Britain

British Chancellor Rachel Reeves paved the way for broad tax rises to avoid a return to “austerity” on Tuesday, framing her second annual budget as one of “hard choices” to ...

Nigel Farage, leader of Britain’s populist Reform UK, watered down some of his pledges on Monday, saying his party could not immediately implement substantial tax cuts if it won ...

A British man accused of carrying out a mass stabbing on board a train on Saturday was charged on Monday with 11 counts of attempted murder, including over a separate incident ...

British transport minister Heidi Alexander said there were no injuries reported after a train bound for London from Glasgow derailed in northern England on Monday. “A major incident has been ...

A 32-year-old British man was the sole suspect accused of a mass stabbing on a train in England, after another man arrested in the case was released on Sunday with ...

Britain’s financial markets watchdog on Tuesday confirmed that it will stop publishing the identity of stock market short sellers, as it set out details of a revised framework aimed ...

British retailers cut their prices in October, led by the biggest drop for food in almost five years, industry figures showed, offering a bit of relief to households before Halloween ...

British manufacturers are investing the least in new equipment relative to their sales since 2017, according to a report from trade body Make UK, which urged the government to streamline tax ...

Britain’s governing Labour Party on Saturday said Lucy Powell had won a vote of members to become the party’s deputy leader, a victory for a candidate whom Prime ...

An Ethiopian asylum seeker who sexually assaulted a teenage girl and another woman in Britain, sparking summer-long angry protests outside the hotel where he was living, has been accidentally released ...

Britain on Friday urged fellow allies of Ukraine to reach a deal to use frozen Russian assets to strengthen its hand for any future peace talks, as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy ...

A Belfast court on Thursday found a British soldier not guilty of murder in the only trial of a member of the British armed forces over the 1972 ‘Bloody Sunday’ killings ...

Britain’s King Charles and Pope Leo prayed together in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel on Thursday, in the first joint worship including an English monarch and a Catholic pontiff ...

One of the first migrants sent back to France under the British government’s flagship “one in, one out” deal has returned to Britain on a small boat, a minister ...

The median full-time salary in Britain rose to 39,039 pounds before tax ($52,394) this year, up 4.3 per cent from a year earlier, annual official figures showed on Thursday. The annual increase was ...

British finance minister Rachel Reeves said Brexit along with spending cuts by previous governments had weighed more heavily on the economy than originally thought as she readies a budget likely ...

British inflation unexpectedly held steady in September, raising the prospect of a Bank of England interest rate cut this year and offering some relief to finance minister Rachel Reeves ahead ...

Britain’s borrowing in the first half of the financial year was the highest on record except during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, keeping up the pressure on finance ...

Asking prices for British homes barely rose in what is usually a busy autumn sales period, according to a survey published on Monday that added to signs of uncertainty in ...

Prince Andrew giving up his royal titles was the “right course of action,” a senior British government minister said on Monday, a day after police said they were examining allegations ...

The British government launched on Monday a club of 20 of the country’s largest pension funds to try to drum up coordinated backing for local infrastructure, as major pension funds ...

Prince Andrew said on Friday he would give up using his title of Duke of York following years of criticism about his behaviour and connections to the late U.S. ...

Three British right-wing extremists were jailed for a total of 29 years on Friday after they were convicted of planning to carry out an attack at mosques or synagogues as part ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said fans of Israeli side Maccabi Tel Aviv should not be barred from a soccer match in Birmingham next month, as tensions over antisemitism ...