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signs have appeared on the doors of pubs across Britain, which read, No Labour MPs.
This is after the centre-left Labour government introduced a new tax on commercial property, which pubs say will cost them thousands of dollars a year, at a time when they are already struggling with the effects of Brexit, the pandemic and rising costs.
more than 1,000 pubs have joined the protest.
And Labour lawmakers, eager to get back to their favourite watering holes, have taken note.
The government is expected to announce concessions for pubs in the coming days.
Fatima Al-Kassab, NPR News, London.
Trump's comments suggesting NATO troops avoided the front line in the war in Afghanistan have been condemned by politicians across the spectrum in the UK.
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer has called on Trump to apologise.
One veteran, Ben McBean, wrote on social media, As I sit here with two limbs missing, friends gone, it's infuriating to hear this come out of Donald Trump's mouth.
Soon after the 9-11 terror attacks, the UK joined the US in its invasion of Afghanistan.
This remains the only time a NATO member has invoked Article 5, which says that an attack on one member is an attack on all.
Fatima al-Kassab, NPR News, London.
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Prime Minister Keir Starmer gave an emergency press conference from Downing Street calling the crisis over Greenland a very serious situation.
He criticised President Trump's threat of tariffs for countries that oppose Trump's plans to take over the semi-autonomous island controlled by Denmark.
Starmer played down the prospect of retaliatory tariffs on the US, saying that a trade war was in nobody's interest and that he hoped the issue could be resolved through calm discussion between allies.
Fatima Al-Kassab, NPR News, London.
Prince Harry, who is King Charles's younger son, has long said it is his mission to expose press intrusion by British newspapers.