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May 2 (Reuters) - 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)