Britain

Britain’s parliament voted on Friday in favour of a bill to legalise assisted dying, paving the way for the country’s biggest social change in a generation. Three-hundred-and-fourteen lawmakers ...

British lawmakers will vote on Friday on whether to proceed with a bill to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill people, in what would be the biggest social reform in ...

The Bank of England held interest rates at 4.25 per cent as expected on Thursday but said it was focused on risks from a weaker labour market and higher energy prices ...

More British fighter jets and other aircraft “will follow in [the] coming days” to the region, the United Kingdom’s Defence Secretary John Healey said on Tuesday night. Addressing a ...

A member of Irish rap group Kneecap appeared in a London court on Wednesday charged with a terrorism offence for allegedly displaying a flag in support of Iran-backed Lebanese militia ...

British inflation cooled in May as expected by the Bank of England, which is set to keep interest rates on hold this week while it assesses international energy markets rocked ...

London’s Oxford Street, one of Britain’s busiest and most famous shopping districts, will be pedestrianised, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said on Tuesday, in a move designed to ...

Asking prices for homes put up for sale in Britain have fallen by the most in 14 years for the time of year, according to data released this week that adds ...

Britain and the United States should finalize “very soon” the implementation of a trade deal agreed last month, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday ahead of a meeting with ...

British police will be ordered to record the ethnicity of gangs involved in organised child sexual abuse after a report on Monday detailed state failures to tackle the issue and ...

Britain has named Blaise Metreweli, a career intelligence officer, as the first female head of the Secret Intelligence Service, the foreign spy service known as MI6. Metreweli, 47, who is currently ...

The United Kingdom could potentially support Israel in its conflict with Iran, but the decision to send additional military jets to the Middle East was made mainly to protect British ...

Britain’s economic output fell sharply in April, reflecting shockwaves from US President Donald Trump’s announcement of wide-ranging tariffs and the end of a tax break on property sales, ...

British Chancellor Rachel Reeves prioritised spending on health, defence and infrastructure projects to drive economic growth in a bid on Wednesday to reboot the Labour government’s offer of a ...

The British economy will grow a mild 1 per cent this year with the Bank of England set to cut interest rates two more times in 2025, according to economists polled by ...

Pay growth in Britain slowed sharply and unemployment rose to its highest in nearly four years in the three months to April, official data showed on Tuesday, potentially making the ...

British house prices in May were 3.5 per cent higher than a year earlier, monthly data from mortgage lender Nationwide showed this week, after an unexpected 0.5 per cent monthly increase largely ...

British Chancellor Rachel Reeves will divvy up more than 2 trillion pounds ($2.7 trillion) of public money between her ministerial colleagues on Wednesday, making choices that will define what the year-old Labour ...

Britain’s financial watchdog has joined forces with foreign regulators to crack down on people who promote financial products on social media without authorisation, and will make 650 requests for platforms ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party won a surprise victory on Friday in a fiercely fought by-election for the Scottish parliament, while support for the right-wing Reform UK ...

Britain said on Thursday it would step up efforts to protect its water resources ahead of the summer, after the driest and warmest spring in England in over 130 years. The ...

British Chancellor Rachel Reeves said on Wednesday more pensioners will receive winter fuel payments starting this winter, following the government’s U-turn on the cuts in the payments to the ...

A bill has been tabled in the United Kingdom’s parliament with the aim of allowing direct flights between the country and northern Cyprus. The bill, an “early day motion”, ...

The number of mortgages approved by British lenders for house purchase fell more than expected in April to their lowest in over a year as the market adjusted to higher ...