The Princess of Wales has issued a personal apology after a family photograph issued by Kensington Palace on Sunday to mark Mother’s Day turned out to have been manipulated. In a statement posted on X, the princess, formerly Kate Middleton, said, “Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing. I wanted to express […]

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pulled a political rabbit out of the hat when he appointed one of his predecessors, David Cameron, as the new foreign secretary as part of a dramatic cabinet reshuffle. Mr. Cameron—who will be given a peerage so he can sit as Lord Cameron in the House of Lords—replaces James Cleverly, who […]

UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman has been sacked by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak after she criticised the police’s handling of recent pro-Palestinian protests in a newspaper article which Downing Street had not authorised. She has been replaced by James Cleverly, the former foreign secretary, whose old job has been given to former Prime Minister David […]

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has said the Russian mercenary group Wagner is to be proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the British government. A draft order is being laid before Parliament on Wednesday but Mr. Shapps, who only took over the job from Ben Wallace last week, defended the delay in banning Wagner, whose founder […]

A nurse who worked on a special unit for premature babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital in the north of England has been convicted of the murder of seven infants and the attempted murder of another six. Lucy Letby, 33, had denied any involvement in the deaths but the trial at Manchester Crown Court […]

Hollywood star Kevin Spacey has been acquitted of a series of sex offences against young men while he was working as the artistic director of the Old Vic theatre in London between 2004 and 2015. After 12 hours and 26 minutes the jury at Southwark Crown Court found Mr. Spacey, 63, not guilty of three […]

Nicola Sturgeon has announced she is to resign as First Minister of Scotland, saying: “My decision comes from a place of duty and of love, tough love perhaps, but nevertheless love [of] my party and my country.” Her decision to step down comes a month after the UK Parliament blocked radical gender reforms which had been […]

Four people are critically ill in hospital after being crushed when thousands of ticketless fans tried to force their way into a concert by a Nigerian singer at the O2 Academy in Brixton in south London on Thursday night. Afrobeats singer Asake had been on stage for 10 minutes when he was informed of the […]

Labour has retained the City of Chester constituency by-election with a 13.76 percent swing against the ruling Conservatives in the first electoral test of new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Samantha Dixon, the leader of Cheshire West and Chester Council, won 17,309 votes, with the Conservative candidate Liz Wardlaw trailing way behind with 6,335 votes. The […]

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, has warned Britain will need to “face into the storm” in the next year as it faces high energy prices, inflation, and recession. Unveiling his autumn budget, in which he raised taxes and announced £55 billion of funding cuts, Hunt told the House of Commons: “There may be […]

Boris Johnson could make a bid to resume the role of prime minister as the Conservative Party faces its second leadership contest this year, following the resignation of Liz Truss on Thursday. He could potentially face former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, and ex-trade minister Penny Mordaunt in a vote by MPs on Monday. Johnson […]

Prime Minister Liz Truss has scrapped a key part of the mini-budget Kwasi Kwarteng produced last month—reversing the cut to corporation tax—and has defended her decision to replace him as Chancellor of the Exchequer with Jeremy Hunt. She said she had decided corporation tax would go up from 19 percent to 25 percent next year—as originally […]

Prime Minister Liz Truss has fired the Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng and replaced him with Jeremy Hunt after markets reacted negatively to what they perceived as un-costed tax cut plans. Kwarteng was ordered to fly home overnight from International Monetary Fund talks in Washington and was relieved of his duties by Truss, who […]

Queen Elizabeth II has died on Thursday at the age of 96. She was the longest-serving monarch in British history, with a reign of 70 years and 214 days. She was born, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, on Apr. 21, 1926. Her father was then known as Albert, Duke of York. At the age of 10 […]

The UK’s Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is to be the next prime minister after she won the Conservative leadership contest, defeating former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak by a margin of more than 20,000 votes. She will replace current Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who resigned on July 7 after more than 50 government ministers resigned, saying […]

The UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nadhim Zahawi, has praised Mo Farah as a “truly inspirational” role model after the four-time Olympic champion revealed his true identity and that he was actually trafficked into Britain under a fake name at the age of nine. The 39-year-old won gold in the 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres […]

Boris Johnson has finally announced he is stepping down as prime minister after the resignation of more than 50 government ministers, including a Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, whose successor Nadhim Zahawi, then called for his boss to “do the right thing and go.” Johnson, standing at a podium in Downing Street with his […]

The British Home Secretary Priti Patel has signed an extradition order, sending WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange back to the United States where he is wanted for publishing classified documents. WikiLeaks said Friday was a “dark day” for press freedom and British democracy. Assange, 50, is wanted in the United States for publishing thousands of diplomatic […]

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has survived a vote of confidence within the ruling Conservative Party, with 211 MPs backing him and 148 wanting him to step down. If more than half of the party MPs had voted against him, he would have been forced to step down as party leader, and thus to also […]