Britain

Liz Truss is expected to be named leader of the governing Conservative Party and Britain’s next prime minister on Monday, poised to take power at a time when the ...

Sterling plumbed a fresh post-pandemic low on Monday as Russia kept one of its main gas supply routes to Europe shut, adding to recession fears on the day that Britain ...

Britain’s competition regulator finally cleared NortonLifeLock’s (NLOK.O) acquisition of British rival Avast (AVST.L)on Friday, saying the security software market would remain competitive after the $8.6 billion ...

As a child, outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson reportedly said he wanted to be ‘King of the World’. He ended up in a somewhat humbler role, was rejected by ...

People should not write off Boris Johnson, a former close aide to the leader said on Sunday, suggesting the outgoing British prime minister could make a return to high office ...

British foreign minister Liz Truss said on Sunday she would set out immediate action in her first week in power to tackle rising energy bills and increase energy supplies if ...

Britain’s prime minister in waiting Liz Truss models herself on Margaret Thatcher, judging by her photo ops echoing famous images of the country’s first female premier. If Truss ...

The British government is set to release data showing around 1.1 billion pounds of small business loans made under a Covid-19 emergency lending scheme has already been classified as suspected fraud, ...

London police arrested six individuals after the Extinction Rebellion environmental group staged a protest inside Britain’s parliament on Friday, while it was not in session, gluing themselves around the ...

British rail workers are set to stage a fresh round of strikes on September 15 and 17 in a dispute over pay, jobs and conditions, the RMT union said on Thursday, joining ...

Like thousands of pubs across Britain, the Red Lion and Sun fears financial ruin this winter as its energy costs surge, just as business was starting to recover from the ...

Liz Truss, the frontrunner to replace Boris Johnson as Britain’s prime minister, said she would act immediately to help people cope with surging energy prices that threaten to leave ...

UK’s FTSE 100 logged its worst daily performance in seven weeks on Wednesday as warnings of even higher inflation in the coming months raised fears of a deep recession in ...

Queen Elizabeth will break with tradition and appoint Britain’s new prime minister at her Balmoral Castle residence in Scotland, rather than at Buckingham Palace in London, due to mobility ...

Ryan Giggs is facing a possible retrial after a jury failed to reach verdicts in his domestic violence trial. The former Manchester United winger had been on trial for four ...

Mourners marked the 25th anniversary of Princess Diana’s death in Paris on Wednesday, laying flowers and leaving messages on the bridge above the underpass where she was killed in ...

A man stabbed to death at the Notting Hill Carnival on Monday was Takayo Nembhard, a rapper from Bristol, his manager said. Nembhard, also known by his rap name TKorStretch, ...

British government bonds are on course for their biggest monthly fall since 1994, as surging energy prices create a perfect storm of higher inflation, tighter monetary policy and the prospect of ...

British leadership frontrunner Liz Truss is considering cutting value-added tax (VAT) by 5% across the board to help tackle the cost-of-living crisis if she succeeds Boris Johnson as prime minister next ...

Staff at London’s Stansted have begun voting on whether to take strike action in a dispute over pay, the Unite Union said, threatening disruption at one of Britain’s ...

The British government’s options to support people facing sky-rocketing energy bills include handing loans to energy suppliers that could cut bills by up to 500 pounds ($587) a year, the Daily ...

Nestled in a railway arch in Brixton, south London, a large studio hosts a colourful array of elaborate costumes and flamboyant feathers, all designed to bring to life a Mas ...

More than 115,000 workers at Britain’s Royal Mail RMG.L began the first of four days of strike action on Friday in a pay dispute which the postal group said ...

British energy bills will jump 80% to an average of 3,549 pounds ($4,188) a year from October, regulator Ofgem said on Friday, calling it a “crisis” that needed to be tackled by urgent ...