PRESS DIGEST-Financial Times - May 2
Headlines - Uber faces 250 mln pounds lawsuit from London's black-cab drivers - Donation to Welsh first minister should be probed, says Rishi Sunak - Interest earned by big UK high street banks on BoE reserves surges to 9.2 bln Stg - UK Home Office detains asylum seekers destined for Rwanda - Scotland's government survives no-confidence vote Overview - Uber is facing a 250 million pound ($313.35 million) lawsuit to be filed in London's High Court on Thursday on behalf of more than 10,500 cab drivers, which alleges that Uber improperly obtained a licence from Transport for London in 2012.
The following are the top stories in the Financial Times. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. Headlines
- Uber faces 250 mln pounds lawsuit from London's black-cab drivers - Donation to Welsh first minister should be probed, says Rishi Sunak
- Interest earned by big UK high street banks on BoE reserves surges to 9.2 bln Stg - UK Home Office detains asylum seekers destined for Rwanda
- Scotland's government survives no-confidence vote Overview
- Uber is facing a 250 million pound ($313.35 million) lawsuit to be filed in London's High Court on Thursday on behalf of more than 10,500 cab drivers, which alleges that Uber improperly obtained a licence from Transport for London in 2012. - British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has called for an independent probe into a 200,000 pound donation to Welsh first minister Vaughan Gething's leadership campaign from a recycling company within months of its subsidiary receiving a 400,000 pound loan from a state-owned bank.
- Interest earned by the UK's largest high street banks on their Bank of England reserves surged 135 per cent to more than 9 billion pounds last year, according to data released on Wednesday. - The UK Home Office enforcement teams began detaining asylum seekers destined for removal to Rwanda in a "large scale" operation across the UK on Wednesday as the union for senior civil servants started legal proceedings over the policy.
- The Scottish government has survived a vote of no confidence, preventing a collapse of the Scottish National party administration at Holyrood. ($1 = 0.7978 pounds) (Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)
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