Great Britain News Brief – Thursday, 26 February 2026
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UK's Starmer faces latest test in tight-run local vote – Reuters UK’s Starmer faces latest test in tight-run local vote · Starmer says vote for Greens is a vote for Reform · First electoral test of prime minister. Russia says sending British troops to Ukraine would prolong war, not end it | Reuters Russia’s foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday that any deployment of British troops in Ukraine would prolong the war,. Royal Shakespeare Company to stage all-male As You Like It – The Times.
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Russia says sending British troops to Ukraine would prolong war, not end it | Reuters
Russia’s foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday that any deployment of British troops in Ukraine would prolong the war, ……
Fall in UK net migration threatens to carve deep hole in public finances – Financial Times
Chancellor Rachel Reeves wants to showcase the UK as a haven of fiscal stability in next week’s Spring Statement. But official forecasts will ……
Nobody wants to defend Britain's voting system any more – but here's why I will | Gaby Hinsliff
The nail-biting Gorton and Denton byelection has shown the cracks in first past the post. I still don’t think proportional representation is the ……
First Ukrainian drone factory opens in Britain – The Telegraph
The £200m facility is the first such manufacturing site in the UK and will produce thousands of drones for Kyiv. It is run by Ukrspecsystems, a ……
'Father of graphene' Andre Geim leaves Britain for chair professorship at HKU
British Nobel laureate who has kept close ties with Chinese researchers says he is drawn to Hong Kong’s distinctive East-West synergy….
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