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He promised to deregulate industry and embolden the oil and auto industries.

Sir Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, said by focusing on Mr Kaba’s ethnicity, they had created "rumour and innuendo” which could “embolden those who work against the public".

Putin’s success in Ukraine would likely embolden Chinese leader Xi Jinping to step up pressure on Taiwan.

Democrats say the move would embolden President Vladimir Putin.

The second Trump administration, Northup warned, would likely work to stop the provision of medication abortion by mail, push a national abortion ban, and embolden conservative states to lead more prosecutions and investigations against providers and patients who sought to cross state lines.