Britain

Labour MP lan Byrne has tabled an ‘early day motion’ in parliament condemning Everton’s 10-point deduction in the Premier League and called for an independent football regulator to be ...

Britain’s next government will almost certainly need to raise taxes and make unwelcome spending choices even if this week’s budget update from finance minister Jeremy Hunt presents a ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said his government would turn to cutting tax after a fall in inflation, speaking ahead of this week’s budget update when finance minister Jeremy ...

British finance minister Jeremy Hunt said on Sunday he would not implement tax cuts that would push up inflation, days before he announces a major budget update that is widely ...

Britain’s Ocado Group (OCDO.L) has secured its first deal outside grocery retail to provide its robotic warehouse technology to a site of drug distributor McKesson Corp’s (MCK....

British retail sales volumes fell unexpectedly in October as stretched consumers stayed at home, official data showed on Friday, in a new warning sign for the economy. Retail sales volumes ...

British house prices fell in annual terms in September for the first time since 2012 and rents rose sharply last month, official data showed earlier this week, underlining the weak state ...

Health authorities in the United Kingdom have approved a drug which aims to cure beta thalassaemia and sickle cell disease. The drug is called Casgevy and utilises a gene-editing tool ...

A British man wanted in the US on money laundering and wire fraud charges linked to the fake cryptocurrency OneCoin on Thursday won his battle against extradition, with London’s ...

British train drivers plan to hold a fresh round of strikes next month in a prolonged dispute over pay and working conditions, the ASLEF trade union said on Thursday. The ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Wednesday he would sign a new treaty with Rwanda to resurrect his plans to send asylum seekers to the East African country after ...

British inflation cooled by more than expected in October as household energy prices dropped from a year ago while stubbornly high services sector price growth also eased, offering some relief ...

Sacked British minister Suella Braverman launched a blistering attack on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Tuesday, savaging his record and accusing him of betraying both her and the British people. ...

British wages grew slightly less fast in the three months to September but remained close to their record pace, according to official data that will do little to ease the ...

A British man once accused of being a member of an Islamic State cell dubbed “The Beatles” because its members had English accents was jailed for eight years on Monday ...

Manchester United great Bobby Charlton was remembered both as one of English soccer’s finest players and a “humble” and “fantastic” man by the thousands of fans and some of ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak brought back former leader David Cameron as foreign minister on Monday in a reshuffle triggered by his firing of interior minister Suella Braverman after her ...

Indi Gregory, an eight-month-old critically ill baby girl from Britain who was taken off life support on the weekend, has died overnight, a lawyer for her family said on Monday. ...

By Tim Hepher English soldier Ken Hay was trapped behind German lines and captured while on night patrol in 1944, days after joining the Allied invasion of Normandy, a turning point ...

More than 300,000 pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched through central London on Saturday, with police arresting over 120 people as they sought to stop far-right counter-protesters from ambushing the main rally. Skirmishes broke out ...

A large pro-Palestinian march kicked off in London on Saturday following scuffles nearby between far-right protesters and police, who launched a major operation to avert clashes between the two rival ...

Prince Harry, singer Elton John and five other high-profile British figures can have their lawsuit against the publisher of the Daily Mail newspaper alleging widespread unlawful behaviour heard at trial, ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was under growing pressure on Friday to sack one of his most senior ministers, Suella Braverman, after she published an inflammatory article attacking the police’...

Britain’s sluggish economy failed to grow in the July-to-September period but at least managed to avoid the start of a recession, figures from the Office for National Statistics showed ...