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British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will officially be appointed prime minister by Queen Elizabeth later Tuesday after a short ceremony at the monarch's Balmoral estate in Scotland. Shortly before Truss becomes prime minister at lunchtime,…

Frog, a British manufacturer of children's bikes, enjoyed continuous sales growth until the pandemic, expanding into 50 international markets since it was founded in 2013. This year, however, its energy costs have leaped 333 percent.…

Middle-income households will also need support with their energy bills this winter, Chancellor of the Exchequer Nadhim Zahawi said, as Britons face domestic power and gas bills this winter that will be almost triple last year's level. The…

Britain's criminal trial lawyers voted overwhelmingly in favour of indefinite strike action in the latest salvo with the government over funding and fees. The Criminal Bar Association (CBA), which represents thousands of barristers in…

Rishi Sunak has told Liz Truss, his rival and the front-runner in the race to be the next UK prime minister, she can't deliver both support for struggling British households this winter and stick to her flagship policy of tax cuts. The way…

A second day of strike action is under way at the UK's busiest container port after workers walked out on Sunday in a pay dispute. The union Unite said about 1,900 of its members were taking action, expected to last eight…

Rishi Sunak insisted he is not out of the Conservative leadership contest after his campaign suffered another blow when a video emerged of him boasting about deliberately moving funding away from deprived urban areas of the UK while he was…

One of Britain’s fastest growing labor unions announced on Saturday a series of planned strikes on the rail network and London Tube next week. The action is expected to become the biggest walkout of its kind in 30 years. Following weeks…

Johnson needed a simple majority, 180 votes or more, to continue in office. 211 Tory MPs voted in favor of the prime minister, compared to a huge 148 MPs who voted against his leadership. The majority of just 63 MPs means more than 40…