Britain’s Labour Party government is set to deliver a high-stakes budget aimed at fixing public finances and boosting economic growth.

The British government plans to tighten its asylum system, sparking resistance within its own party.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has accused hard-right politician Nigel Farage of crossing “a moral line” with his anti-immigration stance.

Britain’s Treasury chief has warned that global challenges from wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, along with U.S. tariffs, have worsened the U.K.'s economic outlook.

Keir Starmer is facing challenges within his party less than 15 months after becoming Britain's prime minister.

Norwegians are heading to the polls in the main day of voting for a new parliament, after a campaign in which the future of a wealth tax that dates to the late 19th century has been a central issue.

Norway is holding an election for parliament with inequality and the future of a century-old wealth tax in focus.

Britain has announced plans to lower the voting age from 18 to 16 before the next national election.

U.K. Treasury chief Rachel Reeves has announced plans to cut regulations for banks and finance firms to boost the economy.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer marks a year in office this week, facing challenges from within his party and the public.

Inflation in the U.K. spiked to its highest level for more than a year in April amid higher domestic bills such as energy and water.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has pledged to cut immigration numbers and make it harder to settle in the U.K. He is confronting an issue that has bedeviled successive governments and fueled the rise of a new anti-immigrant party that could threaten the country’s political establishment.

The hard-right party Reform UK led by Nigel Farage has won a seat in Parliament and hundreds of councils in local elections across England.

Former British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has died at age 86.

Mauritius’ opposition coalition has won the country’s election by a landslide.

Worries about this week’s tax-raising U.K. budget within financial markets appear to have eased with the interest rates charged on British debt steadying and the pound rising against most other currencies.

British lawmakers are voting on a bill to strip hereditary aristocrats of the right to sit and vote in the House of Lords after more than 700 years.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer marks 100 days in office on Saturday with little cause for celebration.

British Treasury chief Rachel Reeves has promised not to return to an era of public spending cuts despite the dire state of the U.K.’s national finances.

This should be a time of celebration for Britain’s Labour Party.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is just a month into his job and facing a crisis as widespread rioting spreads across the U.K. Starmer, who once was the chief prosecutor for England and Wales, is having to tap that expertise as he tries to restore order and hold violent protesters accountable.

Britain’s new left-leaning government says the nation is “broke and broken,” blaming the situation on its predecessors ahead of a major speech on the state of the public finances that is widely expected to lay the groundwork for higher taxes.

Britain’s new Treasury chief says she will run the economy with “iron discipline.”.

Britain’s new Labour Party government has set out its plans for “national renewal,” saying it will calm the country’s febrile politics and ease its cost-of-living crisis.

The new British foreign secretary has called for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza during a visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories, his second international trip since Labour’s resounding victory in elections earlier this month.

At first glance, elections in France and Britain were a triumph for leftists and reformers over authoritarians and the right.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said he would seek to improve the trade deal with the European Union as he began a two-day tour of the U.K. as part of an “immediate reset” with governments in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.

The U.K. has its first change in government in 14 years after the Labour Party won a resounding victory in a general election.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says a controversial Conservative policy to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda is “dead and buried."

Great Britain’s Labour Party has defeated the Conservatives in a historic parliamentary election.

For someone often derided as dull, Keir Starmer has delivered a sensational election result.

Britain's new prime minister, Keir Starmer, says he will lead a “government of service” on a mission of national renewal.

Some of Britain’s top tennis players are avoiding election talk like double-faults at Wimbledon.

Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 has surged to a record close of 40,913.65, while most other major world markets also advanced.

Labour leader Keir Starmer has officially become prime minister of the United Kingdom after his party won a landslide victory in a national election.

An exit poll and partial returns indicate that Britain’s Labour Party is headed for a landslide victory in a parliamentary election, as voters punish the governing Conservatives after 14 years of economic and political upheaval.

Britain's general election is a big event for political gamblers.

Voters in the United Kingdom are set to cast ballots in a national election on Thursday, passing judgment on British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s 20 months in office, and the four Conservative prime ministers before him.

The United Kingdom will hold its first national election in almost five years on Thursday, with opinion polls suggesting that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party will be punished for failing to deliver on promises made during 14 years in power.

A lot of politicians have promised change to voters in Hartlepool, a wind-whipped port town in northeast England.

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has dismissed suggestions that his party is heading to defeat in Thursday’s general election.

In 1964, the Conservative Party had been in power for 13 years and was on its fourth prime minister, Alec Douglas-Home.

Britain's National Health Service faces myriad problems.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour Party leader Keir Starmer struggled to get their messages across as protesters drowned out the early stages of their final televised debate of the U.K. election campaign.

In the English coastal town of Clacton-on-Sea, many Conservative voters are considering switching to the anti-immigration Reform UK party in next week’s national election.

The U.K. general election is nearly two weeks away.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says anyone involved in using inside information to bet on the date of the July 4 national election should be expelled from his Conservative Party.

The Bank of England has kept its main interest rate at a 16-year high of 5.25%, even though inflation has fallen to its target of 2%.

Two climate protesters have been arrested for spraying orange paint on the ancient Stonehenge monument in southern England.

Inflation in the U.K. has returned to the Bank of England’s target rate of 2% for the first time in nearly three years.

With less than three weeks to go until Britain’s election day, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is running out of time to change the tune.

The U.K. general election campaign has now passed the halfway mark.

The left-of-center politician aiming to become Britain’s prime minister in three weeks’ time is promising to lead a government that’s both “pro-business and pro-worker” and restore stability after years of economic and political turmoil.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has urged voters to throw him a lifeline in the U.K.'s July 4 election, promising to cut taxes and reduce immigration if his Conservative Party is reelected.

