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The Guardian - UK
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Miranda Bryant in Stockholm and agencies

Two of Norway’s top female politicians hit by scandal over husbands’ secret shares

Anniken Huitfeldt and Erna Solberg
Anniken Huitfeldt, left, and Erna Solberg both deny any knowledge of their husbands’ share trading. Photograph: Reuters

The careers of two of Norway’s most powerful female politicians are hanging in the balance after their husbands were found to be secretly trading in shares.

In two separate cases, the country’s foreign minister, Anniken Huitfeldt, of the Labour party, and the Conservative party leader and former prime minister Erna Solberg, are facing calls to resign. They both deny having knowledge of what their husbands were doing.

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