

Some of the UK's biggest investors have met with the prime minister and chancellor to discuss how to encourage hundreds of millions of pounds' worth of investment into some of Britain's most innovative companies.

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