Britain

Former Chancellor Rishi Sunak won the biggest backing from Conservative lawmakers on Wednesday in the first vote to choose who will succeed Boris Johnson as party leader and British prime ...

Conservative lawmakers will begin voting shortly to narrow the field of eight candidates hoping to succeed Boris Johnson as party leader and prime minister, in an increasingly fractious contest marked ...

Sir Mo Farah says he is “relieved” the Home Office has no plans to take action against him, after making the shock revelation that he was brought to the UK ...

Eight Conservatives will fight it out to succeed Boris Johnson as party leader and British prime minister after winning enough nominations from their colleagues to go through to the first ...

London’s Heathrow said it would cap departing passengers at 100,000 a day this summer to limit queues, baggage delays and cancellations, and it was asking airlines to stop selling tickets ...

Sir Mo Farah has revealed in a BBC documentary that he was brought into the UK illegally under the name of another child. The four-time Olympic champion said “the truth ...

Britain’s main opposition Labour Party will put forward a motion for a no confidence vote in Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government on Tuesday, with the vote expected to ...

Boris Johnson has announced that he will step down as British prime minister with the Conservative Party choosing a new leader who will be announced on Sept. 5, with 11 candidates so ...

British rail and transport workers have voted in favour of strike action in a dispute over pay on Monday as the threat of more disruption looms across transport network. Britain ...

Global rules would allow central bank digital currencies to operate smoothly cross-border and speed up wholesale payments, a think tank backed by the City of London Corporation said on Friday. ...

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss entered the race to replace Boris Johnson as prime minister on Monday, taking the number of candidates in an increasingly bitter and unpredictable contest to 11. ...

London’s Heathrow Airport apologised for unacceptable service in recent weeks, with long queues, delays for those with reduced mobility and baggage issues, as it struggled to cope with 40 years ...

The contest to replace British Prime Minister Boris Johnson gathered pace on Sunday as five more candidates declared their intention to run, with many pledging lower taxes and a clean ...

The Conservative Party committee overseeing the contest to select British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s replacement will look to whittle it down to two names by July 20, one of its ...

British former finance minister Rishi Sunak said on Friday he was running to replace Boris Johnson, three days after helping to launch the cascade of resignations that brought the prime ...

Russia’s ambassador to Britain said he was surprised London has not made more of an effort to secure the release of two British citizens sentenced to death for fighting ...

As many as a dozen candidates were on Friday eyeing up replacing Boris Johnson as British prime minister who is quitting after his Conservative Party turned on him, as opponents ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who said on Thursday he would resign, is due to throw a big wedding party to mark his marriage to wife Carrie at his official ...

Scandal-ridden Boris Johnson announced on Thursday he would quit as British prime minister after he dramatically lost the support of his ministers and most Conservative lawmakers, but said he would ...

Russian officials lined up to celebrate the downfall of Boris Johnson on Thursday, with a leading tycoon casting the British leader as a “stupid clown” who had finally got his ...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson was defiantly hanging onto power on Thursday despite the resignation of four top ministers and a seemingly unstoppable revolt by his own lawmakers, threatening to paralyse ...

Britain’s new finance minister Nadhim Zahawi told Boris Johnson to resign on Thursday, less than 48 hours after the prime minister promoted him to the job, saying the crisis engulfing ...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson defied pressure to quit on Wednesday from senior ministers and a mounting rebellion within his ruling Conservative Party, saying he will fight off any attempts to ...

The BBC said it had deleted an earlier tweet in which it reported Britain’s Northern Ireland minister Brandon Lewis had resigned because it was inaccurate. The Telegraph’s political ...