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Germany’s Europe Minister Michael Roth urged Britain on Tuesday to drop plans for a bill that would break the country’s obligations to the European Union under its withdrawal treaty as time was running out to clinch an EU-Britain trade…

British schools should remain open, and workplaces which need their staff on the premises should do so in a COVID-secure way, senior cabinet minister Michael Gove said on Tuesday ahead of an address by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on new…

Chris Whitty, the government’s chief medical officer, and Patrick Vallance, its chief scientific adviser, cautioned that if left unrestricted the epidemic would reach 50,000 new cases per day by mid October in the United Kingdom. “If…

Britain has taken robust action to crack down on dirty money in recent years, its government said on Monday in response to reports that HSBC, Barclays and other banks moved large sums of allegedly illicit funds despite red flags about the…

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is “fighting fit” and “full of beans” after having been hospitalised with COVID-19 earlier this year, health minister Matt Hancock said on Monday.

The United Kingdom reported 4,422 new daily cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, 100 more new cases than on Friday and the highest daily total since May 8.

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that it was inevitable that the country was seeing a second wave of coronavirus and that while he did not want a second national lockdown, everything was being kept under review. “We are going to…

The United Kingdom recorded 4,322 new positive cases of COVID-19 on Friday, an increase of nearly a thousand on Thursday’s tally and the highest since May 8, according to official statistics.

Britain’s health minister on Friday disputed questioning from a reporter who cast the coronavirus testing system as a barely functioning chaotic shambles, instead praising the head of the system for extraordinary work and saying it was not…

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden warned the United Kingdom that it must honour the Northern Irish peace deal as it extracts itself from the European Union or there would be no U.S. trade deal. “We can’t allow the Good…