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‘I had to barricade myself in bedroom during work trip’, Mohamed al Fayed accuser says | UK News

A former personal assistant to Mohamed al Fayed has said she had to barricade herself in her room while staying in the late Harrods owner’s home.

Katherine, who did not want to provide her last name, told Sky News that on another occasion Fayed forced himself on her and she “fought him off”.

Fayed is facing a string of allegations from numerous women, including claims of serial rape, attempted rape, sexual battery and sexual abuse of minors.

The billionaire died last year before the allegations were made public.

Katherine said she was in her early thirties when she was hired as a senior personal assistant to Fayed and at the time she thought it would be “the best thing on my CV ever”.

When she applied for the job, it was only advertised as working for a “high net-worth individual” so it was “a bit daunting” to find out she would be working under Fayed as he was a “well-known figure”.

“But I’d already worked for high net-worth individuals, so I thought I would take it in my stride,” Katherine said.

However, within just a day or two, she began to feel “really uncomfortable” around Fayed, she said.

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She alleged her boss was using “sexualised” language and initially she had wondered if it was his sense of humour.

“But within a few days, I was starting to get worried,” she said.

During a work trip to one of Fayed’s private residences just outside Paris, Katherine claims she had to barricade herself inside her room.

She had thought security staff and housekeepers would also be staying overnight at the property, but they all left in the evening.

“Suddenly I realised then it’s just you and him and high gates and security outside, so you’re not going anywhere,” she said.

Katherine claims she “found myself sleeping in a room where there was no lock on the door, and I had to barricade that from the inside”.

“The next day, he called me into his office and shouted at me for blocking my door and said I was to never do that again,” she said. “So the assumption is that he had tried to get into the room and was unable to, and I was terrified, absolutely terrified by that. So I knew there was no way I could go back a second time.”

On another occasion, Katherine claims Fayed tried to force himself on her in his office.

“I fought him off and told him that, under no uncertain terms, I was only a PA and that wouldn’t be happening. And I was basically out of a job shortly after that,” she said.

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A group representing alleged victims of Fayed said on Thursday it had been contacted by more than 400 people, including further alleged victims and witnesses.

But Katherine said she had thought she was on her own and “it was something I was doing wrong”.

“I was hired at the same time as another person. We both had the same role and he [Fayed] kept us on totally different shifts. So I never had anyone I could go to and say ‘you know, is this happening to you?’ So I just assumed it was all happening to me and I was at fault,” she said.

The former PA said she had thought: “What am I doing that’s getting me taken away from the rest of the team and put in these situations in his office behind a closed door where he’s acting like this?”

Harrods has previously said it is “utterly appalled” by the claims of abuse and said it is a “very different organisation to the one owned and controlled by Fayed between 1985 and 2010”.

Inheritance tax change for farms may be Reeves’s version of the ‘pasty tax’, says Ruth Davidson | Politics News

Rachel Reeves will end up reversing her decision to charge more inheritance tax on farms, Ruth Davidson has predicted.

Speaking on Sky News’ Electoral Dysfunction podcast, the former Tory Scottish leader compared the move in the budget to George Osborne’s infamous “pasty tax” U-turn.

Discussing yesterday’s budget, Ms Davidson said she doesn’t believe the chancellor’s financial plan is an omnishambles, but of all the measures, she believes inheritance tax on farms is likely to be reversed.

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The reform on inheritance tax means from April 2026, the £1m of combined business and agricultural assets will continue to not be taxed.

But for assets over £1m, inheritance tax will apply with 50% relief (at an effective rate of 20%).

Ms Davidson said: “A million sounds like a lot.

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‘Raising taxes was not an easy decision’

“But if you’ve got a couple of farm buildings, sheds, machinery sheds, some land, like almost all family farms, even small family farms, are above that threshold.

“It’s a massive whacking great cash tax bill you have to give the government if you pass on your farm to your kids and they have to find, and the thing about farmers is they might be land rich, but they’re pretty much cash poor because farming is not massively profitable.”

The Scottish politician pointed to the outcry from farmers on social media, who, she said, are posting “heartbreaking” 30-second videos from their tractors.

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“The thing is that losing a farm is not like losing another business,” she added.

“It can’t come back, and the reason I know that is because that line is the exact line that Keir Starmer gave to the NFU conference last year.”

Celebrity farmer Jeremy Clarkson – whose Amazon Prime Clarkson’s Farm documents his forays into the world of farming – was another of those who reacted to the tax hike on X.

He wrote: “Farmers. I know that you have been shafted today. But please don’t despair.”

