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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has indicated he wants to work more closely with Europe on defence, as trade talks between the

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has suggested former deputy prime minister Angela Rayner has a ‘future role to play’ in

UK house price growth rose more than expected in January, according to a report published on Monday.

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Momentum for an Irish unity referendum ‘doesn’t exist’ in Northern Ireland, Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly has

Britain needs to be better at talking itself up, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said as he returned from leading a trade

The UK and Japan agreed to strengthen defence and economic ties, visiting Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Saturday, after

Wine and spirits bosses have warned that firms ‘have no choice but to increase prices’ to stay afloat as an increase to UK

Keir Starmer has wrapped up his trip to China hailing billions of pounds in trade agreements and investment in the UK by

Keir Starmer has brushed off comments by Donald Trump warning it was ‘dangerous’ for the UK to do business with China, saying

Chinese sanctions against British MPs and peers have been lifted following Keir Starmer’s talks with Xi Jinping – but the

Ireland’s annual harmonised consumer price index inflation rate decelerated in January, data published by the Central

UK mortgage approvals declined in December, data published by the Bank of England showed Friday.

Mortgage approvals fell to 61

US President Donald Trump warned it would be ‘dangerous’ for the UK to do business with China, as Keir Starmer moves to

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has secured a deal on visa-free travel to China for UK citizens during his visit to Beijing

Ireland’s annual economic growth continued to decelerate as an on-quarter decline sped up in the fourth quarter of 2025

Pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca PLC on Thursday unveiled plans to invest $15 billion in China through to 2030, in an

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he made ‘good progress’ on talks on tariffs and visa-free travel to China in his meeting

Retail sales in Ireland declined both annually and monthly in December, provisional data published by the Central Statistics

Keir Starmer has arrived in China on the first visit by a British Prime Minister in eight years.

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Pubs and music venues will get 15% off their business rates bills from April as part of a major support package, the Treasury

Keir Starmer said his mission to Beijing would bring benefits for people in the UK as he prepared to begin the first prime

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will arrive in Beijing on Wednesday as he seeks to build bridges with China after years

Ground rents will be capped at £250 a year for leaseholders in England and Wales as part of sweeping changes announced by the

The UK Treasury is set to announce a support package for the pub sector worth about £100 million per year, the Financial

Keir Starmer is confident he can pursue trade deals with China without upsetting US President Donald Trump.

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Keir Starmer will travel to China on Tuesday for the first prime ministerial visit to the country in eight years, Downing

Multiple US senators on Saturday said they would vote against upcoming government spending bills after federal agents killed

Hundreds of British hospitality businesses shut their doors for good in the final months of 2025, as they warned over further

The UK and its European allies will sign a new clean energy pact to bring an ‘unprecedented fleet’ of offshore wind projects

The growth in UK’s service and manufacturing sectors accelerated in January, flash data published by S&P Global showed Friday

UK retail sales unexpectedly rose in December, but fell in the final quarter of the year, numbers on Friday showed.

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Keir Starmer said he will discuss how to ‘take the vital steps’ towards strengthened security in the Arctic with Denmark’s

Ireland’s decline in producer prices sped up in December, data published by the Central Statistics Office showed Thursday.

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UK public sector net borrowing rose in December, the Office for National Statistics reported on Thursday.

Net borrowing, the

Britain’s upper house of parliament voted Wednesday in favour of banning under?16s from using social media, raising pressure

US president Donald Trump has hit out at the UK’s green energy policies and claimed mass migration had left Europe

Rachel Reeves has announced £1.5 billion of private investment in Britain as she attends a Davos conference overshadowed by

Keir Starmer accused Donald Trump of changing his stance on the UK’s Chagos Islands deal with ‘the express purpose of putting

Annual house price growth in the UK lifted to 2.5% in November, according to official figures.

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The UK will not be pushed around by Donald Trump’s tariff threats, Chancellor Rachel Reeves said as she defended Keir Starmer

The UK and China will seek to re-establish a business dialogue of top executives during UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s

UK inflation unexpectedly rose more than expected in December, according to figures published on Wednesday by the Office for

Re-joining the EU customs union would mean losing the benefit of new trade deals and is not on the cards, the UK chancellor

The number of universal credit (UC) claimants in Britain jumped by more than a million in 2025 in the biggest annual increase

The number of people becoming financially insolvent across England and Wales jumped to a 15-year high last year, according to

The governor of the Bank of England has said the central bank has ‘to be very alert’ to the potential impact from heightened

The speaker of the US House of Representatives has sought to assure MPs and peers that the US and UK will ‘work through our

Donald Trump has suggested Britain’s decision to cede the Chagos Islands to Mauritius is among the reasons he wants to take

The UK unemployment rate stayed the same in the three months to November, numbers on Tuesday showed, while regular earnings

Keir Starmer will seek to steady the ship amid a tumultuous rift between Donald Trump and European countries over Greenland