Reform UK has announced 20 councillors have joined the party in England, including defectors from the Conservatives and the Green Party. There are 14 former Conservatives, five independents and one Green among the new batch of Reform UK councillors, who represent areas such as Stoke-on-Trent, Thanet and Bolsover.

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The new head of Britain’s foreign intelligence service MI6 has warned the nation in her first public speech that the UK is “now operating in a space between peace and war” and “the front line is everywhere,” amid growing tensions with Russia.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to reduce tariffs on some British goods entering the US. It is the first part of a deal which the UK hopes will extend to other products sold to the States. Trump's blanket 10% tariff on imports from ...

Michael Collyer receives funding from Economic and Social Research Council (grant number ES/T004509/1). He is chair of Sanctuary on Sea, Brighton's City of Sanctuary group. A third of the UK’s international aid budget was spent supporting refugees in the ...

UK employers cut back their hiring again in December, according to a closely watched survey that is likely to add to the Bank of England’s concerns about a weakening jobs market.

Existing law could be used to approve the use of military force to stop sanction-busting ships operated by Russia and Iran.

The United Kingdom’s online watchdog launched a formal investigation Monday into Elon Musk’s X over sexualized pictures created by its Grok chatbot – just two days after the billionaire accused