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While Location, Location, Location presenter Kirstie Allsopp added: “Rachel Reeves had f****d all farmers, she has destroyed their ability to pass farms on to their children, and broken the future of all our great estates, it is an appalling decision which shows the government has ZERO understanding of what matters to rural voters.”

The “pasty tax” refers to a proposal by Mr Osbourne in the March budget of 2012 which aimed to make hot takeaway snacks subject to 20% VAT.

The tax caused outrage among bakers at the time, and even led to pasty makers protesting outside Downing Street to deliver a petition opposing the controversial tax.

Budget 2024: Chancellor Rachel Reeves defends £40bn tax rises – ‘everything has to be paid for’ | Politics News

Rachel Reeves has defended raising taxes by the highest amount since 1993 as she said “everything has to be paid for”.

The chancellor announced £40bn worth of tax rises in Wednesday’s budget, with the lion’s share coming from a £25bn increase in employers’ National Insurance contributions.

She told Sky News’ Breakfast With Kay Burley that, unlike the previous Conservative government, she has included everything ministers will spend in their forecast, including £11.8bn compensation for victims of the infected blood scandal and £1.8bn for victims of the Post Office accounting scandal.

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Ms Reeves insisted the tax rises would “fix the foundations and wipe the slate clean” and that this would be a one-off budget.

She added: “As a result of what we’ve done, we’re not going to have to come back and ever do a budget like this again, because we’ve brought everything out into the open.”

The chancellor also admitted growth “is largely unchanged” in the next five years, as revealed by the Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) report on the budget.

But she said that is because she is looking at the economy in the long-term.

She said: “For the first time, the OBR are now looking at economic growth over a longer time frame.

“And that’s really important because often politicians make short-term decisions rather than things that are in the long term interests of the country.”

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‘Raising taxes was not an easy decision’

Ms Reeves said she had to make the tax rises she did, despite promising not to raise taxes beyond Labour’s manifesto, because of “the circumstances that I inherited” from the Conservatives as she repeated they left a £22bn black hole.

“I could have swept that under the carpet and pretended it didn’t exist, or try and raise a bit of money this year and a bit more next year,” she said.

“I didn’t want to do that.

“I wanted to be open and honest, to wipe the slate clean, to put our public finances on a stable trajectory, to make sure that our NHS is properly funded so we can bring down those huge waiting lists.”

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Ms Reeves’ predecessor, the Conservative Party’s Jeremy Hunt, said Wednesday was a “bad day for trust in British politics” and said it will mean “lower pay, lower living standards, higher inflation, higher mortgages” for ordinary families.

He told Sky News: “Because 30 times this year before the election, the chancellor said she had no plans to increase tax outside of what was explicitly written in the Labour manifesto.

“And we had the biggest tax raising budget in British history.”

The shadow chancellor said a Conservative budget would have taken “the harder path” by cutting the number of people on benefits to 2019 levels to fund public services, which he said would release £34bn a year.

He added he does not think “anyone actually believes this £22bn number… but she didn’t increase taxes by £22bn, she increased them by £40bn”.

“This was not about her legacy. This was a choice,” he added.

“This was the budget that she wanted to do all along. And it’s a legitimate choice. It’s one I disagree with. But if she’d wanted to do that, she should have told us before the election we could have had the debate.”

Safe zones outside abortion clinics come into effect | Politics News

From today, “safe access zones” will be introduced to create a 150m-wide area outside clinics to stop anti-abortion campaigners from handing out leaflets, holding vigils and showing graphic images to women near the sites.

The protection areas will be introduced outside all abortion clinics in England and Wales to ensure woman seeking abortion services will be better protected from harassment or distress.

The changes were made possible by the passage of a bill a year and a half ago, but the debate inside parliament was so heated, draft guidance was produced and the measures were delayed by a public consultation.

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Today, those boundaries will come into force and stop the sort of harassment from anti-abortion campaigners nurse Kendall Robbins says she experiences almost daily.

“We’ve been called names as we come into work, we’ve had instances where they’ve tried to physically block people coming in, sing hymns, images of the Virgin Mary, 16 people turn up for an hour or two,” Ms Robbins said.

“Women coming in are vulnerable, making one of the hardest decisions they’ve had to make. Having that aspect of people calling them names or passing judgment is something that’s really distressing.”

Police will now have discretion to consider each case individually, but examples of harassment could include: handing out anti-abortion leaflets, protesting against abortion rights, or shouting at individuals attempting to access abortion services.

Right To Life campaigner Madeline Page is particularly concerned this could also cover silent prayer and holding vigils. She says protesters are trying to offer support to women, despite often approaching them at a very vulnerable time.

