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Britain’s Labour Party government is quietly separating parts of its diplomacy, along with trade and security policies, from the Trump administration.
Net migration dropped by 50 percent in 2024, data showed Thursday. So why was the prime minister warning of an “island of strangers” earlier this month?
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain is considering mandating the use of chemical castration for sex offenders under an overhaul of the justice system aimed at freeing up more space in its overcrowded prisons.
Skills gaps won’t be plugged overnight. The Construction Industry Training Board estimates it will need more than 250,000 new workers by 2028 to build homes, fix the grid or construct roads and bridges. “We simply do not have enough UK workers to achieve that,” says Richard Beresford, chief executive of the National Federation of Builders.
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With a war in Ukraine and the U.S. rethinking alliances, Britain and the European Union may need each other more than they thought. Here's what happened at Monday's summit — and what didn't.
A certain white-knuckle angst accompanied Britain’s early-morning inflation releases in 2022 and 2023, when prices were rising at a pace not seen in decades. Lately, the mood has been calmer. But new figures for April, published on May 21st, brought unwelcome flashbacks to the economists, traders and mandarins watching the data.
Britain's Francesca Jones is one win away from the French Open main draw but Dan Evans loses in the second round of qualifying in Paris.
Britain became the first country to get a reduction in U.S. tariffs when it announced a limited deal with Trump to lower levies on cars and steel, but it retained the baseline 10% U.S. tariff, despite having balanced trade with the United States.
A survey by consumer group Which? has ranked 90 of the country's motorway service stations, from those with a farm shop and lake to others branded 'dark and gloomy'