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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s bid to secure a new deal with the EU has gone ‘down to the wire’ with talks continuing

Talks on a UK-EU deal are in their ‘final hours’ ahead of a major summit with the bloc, the minister in charge of

Finance chiefs have urged Rachel Reeves not to reform cash individual savings accounts amid reports the UK chancellor plans

Keir Starmer has signalled that a youth mobility scheme would not cross Labour’s red line on freedom of movement with the EU

The UK prime minister said he and European allies spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump on Friday

UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy met with his Pakistani counterpart in Islamabad on Friday, a week after the country’s most

The EU and Britain look will haggle to the wire over fishing rights and food checks as they seek a deal on closer defence

[Alliance News] - Ministers in the UK have been urged by a cross-party parliamentary group to delay reforms to farming

The UK will begin talks with other countries on ‘return hubs’ for failed asylum seekers as the government seeks to crack down

Ireland’s goods trade surplus widened dramatically in March, boosted by exports to the US ahead of the tariff announcements

UK business investment jumped in the first three months of 2025, recovering strongly from a decline at the end of last year

UK industrial production was weaker than expected in March, numbers on Thursday showed, while overall growth in the first

The UK economy grew at a faster pace than anticipated in the first quarter of 2025, while the goods and services trade

Prime Minister Keir Starmer is treading a fine line on UK-EU relations as hard-right populists make gains at a time when

The UK could potentially take more US wood pellets to burn for electricity amid ongoing trade talks, Donald Trump’s

The UK cannot afford to adopt an ‘ostrich strategy’ as the US withdraws from guaranteeing European security, the chair of a

Thousands more civil servants are set to be moved out of London as the UK government seeks to cut costs and ‘radically reform

China has criticised the UK-US trade deal in a potential blow to the government’s bid to revive relations with the country.

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Holidaymakers are trimming their budgets this summer and looking for ways to make their money stretch further amid economic

US Agricultural Secretary Brooke Rollins said she would like to see the UK and US more aligned on food standards regulations

The King is to host French President Emmanuel Macron on a state visit to the UK from July 8-10, Buckingham Palace has

A commitment by pension funds to invest tens of billions in British infrastructure projects and businesses has been welcomed

The UK unemployment rate increased slightly in the three months to March while pay growth declined, numbers on Tuesday showed

New home registrations in the UK jumped by more than a third in the first quarter of 2025 compared with the same period a

Donald Trump is expected to arrive in the UK as his plane is scheduled to refuel at a US airbase.

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