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Thursday newspaper round-up: Brexit deal, GVC, Facebook, vaping cigarettes

By Michele Maatouk

Date: Thursday 15 Nov 2018

Thursday newspaper round-up: Brexit deal, GVC, Facebook, vaping cigarettes

(Sharecast News) - Theresa May confronted her mutinous party with the threat of "no Brexit at all" after she forced her draft deal with the EU through a divided cabinet. Esther McVey, the welfare secretary, was believed to be on the verge of quitting last night after clashes at the end of a marathon five-hour meeting. She was shouted down by the chief whip and cabinet secretary after she demanded a vote by ministers on the deal. - The Times
Shareholders in GVC Holdings, the owner of Ladbrokes, were counting their winnings yesterday after a government U-turn on fixed-odds betting machines spared the gambling operator a potential £700 million payout. Shares of GVC jumped by 43½p, or 5.6 per cent, to 821p - an increase in its value of £253 million - as Theresa May caved in after a Commons revolt and brought forward the introduction of a £2 maximum stake on the machines. - The Times

Facebook hired a PR firm that attempted to discredit the company's critics by claiming they were agents of billionaire George Soros, the New York Times reported Tuesday. Soros is a Jewish philanthropist who is the frequent subject of antisemitic conspiracy theories. At the same time, the social media company urged the Anti-Defamation League to object to a cartoon used by anti-Facebook protesters over its resemblance to antisemitic tropes.- Guardian

The convicted former UBS trader Kweku Adoboli has been deported from the UK to Ghana, his country of birth, after Home Office officials put him on a flight from Heathrow airport on Wednesday afternoon. Adoboli, who was arrested in Glasgow on Monday when he went to report to the Home Office, was taken to Harmondsworth immigration removal centre on Monday. He was not informed about when and how he would be deported but on Wednesday afternoon he was taken by five escorts to Heathrow airport and was due to be put on a flight at about 5pm to be returned to Ghana, where he has not lived since the age of four. - Guardian

Vaping products that have been pulled from sale in the US over fears about underage buyers remain on shelves at Sainsbury's in the UK. The US e-cigarette giant Juul, which struck a deal with the British supermarket earlier this month, has banned the sale of several of its flavoured cartridges after an outcry in the US. The company has also stopped using social media sites including Twitter and Instagram to promote its products in an attempt to extinguish criticism that it markets its products to children, and strengthened its age verification processes to restrict sales to those who are under 21 years old. - Telegraph

DeepMind has defended a deal it made with Google to relinquish control of its health venture, claiming it will save "millions" of lives. Dominic King, the British artificial intelligence lab's health chief, was responding to criticism after Google said it would absorb DeepMind's health division. The US internet giant had promised to establish a firewall between itself and DeepMind when it bought the company in 2014, but revealed on Tuesday that the lab's health division and its Streams app, developed with the NHS, would become part of Google. - Telegraph





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