Britain’s bond market suffered its biggest daily fall in decades on Friday and is expected to slump further, as investors choked on the prospect of hundreds of billions of ...
British Prime Minister Liz Truss is set to launch a major review of the country’s visa system in a move to tackle acute labour shortages in key industries, the ...
Britain’s main opposition party leader Keir Starmer said on Sunday he would reintroduce the top rate of income tax to 45% after the government abolished the rate in a mini-budget.
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Britain’s deputy finance minister on Saturday played down a historic collapse in the pound and government bonds in response to the country’s new economic growth plan, which sent ...
British government bond yields surged by the most in a day in over three decades on Friday, the pound slid to a fresh 37-year trough against the dollar and stocks ...
Low-income Britons will see few benefits from the historic tax cuts announced by the country’s new finance minister on Friday, union leaders and anti-poverty campaigners said, warning that the ...
Britain’s main opposition Labour Party criticised the Conservative government’s economic plans on Friday, describing the new prime minister and finance minister as “two desperate gamblers in a casino” ...
Hilary Mantel, the best-selling British author of the award-winning “Wolf Hall” Tudor trilogy, died peacefully on Thursday at the age of 70, her publisher said on Friday.
“Wolf Hall”, published in 2009, ...
Britain’s new finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng unleashed historic tax cuts and huge increases in borrowing on Friday in an economic agenda that floored financial markets, with sterling and British ...
Britain wants to reach an agreement with the European Union to solve post-Brexit trade to Northern Ireland issues quickly, foreign minister James Cleverly said on Thursday, suggesting a softer approach ...
A total of 2,198 football-related arrests were made in the 2021-22 season in England and Wales, the highest number since the 2013-14 season, a report by the Home Office said on ...
The Bank of England raised its key interest rate to 2.25% from 1.75% on Thursday and said it would continue to “respond forcefully, as necessary” to inflation, despite the economy probably already ...
Britain’s communications regulator said it would investigate the position of cloud “hyperscalers” Amazon, Microsoft and Google, which together account for around 81 per cent of revenue in the market, to ...
The death of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth has collectors scrambling to secure rare coins and bills bearing her likeness, even as her portrait is set to remain in circulation for ...
U.S. President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Liz Truss met in person for the first time on Wednesday and said they want to ensure the 1998 Good Friday Agreement ...
Some 57% of British consumers have been severely or moderately affected by the cost of living crisis so far, and in three months that figure is expected to rise to 76%, based ...
A peak of 28 million Britons watched Queen Elizabeth’s funeral on their screens at home, the BBC reported on Tuesday, making it one of the most-watched events in years.
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Britain said on Wednesday it would cap the wholesale cost of electricity and gas for businesses at less than half the market rate from next month, following a similar scheme ...
The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday against the parents of missing British toddler Madeleine McCann, saying that Portugal had given them a fair hearing in their libel ...
British Prime Minister Liz Truss will pledge at a UN summit to meet or exceed the 2.3 billion pounds ($2.6 billion) of military aid spent on Ukraine in 2022 in the next year, ...
Some 250,000 mourners filed past Queen Elizabeth’s coffin at Westminster Hall in London during her lying-in-state, Britain’s culture minister Michelle Donelan said on Tuesday.
“It’s approximately around the 250,000 ...
British politics returns to centre stage on Tuesday after the funeral of Queen Elizabeth, with Prime Minister Liz Truss signalling her priorities by flying to her first major summit and ...
Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority said on Friday cryptocurrency exchange FTX may be offering financial services or products in the UK without its authorisation.
FTX is one of the world’...
Queen Elizabeth’s coffin was lowered into a vault at Windsor Castle, her final resting place, on Monday after a day of inimitable pageantry that drew world leaders to her ...