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CNN  —  Keir Starmer, Britain’s new prime minister, pitched himself as an antidote to “the snake oil charm of…

Three millenniums ago, a small, prosperous farming community briefly flourished in the freshwater marshes of eastern England. The inhabitants lived in a clutch of thatched roundhouses built on wooden stilts above a channel of the River…

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CNN  —  Barely a day goes by without railways making the headlines in Britain.…

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HONG KONG (Reuters) – A top financial official from Hong Kong is set to visit Britain in April in the first ministerial-level visit by an official of the Chinese-ruled territory in more than three years, the government said on…

Comment on this storyCommentLONDON — A long-running dispute over pay and working conditions came to a head on Wednesday, with hundreds of thousands of British workers taking part in what organizers said was the biggest day of industrial…

I did not get where I am today making forecasts about how the economy will perform in a new year. But I do feel it is my duty to emphasise the tangle into which this benighted government has got itself and us, and the connection between…

Britain says high standards will be maintainedUK flags reviews in financial-crisis era reformsLondon faces new competition from EU centresConsultation on digital pound plannedLONDON, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Britain set out a raft of measures…

When recently asked on the Today programme to cite chapter and verse on the subject of Brexit “opportunities” Michael Gove, the secretary of state for all seasons, was hopelessly out of his depth.However, Gove missed a trick. What he…