The decision by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to leave D-Day commemorations in northern France early has caused a political storm that threatens to derail his Conservative Party’s general election campaign.

The two main contenders to be Britain’s next prime minister have sparred over tax, the cost of living and the country’s creaking health system in an inconclusive televised debate.

The U.K.’s first Black female member of Parliament will be allowed to stand for the Labour Party in the upcoming general election, leader Keir Starmer says, following a fractious few days over her political future.

Britain’s lawmakers left Parliament on Friday for the last time before an election is held in six weeks.

Critics say British Labour Party leader Keir Starmer is dutiful, managerial and a bit dull.

Britain’s political party leaders are crisscrossing the country on the first day of a six-week election campaign.

The United Kingdom will hold its first national election in five years in a country reeling from the cost-of-living crisis, the fallout from Israel-Hamas war and deep divisions over how to deal with migrants and asylum seekers crossing the English Channel from Europe on small inflatable boats.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been accused of leading a “chaotic” government as another one of his Conservative lawmakers defected to the main opposition Labour Party ahead of a looming general election.

Millions of voters in England have voted in local elections, the last big test before a looming U.K. general election.

Sadiq Khan, the Labour Party’s mayor of London, has romped to victory, securing a record third straight term at City Hall, on another hugely disappointing day for the U.K.’s governing Conservatives ahead of a looming general election.

Britain’s governing Conservative Party is suffering heavy losses as local election results pour in.

Millions of voters in England and Wales have cast their ballots in an array of local elections.

The coach of Oxford’s crew taking part in the Boat Race has described the pollution in London’s River Thames as a “national disgrace” as the company responsible for its upkeep faces mounting financial difficulties that critics say will need it to be taken back into state hands.

Leading British economic think tanks are warning that whoever wins the country’s general election this year will face some very tough choices on tax and spending if they want to make sure the public finances don’t deteriorate further.

British Treasury chief Jeremy Hunt is seeking to bolster spirits within his Conservative Party with a series of tax cuts that he hopes can turn the political tide ahead of a general election this year.

A veteran British political disruptor has won a special election in a heavily Muslim town in northern England following a contest that has been mired in chaos and controversy and dominated by the war in Gaza.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says a Conservative lawmaker was wrong to say the mayor of London is controlled by Islamists.

The chaotic debate over a cease-fire in Gaza reverberated through Britain’s Parliament as the speaker of the House of Commons faced calls to resign and lawmakers said they feared for their safety amid pressure from all sides of the issue.

U.K. lawmakers have called for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war.

Voters in two districts in England have delivered new blows to beleaguered Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

The British economy fell into recession at the end of 2023 as output shrank more than anticipated in the final three months of the year.

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is facing mounting pressure to apologize for a remark he made about transgender people, moments after he was informed that the mother of a murdered transgender teenager was in Parliament.

Britain’s main opposition Labour Party has decisively won two special elections.

Members of Britain’s opposition Labour Party are gathering for their annual conference with an unfamiliar feeling: optimism.

Britain's governing Conservative Party is gathering for its annual conference.

The British government has been accused of “cutting corners” as it published a list of 147 schools in England that are potentially at risk of collapse from crumbling concrete.

London’s traffic cameras are under attack.

A British court has ruled against five London suburbs that tried to block a pollution tax on older cars.

Voters weary of economic pain and political turmoil have handed Britain’s governing Conservatives two thumping defeats in a trio of special elections.

Voters are going to the polls in three electoral districts of England, with the governing Conservative Party braced for a drubbing over a cost-of-living crisis and a morale-sapping string of political scandals.

Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is writing a book that will focus on leadership.

Britain’s Conservative Party endured a drubbing in local elections that delivered a warning to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government, and a boost to the opposition, as a national election approaches.

Millions of people in England are voting Thursday in local elections, the first test of electoral opinion since Prime Minister Rishi Sunak took over a fractious and exhausted Conservative Party six months ago.

Nigeria’s opposition has filed a petition in court against the ruling party’s victory in the West African nation’s presidential election.

Nigeria’s opposition has renewed calls for the election result to be overturned a day after the country announced its new president-elect.

People are still lined up hours after voting was supposed to close in Nigeria during the country’s presidential and parliamentary election which opened with large delays.

Anti-poverty campaigners are fuming after the parent of Britain’s biggest home energy supplier said earnings more than tripled last year as consumers struggled to pay soaring utility bills.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is leaving office after nearly six years in which she was praised globally for her empathetic handling of the nation’s worst mass-shooting and health-driven response to the coronavirus pandemic.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is gathering government ministers, medics and health service managers in 10 Downing St. for talks aimed at fixing a health care crisis that has seen thousands of patients stranded outside overflowing hospitals.

Britain’s opposition Labour Party says it will replace Parliament’s unelected upper house with an elected chamber if it wins government.

Britain’s opposition Labour Party has handily won a special election for a northwest England seat in Parliament.

Protesters in Halloween costumes have marched in cities around Britain to demand more affordable child care.

Observers of British politics can be forgiven for scratching their heads in recent weeks as they watch the country reel through a succession of prime ministers without holding an election.

U.K. government ministers are imploring Conservative colleagues to rally behind Prime Minister Liz Truss after a disastrous start to her premiership.

The British government has dropped plans to cut income tax for top earners.

British Prime Minister Liz Truss has acknowledged she could have done a better job “laying the ground” for her package of unfunded tax cuts.