Britain

Some of the world’s biggest carmakers manipulated diesel emissions tests because they “would rather cheat than comply with the law”, lawyers for over 1.6 million claimants told London’s High ...

British business activity grew at the slowest pace in five months in September as companies and consumers put big spending decisions on hold as they waited to see if they ...

Britain’s government has announced it would seek to streamline the process for home-buying under its latest plans to give a boost to the property market. The proposals could cut ...

An Afghan national was on Friday found guilty of making a threat in a TikTok video to kill Nigel Farage, the leader of the populist Reform UK party which leads ...

Britain designated Google as having strategic market status in online search on Friday, paving the way for ‘proportionate, targeted’ interventions in the first use of the country’s new regulatory ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and British counterpart Keir Starmer hailed the potential on Thursday of their months-old trade deal to transform commercial links, as London unveiled new Indian investment ...

The man whose attack on a synagogue in northern England last week resulted in the deaths of two Jewish worshippers phoned police to say he was acting for Islamic State, ...

Nigel Farage, the leader of the populist Reform UK party which leads opinion polls in Britain, told a court on Tuesday an Afghan migrant’s TikTok video about him while ...

British construction activity shrank for a ninth month in a row in September, though at the slowest pace in three months, and broader private sector activity fell for the first ...

A flurry of listings on the London Stock Exchange last week has raised hopes of a revival after one of the most sluggish years on record, bankers and advisers said. ...

A woman who is a known stalker of Prince Harry came close to the son of King Charles on two occasions during his recent visit to Britain, a security source ...

illy Cooper, the British author of novels such as “Rivals” and “Riders” whose 1980s bestsellers were a blend of sex, satire and British snobbery, has died aged 88, her agent said ...

Changes to British consumers’ behaviour that emerged at the start of a cost-of-living crisis in 2022, such as more eating at home, have stuck, according to the CEO of Tesco (TSCO....

British police will be given powers to restrict repeat protests in the same place, the government said on Sunday after a latest pro-Palestinian demonstration went ahead despite requests to cancel ...

London police arrested dozens of protesters for supporting a banned pro-Palestinian group at a demonstration on Saturday which went ahead despite requests to call it off after a deadly attack ...

Sarah Mullally was named on Friday as the first female Archbishop of Canterbury in the 1,400-year history of the role, but her appointment immediately drew criticism from conservative Anglicans mainly ...

British police said on Friday they may have accidentally shot two victims, including one who died, in their attempts to bring under control an attack on a Manchester synagogue during ...

Two men were killed on Thursday when a man drove a car into pedestrians and stabbed a security guard in an attack at a synagogue where worshippers were marking Yom ...

At least two people were killed when an assailant drove a car into pedestrians and stabbed a security guard near a synagogue in England where worshippers were marking Yom Kippur, ...

Having been badly burned by the British government’s major tax-raising budget last year, business leaders told ministers at the ruling Labour Party’s annual conference that they could no ...

Prices at British retailers rose at the fastest pace since February 2024 this month as food costs continued to increase rapidly and a decline for non-food items appeared close to an ...

Britain’s economy slowed in the second quarter of 2025 after a strong start to the year, official figures showed this week, highlighting the challenges facing finance minister Rachel Reeves as ...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer appealed directly to working-class voters on Tuesday, calling on Labour’s traditional supporters to reject the “snake oil” peddled by the populist Reform UK party and ...

British Chancellor Rachel Reeves mounted a staunch defence on Monday of her commitment to “economic responsibility”, countering those in the Labour Party who want her to ease her fiscal rules ...