She said: “I don’t think it’s fair to say that not every woman that goes into an abortion clinic is happy about that. I think pro-choicers would agree with me on that, too. And so, if they can be given resources or something else to help them make a different choice, then I think that’s something that we really ought to be doing. Regardless of which side of the argument you’re on.”

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Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) guidance states that a person carrying out activities within a zone such as silent prayer “will not necessarily commit a criminal offence”.

It adds: “Prosecutors will need to consider not only all the facts and circumstances of the particular conduct, but also the context in which the conduct takes place.”

The Home Office listed silent prayer as being among examples of behaviour which could amount to an offence – alongside holding vigils and handing out anti-abortion leaflets.

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Rupa Huq is a Labour MP, who has not only campaigned for these changes, but brought the original legislation to parliament.

“It’s quite an emotional moment really, because women have been fighting for years on this. And in my own area from the 90s, I remember as a kid seeing the intimidation that went on,” she said.

“So it is high time and that’s what happens when you have a Labour government. MPs had overwhelmingly voted for this under the Conservatives, but they dragged their heels and found any excuse to obfuscate.”

Legislation creating buffer zones around abortion clinics in Scotland came into force in September, while they have been in place in Northern Ireland for a year.

Labour has finally thrown the dice on its gamble to get Britain growing | Politics News

One hundred and eighteen days into the Labour government, and finally we get to see what the slogan on the front of the manifesto – Change – really means. And you might be forgiven for feeling rather blind sided.

Because the tax and spending plans outlined today by Chancellor Rachel Reeves in the first Labour budget are as hefty and historic as the Labour manifesto was vague.

In that document there are just a handful of pages of costings, and a commitment to £8bn of tax rises to fund spending commitments for more NHS appointments and more teachers.

There was nothing in those plans that signalled the £40bn of tax rises by the end of this parliament or the £76bn in increased spending.

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This is the biggest tax rising budget since 1993, with seismic spending and borrowing to invest. It is quite simply massive.

Painfully cautious when trying to win the election, now Labour is brazenly bold, having won a majority. But the question is do they really have a mandate for the tens of billions in new tax and spend commitments.

Repeatedly asked about tax and spending rises in the run-up to the election to avoid austerity and fund our hospital and schools, transport networks and communities, the prime minister told me – clearly – he had “no plans” to raise taxes beyond the manifesto commitments, while shadow cabinet minister after shadow cabinet minister insisted that improved public services would come through a combination of extra funding via economic growth and reform.

It simply didn’t add up then, and the cost is being laid bare now.

The argument made repeatedly to me by the chancellor on Wednesday is that these choices were made after Labour got in and looked under the bonnet of the public finances.

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Reeves told me: “When I became chancellor in July, officials at the Treasury presented me with information that the previous government were overspending to the tune of £22bn more than they had planned.

“In addition to that, there were compensation schemes that the previous government had signed up to, but had not budgeted for – infected blood and the Post Office Horizon scandal.

“And the previous government hadn’t done a spending review. And so as a result, we did need to raise taxes in this budget to put our public finances on a sound trajectory.”

A stretch to blame it all on the Tories

So her answer is to pin it all on the economic inheritance from the Conservatives and the so-called £22bn black hole.

But it’s a stretch to say the least.

Even if you accept a chunk of it, £8bn of that “black hole” comes from Labour’s decision to accept pay recommendations for public sector workers (did they really not expect to need billions to do this before the election?).

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An ‘eyewatering’ rise in taxes

And on spending, did Labour really not think more investment was needed in the NHS before the general election, when health thinktanks were all saying it did?

Then, shadow health secretary Wes Streeting told me repeatedly that it wasn’t about more money – it was all about reform and then economic growth.

Fast forward a few months, and Reeves on Wednesday announced an extra £25bn spending boost for the NHS over the next two years.

A traditional left-wing budget

Compare it to the Corbyn manifestos of 2017 and 2019, which the public roundly rejected, and the tax rises aren’t a million miles off.

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In 2017, Corbyn proposed a £43bn increase in taxes – while the 2019 manifesto, emphatically rejected by the public, proposed £80bn of rises.

When I asked Rachel Reeves if she was a half-fat version of Corbyn’s full-fat tax take, she roundly rejected it, saying: “I’ve never been compared to Jeremy Corbyn. I disagreed with everything that he was doing.”

But you take the point: this is a traditional – many would say left-wing – Labour budget, with a massive tax and spend envelope.

Corbyn at least levelled with the public in what he intended to do. Voters who crossed the floor in the election might well now regret it.

