Britain

British inflation unexpectedly held steady in September, raising the prospect of a Bank of England interest rate cut this year and offering some relief to finance minister Rachel Reeves ahead ...

Britain’s borrowing in the first half of the financial year was the highest on record except during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, keeping up the pressure on finance ...

Asking prices for British homes barely rose in what is usually a busy autumn sales period, according to a survey published on Monday that added to signs of uncertainty in ...

Prince Andrew giving up his royal titles was the “right course of action,” a senior British government minister said on Monday, a day after police said they were examining allegations ...

The British government launched on Monday a club of 20 of the country’s largest pension funds to try to drum up coordinated backing for local infrastructure, as major pension funds ...

Prince Andrew said on Friday he would give up using his title of Duke of York following years of criticism about his behaviour and connections to the late U.S. ...

Three British right-wing extremists were jailed for a total of 29 years on Friday after they were convicted of planning to carry out an attack at mosques or synagogues as part ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said fans of Israeli side Maccabi Tel Aviv should not be barred from a soccer match in Birmingham next month, as tensions over antisemitism ...

When Andrew (not his real name) lost his job during the COVID-19 pandemic, he turned to work as a courier. His days became a slog – cycling for hours in rain ...

Britain’s economy returned to growth in August when it expanded by a marginal 0.1 per cent from July, official data showed on Thursday, offering a little bit of relief to ...

A British funeral director on Wednesday pleaded guilty to more than 30 charges of fraud after a police investigation into human remains at his business, including some charges relating to unborn ...

Britain’s Chancellor Rachel Reeves said she was looking at both tax rises and spending cuts for her budget on November 26, confirming widely held expectations given her pledges about balancing ...

British anti-Islam activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, went on trial on Monday accused of refusing to give police his phone PIN when stopped under counter-terrorism laws, and said billionaire Elon Musk was ...

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 ...