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Greens deal major blow to UK's Starmer with Manchester by-election victory

Greens deal major blow to UK's Starmer with Manchester by-election victory

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The Green Party wins the Gorton and Denton by-election in Greater Manchester with Labour coming a distant third. The result will pile more pressure and scrutiny on Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer ahead of crucial UK local elections in May. Netflix abandons its acquisition deal for Warner Brothers Discovery after it refused to match Paramount’s offer of $31 per share for the group’s entire media portfolio. Netflix shares have moved higher as a result. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has been branded a ‘liar’ with a ‘God complex’ by a senior Pentagon official, increasing tensions between the U.S. government and the A.I. giant regarding the use of its model’s guardrails. And in the banking sector, Barclays and Banco Santander see shares dive following reports the lenders have millions in exposure to a collapsed private UK mortgage provider facing fraud allegations.

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