Britain

British consumers increased their borrowing in May by the most in four months after a dip in April, Bank of England data showed on Monday, adding to signs of recovering ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will on Monday say only his Conservatives can counter a Labour-led government and that a vote for Nigel Farage’s right-wing Reform UK would hamper ...

The winners of Britain’s election on Thursday – which looks set to end 14 years in power for the Conservative Party – will take on some of the biggest challenges faced by ...

Keir Starmer, leader of the opposition Labour Party and favourite to become Britain’s next prime minister, said on Friday he would quit if his party failed to win the ...

In the shopping streets and housing estates of the south London town of Croydon, some once-derelict buildings are slowly coming back to life. At a former school, peeling walls are ...

Support for Nigel Farage‘s right-wing Reform UK party has fallen ahead of a July 4 election, a poll showed on Thursday, after he said the West had provoked Russian President ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Keir Starmer went head-to-head on Wednesday in their last debate before an election next week, with both launching highly personal attacks over ...

Russian pranksters who often target people the Russian state is interested in released footage on Wednesday of a video call with British Foreign Secretary David Cameron after tricking him into ...

British manufacturing orders contracted in June at a reduced pace compared with a month earlier, despite a sharp drop in export orders, according to a survey from the Confederation of ...

Free speech organisations welcomed the news of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s release from jail in Britain but said the U.S. case had still set a bad precedent for ...

Princess Anne, King Charles’ younger sister, suffered minor injuries and concussion following an incident on Sunday and is in hospital as a precaution, Buckingham Palace said, adding that she was ...

Britain’s Manchester Airport was resuming operations and expected flights to restart on Sunday afternoon and evening, airport authorities said, after a power outage caused widespread disruption at Terminals 1 and 2 ...

A photo posted on Kensington Palace’s X social media feed with the caption “Thank you @taylorswift13 for a great evening!” showed William smiling as Swift took a selfie with ...

Nigel Farage, the leader of Britain’s right-wing Reform UK party, said the eastward of expansion of the European Union and NATO had provoked Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion ...

British house prices rose for a second month in a row in April, increasing by an annual 1.1 per cent to an average of 281,000 pounds ($358,000) after a 0.9 per cent rise in ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he was “incredibly angry” to hear that three of his party colleagues were being investigated over allegedly placing bets on an early announcement of ...

NatWest (NWG.L) has struck a deal to acquire most of the banking business of UK retailer Sainsbury’s (SBRY.L), the companies said on Thursday, in a deal that ...

British Chancellor Jeremy Hunt on Thursday said it would be “very tough” for the Conservatives to win the July 4 election, after opinion polls predicted a landslide win for the opposition ...

The Bank of England kept its main interest rate unchanged at a 16-year high of 5.25 per cent at its last meeting before July 4’s UK election, but the prospect of ...

The Royal Mail, a 508-year-old British institution, is on the brink of a significant transformation as its board has agreed in principle to a takeover bid from Czech billionaire Daniel ...

British inflation returned to its 2 per cent target for the first time in nearly three years in May, but strong underlying price pressures all but rule out a pre-election interest ...

Britain’s financial watchdog will wait until after next month’s national election to publish its review into how banks conduct mandatory extra checks on “politically exposed” customers and their ...

More than 800 asylum seekers arrived in Britain via small boats on Tuesday, the highest single-day figure since late 2022, adding to pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ahead of a July 4 ...

British police said on Tuesday they had found three children aged 14, 9 and 7 who had been reported missing after a day out at a theme park 20 miles south west of London. ...