Britain

British opposition Labour party leader Keir Starmer urged people on Thursday to leave Kate, the Princess of Wales, alone after she has become the focus of speculation, rumour and bizarre ...

British inflation slowed in February, keeping the Bank of England on track to start cutting interest rates in the months ahead and offering some better economic news to Prime Minister ...

The passage of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s contentious bill to deport refugees to Rwanda may be delayed until at least next month after the upper house of parliament ...

The British government will introduce a bill in parliament on Wednesday to fulfill its promise to phase out smoking among young people by banning tobacco sales for future generations. The ...

A second royal photograph issued to the media by Kensington Palace, the office of Prince William and his wife Kate, was digitally altered in eight places, Reuters saidafter an analysis ...

NatWest (NWG.L) will seek shareholder approval to buy back up to 15 per cent of its stock from the UK government, it said on Monday, as part of efforts to ...

A laughing Prince William was back at work on Tuesday, a day after the first footage emerged of his wife Kate since her surgery two months ago which showed the ...

Money market pricing and short-term trading signals make the idea of the first Bank of England rate cut coming in late summer look like a clear bet. Economists and strategists ...

Children in Britain stumble on violent content online, including material promoting self-harm, while still at primary school and say it is an “inevitable part” of using the internet, according to ...

The Bank of England will probably keep investors guessing next week about when it is likely to start cutting interest rates as it waits for clearer signs that inflation pressures ...

The Bank of England will start cutting borrowing costs in the third quarter although 40 per cent of economists saw an earlier trim, according to a Reuters poll which showed it ...

Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority “would not stand in the way” of moves to end Britain’s free banking model if lenders chose to offset rising regulation costs by charging ...

Britain unveiled a new definition of extremism on Thursday in response to an eruption of hate crimes against Jews and Muslims since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, although critics ...

Female acts will fill two of the three headline slots at Britain’s Glastonbury Festival for the first time in June when Dua Lipa and SZA top the bill alongside ...

Britain’s government outlined plans on Wednesday to stop foreign states from owning newspapers, potentially giving ministers the power to block Abu Dhabi-backed RedBird IMI’s bid to buy the ...

The British government is planning to pay asylum seekers up to £3,000 each to move to Rwanda under a voluntary plan to help clear the backlog of refugees who have had ...

A Romanian court approved a request from Britain to extradite internet personality Andrew Tate, but postponed doing so until Romanian trial proceedings finish, it said on Tuesday. The court also ...

King Charles hailed the work of the Commonwealth in its 75th anniversary year on Monday, although the British monarch was absent from annual celebrations for the organisation he leads as ...

Kate, Britain’s Princess of Wales, issued an apology on social media on Monday for “any confusion” caused by an edited photograph which was issued by her office Kensington Palace ...

Kate, Britain’s Princess of Wales, thanked the public on Sunday for their support in her first public message since undergoing abdominal surgery in January, posting a picture of herself ...

Tesco (TSCO.L), Britain’s biggest retailer, said this week it would raise store workers’ hourly pay by 9.1 per cent, in a move that reflects the increase in the government-mandated ...

A pro-Palestinian activist slashed a painting of the early 20th-century British foreign minister Arthur Balfour at Cambridge University on Friday, saying his 1917 declaration was the reason the Palestinians had lost ...

The actions of a senior British informer in the Irish Republican Army (IRA) codenamed “Stakeknife” probably cost more lives than they saved in Northern Ireland’s sectarian conflict, an independent ...

British house prices rose for a fifth month in a row in February, climbing by 0.4 per cent from January, according to data from mortgage lender Halifax on Thursday that echoed ...