One Conservative MP told me tonight his inbox was filling with angry emails over changes to capital gains tax that are going to hit farmers who work their land after the chancellor announced combined business and agricultural assets worth under a million would continue to be exempt from inheritance tax, but above that there would be a 50% relief, at an effective rate of 20%, from April 2026.

And those who own shares, and from employers who are seeing hikes in their national insurance payments.

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A defining budget for this government

We at least now know what this Labour government is about.

This budget will define the Starmer administration in this parliament and the shape of the country beyond.

Such a big departure from manifesto promises – Labour has spent months blaming the Tories for the choices Rachel Reeves now makes.

But this is not really about the Conservatives anymore, it is about Labour’s – in their own words – “unprecedented” plan to rebuild Britain, and whether voters will go along with it or feel misled.

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The gamble is that by protecting the pay packets of working people and front-loading massive spending plans, funded by the wealthy and business, that towards the end of this parliament, Labour can say it has helped its core voters and improved Britain.

It’s a huge gamble with no certainty it will pay off. But at least they have finally thrown the dice.

Mpox: First case of Clade 1b strain detected in London | UK News

A case of a new strain of mpox has been detected in the UK for the first time, it has been announced.

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said a single case of the mpox virus variant Clade 1b was detected in London.

There was no evidence of community transmission from the patient, who is being treated at the Royal Free Hospital in London.

The person involved had been on holiday in Africa and travelled back to the UK on an overnight flight on 21 October.

The case was confirmed to the UKHSA on Tuesday.

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More than 24 hours later, they developed flu-like symptoms and on 24 October, started to develop a rash which got worse in the following days.

When they attended A&E in London on 27 October, they were swabbed, tested and then isolated while waiting for their results.

Fewer than ten direct contacts are being traced after the discovery, and Professor Susan Hopkins, Chief Medical Adviser at UKHSA, said the “risk to the UK population remains low”.

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“It is thanks to our surveillance that we have been able to detect this virus,” she said.

This is the first time Clade 1b has been detected in the UK. Germany reported its first Clade 1b case earlier this month.

At least 1,000 deaths from the strain had been reported across Africa at that time, which prompted the World Health Organisation (WHO) to declare the increasing spread of the disease a global health emergency for the second time in two years.

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Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting said the government was securing more vaccines and “equipping healthcare professionals with the guidance and tools they need to respond to cases safely”.

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Common symptoms of mpox include a skin rash or pus-filled lesions which can last two to four weeks. It can also cause fever, headaches, muscle aches, back pain, low energy and swollen lymph nodes.

Mpox, and the Clade 1b strain is usually passed on by close physical contact, contact with infected animals or sexual transmission. Professor Hopkins said there was no evidence of a transpiration route of infection.

Gay and bisexual men and men who have sex with men are considered the most at risk of contracting the virus, and vaccination clinics are focused in London, Manchester and Brighton, according to Professor Hopkins.

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Clade Ib mpox has been widely circulating in the Democratic Republic of Congo in recent months and there have also been cases reported in Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Sweden and India.

Passengers ‘removed from Heathrow plane after fight over Trump MAGA cap’ | US News

Two women were reportedly removed from a plane at Heathrow Airport when a fight broke out over a Make America Great Again (MAGA) cap.

According to The Sun, the American passengers started arguing when one asked the other to remove the red hat – worn by supporters of Donald Trump – as they waited to board the flight in Terminal 5.

The woman wearing the cap refused, at which point punches were exchanged and the pair were later escorted off the flight, the newspaper said.

The Metropolitan Police told Sky News that officers at the airport were called to an incident shortly after 12.45pm on Monday.

“A woman in her 40s and a woman in her 60s made counter allegations of affray,” the force said.

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Sky News has approached BA for comment.

The row caused the flight bound for Texas to take off two hours late, The Sun reported.

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MAGA caps have been worn by supporters of Mr Trump since he adopted the slogan during his first presidential election campaign, which he won in 2016.

With the US election on 5 November just round the corner, tensions are high between supporters of the Republican presidential candidate and his Democratic rival US Vice President Kamala Harris.

Exercising on weekends only may cut risk of mental decline, study shows | UK News

Exercising at the weekends only may be just as beneficial for slowing mental decline as working out throughout the week, researchers have said.

A study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine found that exercising on just one or two days was more effective at reducing the risk of mild dementia than more regular workouts.

It adds to a growing body of evidence that it is not when you exercise, but the fact you are doing it, that improves health.

A separate study published last month found that being a weekend exercise “warrior” cuts the risk of developing more than 200 diseases ranging from high blood pressure and diabetes to mood disorders and kidney disease.

