Britain

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Party overtook Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party in an opinion poll for the first time on Thursday ahead of Britain’s election on ...

Wet weather helped bring Britain’s economic growth to a halt in April after a strong start to 2024, and the opposition Labour Party jumped on the figures to attack Prime ...

The Bank of England will start cutting interest rates in August, according to all but two of 65 economists polled by Reuters, and most of them expect at least one more ...

A fall in permanent hiring by employers in Britain was its least severe in more than a year in May and the recruitment market appears to be poised for a ...

Britain’s right-wing Reform UK party, led by Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage, called on Monday for a £40 billion ($51 billion) tax cut for voters, funded by scrapping the interest paid to ...

US private equity giant Blackstone (BX.N) has agreed to buy 1,750 new homes to rent from British housebuilder Vistry (VTYV.L), as institutional investors bet on a shortage of rental ...

British house prices rose in May after falling in the previous two months as the property market withstood high borrowing costs, according to figures from mortgage lender Nationwide. Prices increased ...

British manufacturers reported a return to growth last month after a long slowdown, according to a survey published this week, but the higher prices charged by firms may add to ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, in a new setback to his election campaign, apologised on Friday for leaving D-Day commemorations early to give an interview in which he attacked the ...

Britain’s markets regulator is expected to narrow down plans to name companies under investigation, four lawyers told Reuters, after a government and industry backlash labelled the proposals misjudged and ...

A 25-year-old woman has been charged with the offences of assault by beating and criminal damage after throwing a milkshake over Nigel Farage, the leader of Britain’s Reform Party, ...

Banknotes featuring a portrait of King Charles entered circulation in Britain on Wednesday, nearly two years after he succeeded the late Queen Elizabeth as head of state. Charles’ image will ...

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour challenger Keir Starmer went head-to-head on Tuesday over how to boost Britain’s economy, with the PM accusing the opposition party of wanting to ...

British sandwich and coffee chain Pret A Manger said it has given up on a plan to open stores in Israel, blaming travel restrictions on UK staff as a result ...

Royal Navy veteran Fred Ayton was told he was “making history” when he set off across the English Channel 80 years ago on the eve of D-Day, a momentous point in ...

A baby girl found earlier this year in a shopping bag in east London is the third child to have been abandoned by the same parents in similar circumstances over ...

– Two dozen D-Day veterans were the star passengers of a flotilla which set sail from Portsmouth, England, on Tuesday, bound for the beaches of Normandy where 80 years ago this week ...

Britain’s main opposition Labour Party is set for its biggest ever victory in next month’s general election, winning by a larger margin than in 1997 under former prime minister ...

Nigel Farage, the colourful politician who helped champion Britain’s departure from the European Union, said on Monday he would stand as a candidate in next month’s election and ...

The British ambassador to Mexico has been removed from his post after he pointed an assault rifle at a local embassy employee in a car, according to media reports and ...

 London’s Evening Standard newspaper, which has been read by the city’s inhabitants since it was founded almost 200 years ago, said it plans to switch to a weekly format ...

British retail sales bounced back in May after a slump in April that could have been caused by the timing of Easter and bad weather, while prices charged by shops ...

Britain’s first black woman lawmaker, Diane Abbott, said on Wednesday she had been barred from running as a Labour candidate in the July 4 election after she was suspended more ...

“Why did he do it? We were all told it would be the autumn and we were hoping by then we could turn things around. It is very perplexing,” said ...