LONDON (Reuters) – A euro zone breakup would be challenging for British exporters but there would be still be export opportunities both in Europe and in emerging markets, the head of Britain’s trade and investment promotion agency said on Friday.

The British government is making contingency plans for a possible split in the currency bloc, including a study of its impact on private companies, Nick Baird, chief executive of UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), told Reuters in an interview.

LONDON (Reuters) – The standoff over Iran’s nuclear program is entering a more dangerous phase and the risk of conflict will increase if Iran does not negotiate, British Foreign Secretary William Hague warned on Wednesday.

He said Britain was considering further sanctions on Iran’s financial and energy sectors after a U.N. nuclear agency report that he said “completely discredited” Iran’s assertion that its nuclear program was peaceful.

LONDON (Reuters) – Attempts by China, Russia and others to gain more control over the Internet are doomed to failure, Britain said on Wednesday, after hosting a major conference on cyberspace that it said sent a clear signal to authoritarian governments.

Speaking after the London conference attended by 60 nations, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said threats of cyberterrorism and cybercrime were real, but should not be used as a pretext for online repression.

LONDON, Nov 1 (Reuters) – Britain and the United States
strongly rejected calls from China and Russia for greater
Internet controls on Tuesday at a major conference on the future
of cyberspace, although Western states too faced accusations of
double standards.

While Western states worry about intellectual property theft
and hacking, authoritarian governments are alarmed at the role
the Internet and social media played in the protests that swept
the Arab world this year.

LONDON, Nov 1 (Reuters) – Britain and the United States
rejected calls from China and Russia for greater Internet
controls on Tuesday at the opening of a major cyberspace
conference, but Western states faced accusations of double
standards.

Ministers, tech executives and Internet activists are
meeting over two days in London to discuss how to tackle
security threats and crime on the Internet without stifling
economic opportunities or freedom of speech.

LONDON, Nov 1 (Reuters) – Britain rejected calls from China
and Russia for greater Internet controls on Tuesday at the
opening of a major cyberspace conference but was criticised for
suggesting curbs on social media after recent riots.

Ministers, tech executives and Internet activists are
meeting over two days in London to discuss how to tackle
security threats and crime on the Internet without stifling
economic opportunities or freedom of speech.

LONDON, Nov 1 (Reuters) – Ministers, tech executives and
Internet activists from around the world gather in London on
Tuesday to discuss how to tackle security threats and crime on
the Internet without stifling economic opportunities or freedom
of speech.

The London Conference on Cyberspace will look at ways to
increase international cooperation in addressing issues raised
by the rapid expansion of the Internet, as fast-growing
economies are increasingly agitating for governments to have a
bigger say in its regulation.

TUNBRIDGE WELLS, England (Reuters) – In Tunbridge Wells, a typically English small town south of London, workers and shoppers around the modern shopping mall talk readily about their frustrations with the EU and their desire for a referendum that could lead Britain to the exit.

Alarm over the euro zone debt crisis has driven hostility to the European Union to new heights in Britain, where voters in the rural heartlands are increasingly ready to say they want to leave the 27-nation bloc after a difficult 38 years.

TUNBRIDGE WELLS (Reuters) – In Tunbridge Wells, a typically English small town south of London, workers and shoppers around the modern shopping mall talk readily about their frustrations with the EU and their desire for a referendum that could lead Britain to the exit.

Alarm over the euro zone debt crisis has driven hostility to the European Union to new heights in Britain, where voters in the rural heartlands are increasingly ready to say they want to leave the 27-nation bloc after a difficult 38 years.

LONDON, Oct 25 (Reuters) – A British cabinet minister said
on Tuesday London would try to claw back powers from Brussels
after a parliamentary revolt by members of Prime Minister David
Cameron’s party who want a referendum on quitting the European
Union.

“I think that we should take powers back over employment
law. I think that we should take powers back that affect our
capacity to grow,” Education Secretary Michael Gove, a close
Cameron ally, told the BBC when asked how leaders would respond
to Monday’s anti-government vote by about 80 Conservatives.