May 23 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories on the business pages of British newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

The Times

- Artificial intelligence lab Anthropic's new head of its business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Guillaume Princen, said the AI company was seeing "huge demand" in Britain.

- Rio Tinto RIO.L CEO Jakob Stausholm, who in his 4-1/2-year tenure oversaw a big bet on lithium and a cultural overhaul at a firm strongly criticised for workplace toxicity, is to step down, the miner said in a surprise to investors.

The Guardian

- British Minister for Public Health Ashley Dalton said the government intends to make and lay a statutory instrument (SI) to explicitly exempt 'brand advertising' from the restrictions.

- Britain's House of Commons justice committee accused the leader of the Criminal Cases Review Commission $(CCRC)$ Karen Kneller of giving "problematic" evidence to the committee and said her position was no longer tenable.

The Telegraph

- Tesco TSCO.L, Britain's biggest supermarket group, said Matthew Barnes, its British boss who was seen by some analysts as the likely successor to group CEO Ken Murphy, has stepped down after just 15 months in the job.

- British chemicals company Johnson Matthey JMAT.L has agreed to sell its catalyst technologies business to Honeywell International HON.O for 1.8 billion pounds ($2.42 billion), including debt.

Sky News

- Phoenix Group PHNX.L, the FTSE-100 pensions provider, is planning to rebrand itself using the historic Standard Life name it acquired four years ago.

- Britain signed a deal to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after a London judge overturned a last-minute injunction and cleared the way for an agreement the government says is vital to protect the nation's security.

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