Britain

The head of Britain’s fiscal watchdog resigned on Monday after the agency last week inadvertently released key details of the government’s annual tax and spending budget before finance ...

A Bangladesh court sentenced British lawmaker and former minister Tulip Siddiq in absentia to two years in jail on Monday in a corruption case involving the alleged illegal allocation of ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday he was proud of last week’s budget, defending not only what he described as the “fair choices” in it but also ...

A reindeer named Buddy sparked a huge search operation in northern England involving police, the coastguard and Royal Marines after he went on the run from a nearby Christmas event. ...

British finance minister Rachel Reeves on Sunday denied she misled the public over official forecasts ahead of this month’s budget, saying she had been honest about the need to ...

Britain said on Friday it would temporarily stop imports of pork meat from parts of Spain after the country confirmed its first cases of African swine fever in just over ...

Britain said on Friday that talks to join the European Union’s defence fund SAFE had broken down, in a major setback to a much-vaunted post-Brexit reset of relations aimed ...

Long-term net migration to Britain fell by more than two-thirds in the year to June, official data showed on Thursday, extending a downward trend fuelled by tougher government policies to ...

A British man who injured more than 130 people by ploughing his car into a crowd of Liverpool football fans during May’s Premier League victory parade pleaded guilty on Wednesday ...

British Chancellor British finance minister Rachel Reevesannounced a big tax-raising budget on Wednesday that will take more money from workers, people saving for a pension and from investors to give ...

 British finance minister Rachel Reeves is likely to announce tens of billions of pounds of new tax increases on Wednesday in a budget that puts her credibility on the line ...

Nigel Farage, the leader of Britain’s anti-immigration Reform UK party, has said he has “never directly racially abused anybody”, after a report alleging he made antisemitic remarks at school. ...

British house prices in September were 2.6 per cent higher than a year earlier, the smallest annual rise since May and down from an upwardly revised increase of 3.1 per cent in ...

Daily Mail owner DMGT said on Saturday it had struck a 500 million pound ($650 million) deal to buy rival newspaper The Telegraph in a tie-up that would create one of the ...

An independent director on the BBC’s board, Shumeet Banerji, has quit on Friday in the wake of what the public broadcaster said was an incorrect edit of a speech ...

Two teenagers pleaded not guilty on Friday to hacking charges over a 2024 cyberattack on London’s public transport body, with one of them also denying charges related to two health ...

British manufacturers reported the sharpest fall in output since August 2020 during the three months to the end of November, due to uncertainty ahead of next week’s annual budget, and ...

Britain plans to double the time most foreign workers must wait for settled status to 10 years, with exceptions for doctors and nurses, the government said on Thursday, adding that some ...

British consumers’ optimism about the economy and their own finances recorded its sharpest fall this month since April, when many household bills increased and US President Donald Trump announced wide-ranging ...

British inflation slowed last month for the first time since May, official figures showed on Wednesday, offering some relief to the government before next week’s annual budget and boosting ...

British Defence Secretary John Healey said on Wednesday that “military options” are ready should the Russian spy ship Yantar become a threat, after the vessel directed lasers at British pilots ...

Net immigration to Britain peaked in 2023 at a higher level than previously thought, and a far greater number of Britons left the country in subsequent years, revised official data showed ...

Britain will ban the resale of tickets for music concerts, shows and sporting events at inflated prices, tackling the scourge of ticket touts who use technology to snap up tickets ...

Britain’s BBC is “determined to fight” any legal action filed by U.S President Donald Trump, saying on Monday there was no basis for a defamation case over its ...