The latest study concluded: “The weekend warrior physical activity pattern may be a more convenient option for busy people around the world.”

Researchers found that the risk of mild dementia was reduced by an average of 15% in the “weekend warriors” who exercised once or twice per week and by 10% in the “regularly active” who exercised more often.

After taking account of factors that might influence the results, such as age, smoking, sleep duration, diet and alcohol intake, the researchers suggested both exercise patterns had similar effects.

“We found that around 10% of [mild dementia] cases would be eliminated if all middle-aged adults were to take part in sport or exercise once or twice per week or more often,” they said.

“To the best of our knowledge, this is the first prospective cohort study to show that the weekend warrior physical activity pattern is associated with reduced risk of mild dementia.”

Academics from Colombia, Chile and Glasgow examined two sets of survey data from the Mexico City Prospective Study for the latest research.

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Some 10,033 people with an average age of 51 completed both surveys.

The authors suggested several possible explanations for why exercise may protect the brain.

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“Exercise may increase brain-derived neurotrophic factor concentrations [molecules that support the growth and survival of neurons] and brain plasticity,” they said.

“Physical activity is also associated with greater brain volume, greater executive function and greater memory.”

A second study in the same journal also found that exercise of any intensity is linked to a 30% lower risk of death from any cause after a diagnosis of dementia.

Those researchers said people affected should be encouraged to keep up or start an exercise routine, especially as the average life expectancy after a diagnosis of dementia may be only about four to five years.

Whole Tory cabinet knew Rwanda Bill wouldn’t work, Robert Jenrick claims | Politics News

‘Everyone in cabinet’ knew the Rwanda deportation bill would not work, according to Conservative leadership hopeful Robert Jenrick.

Speaking to the Politics Hub With Sophy Ridge, the former Home Office minister implied that every senior government minister in the last administration didn’t think the plans to send asylum seekers to Kigali would work.

Mr Jenrick resigned from Rishi Sunak’s government at the end of 2023, saying he did not believe the plans went far enough.

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Speaking to Sky News, Mr Jenrick explained why he left government: “There was a choice for me at the time: take a bill through parliament which I knew didn’t work and which, frankly, everyone in cabinet knew didn’t work; or leave the government and make the case in parliament, where I was honest with myself and with the public.”

Asked to confirm if he thought everyone in the cabinet – which includes the prime minister, home secretary and all senior ministers – thought the Rwanda Bill would not work, he said: “I think everybody involved in that decision knew perfectly well that that policy was not going to succeed, but they turned a blind eye to it.

“I wasn’t willing to be a minister like that.”

Mr Jenrick would not give specific names of who in cabinet – aside from himself – did not think the plans would work.

He has said he wants a legally enforced cap on migration, and also to leave the European Convention on Human Rights.

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Mickey Mouse mural

Sophy Ridge also asked Mr Jenrick about one of the most controversial moments of his time in the Home Office – when he ordered a mural of Mickey Mouse at a reception centre for young asylum seekers be painted over.

During the leadership race he has said he would not do the same thing again – but he has so far refused to apologise.

“I would never want to do anything that was anything other than compassionate towards children,” he said.

“When I was a minister responsible for immigration, I did a lot to try and ensure that we were looking after unaccompanied children properly.

“When I came into office, we were housing them in rudimentary hotels in seaside towns. [We] closed them down and got those young people into foster care and more appropriate accommodation.”

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Mr Jenrick says he was concerned about “a large number of adults” entering the UK and posing as children – “placing actual children” in “real danger”.

Jobs for the old rivals

Another topic touched on in the in interview was whether Mr Jenrick would give other MPs who wanted to be leader a job in his shadow cabinet, should he win.

“I want to get the best players on to the pitch,” Mr Jenrick said.

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He added that the other member of the final two, Kemi Badenoch, “should get a senior position in which she can play a full part in restoring and renewing the Conservative Party”.

And James Cleverly, who came third, would be welcome to serve as Mr Jenrick’s deputy if he wishes, as he’s “a unifying presence”.

Sporting confirm Man Utd interest in appointing Ruben Amorim as new manager | UK News

Portuguese football club Sporting have confirmed they have received an approach from Manchester United for their manager, Ruben Amorim.

United sacked their previous coach, Dutchman Erik ten Hag, on Monday.

Amorim led Sporting to their first league title in 19 years in 2021 and repeated the achievement with the Lisbon club last season.

So far this season, his side have won all nine of their league games and are top of their league.

The 39-year-old is one of the most sought-after young coaches in football and had reportedly been in the running to replace Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool.

Sporting say United have “expressed interest” in paying the €10m release clause in their manager’s contract.

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