Britain

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. ...

Nigel Farage’s brand of politics has found a home in the English seaside town of Clacton-on-Sea, where voters described the right-wing party leader as a straight talker who, unlike ...

Asking prices for British homes coming to the market were flat this month, adding to signs of a recent cooling off in the housing market upswing, a survey from property ...

Standard Chartered on Monday lost a bid to cut from a London lawsuit allegations that it broke US sanctions against Iran in a more widespread way than it has previously ...

British political parties are continuing to attempt to win over British citizens abroad ahead of the country’s general election, which will take place on July 4. Liberal Democrat leader Sir ...

Nigel Farage, whose entry into the election has damaged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s faint hopes of victory, set out his policy plans on Monday, describing them as the first ...

Three British opinion polls released late on Saturday presented a grim picture for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party, and one pollster warned that the party faced “electoral extinction” ...

Kate, Britain’s Princess of Wales, waved to crowds and smiled broadly from the balcony of Buckingham Palace after watching a military parade on Saturday, making her first public appearance ...

Private banks and advisers to Britain’s super-rich say some clients may quit the country if Labour wins next month’s general election and pushes ahead with plans to abolish ...

Britain’s next government will find it near-impossible to stop tax levels approaching an all-time high, despite an election campaign in which both major parties have promised not to increase ...

British pub group Fuller, Smith & Turner (FSTA.L), on Thursday, posted higher sales for the first 10 weeks of the new fiscal year, aided by strong demand and lower costs, ...

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 ...