Gilts breathe out as chancellor manages to plot a way to safer waters without income tax hike.

Bank lobbying over rumors Britain’s finance minister could hike their taxes in the budget was intense and ultimately successful.

Britain will hit a gas crisis if a long cold spell coincides with a loss of key infrastructure, advisers say.

Crucial Office for Budget Responsibility analysis on Rachel Reeves’ plans available online before the chancellor’s budget statement.

A mansion tax, gambling tax, milkshake tax and scrapping the two-child benefit cap – today we finally get all the details of the most trailed budget in …

Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday announced a new joint task-force — with U.S. buy-in — aiming at “finalized security guarantees” if a peace deal lands.

The threshold at which the soft drinks levy is imposed will also be lowered.

Nearly half of those polled by More in Common think the U.S. president is hindering peace, compared to 21 percent who think he is providing a boost.

The Reform UK leader said he’d never made “hurtful or insulting” comments, but had “probably” misspoken as a child.

The Army secretary is speaking to Russian officials on Tuesday without Secretary of State Marco Rubio or other U.S. negotiators.

The U.K. government is under pressure from its own MPs as it prepares — finally — to decide the future of oil and gas.

Six months after a major inquiry into how the U.K. would meet geopolitical threats, many in the industry complain they haven’t received the certainty they need about where the British government plans to invest. 

Despite celebrating “good progress” in talks in Geneva, European countries are still too weak or too timid to save Ukraine, even with a loan from frozen Russian assets.

A big-ticket tax hike has been shelved — but allies of U.K. Chancellor Rachel Reeves insist Wednesday’s fiscal update will still be a major reset.

Britain’s tax system is being contorted to satisfy arbitrary five-year windows built on forecasts nobody can honestly pretend to believe.

As conflict rages around the world, the plight of women has been seen as peripheral and progress has stalled — but we must not look away, Britain’s foreign secretary writes.

With a difficult budget looming, chancellor Rachel Reeves has turned her gaze overseas in her elusive search for economic growth.

Jordan Bardella, Nigel Farage and Alice Weidel have their eyes on power and are tightening up their acts — and their strategies — to get there. 

The Europeans took a stand but struggled to build a coalition to push for more climate action at this year’s U.N. summit.

Delegates from nearly 200 nations — not including the U.S. — showed they could make some progress. But they deferred the hardest decisions.

Top British and European officials will join high-level talks between the U.S. and Ukraine starting Sunday, after Kyiv’s allies voiced concern at Trump’s proposed deal. 

Washington’s proposal would confirm Ukraine’s sovereignty but would limit its armed forces, hand a significant amount of territory to Russia and bar Kyiv from joining NATO.

Diplomats and officials react with outrage to new details of the U.S. peace plan, warning it could wreck their efforts to help Ukraine survive the war.

The blaze closed an area of the venue that hosted pavilions set up by countries to showcase their climate actions. China’s knicknacks were especially popular.