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The government is to publish the long-delayed results of probes into Abu Dhabi's failed attempt to buy The Daily Telegraph - a move which risks stoking tensions with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) amid a row over Andy Burnham's links to the owners of Manchester City.

Andy Burnham will welcome Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Downing Street today in a show of support days after Donald Trump's controversial diesel deal with Russia.

Britain's biggest bookmakers are stepping up their efforts to avert a budget tax bombshell in a last-ditch letter warning that half of the betting shops in the prime minister's constituency would be at risk from a further raid.

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The UK economy is set to grow faster than expected this year, though households are expected to face higher rates of inflation, according to forecasts from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).