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Rishi Sunak on Thursday appeared to score a surprise win with a studio audience at a key debate with frontrunner Liz Truss in the race to become Britain’s next prime minister. While opinion polls back Truss to win the vote among Conservative party members, those sitting in the audience at the Sky News debate overwhelmingly supported Sunak in a show ...

The Bank of England (BoE) has raised interest rates to 1.75% from 1.25% – the highest level since January 2009. A warning has also been issued by the BoE that the UK is set to plunge into the longest recession since the financial crisis. The recession is set to begin in autumn, and last for more than a year, as ...

A man arrested with a crossbow at Queen Elizabeth’s Windsor Castle home on Christmas Day last year has been charged with having a weapon with intent to “alarm her Majesty” under Britain’s Treason Act, police and prosecutors said on Tuesday. Jaswant Singh Chail, 20, from Southampton in southern England, had been arrested on Dec. 25 while carrying a crossbow in ...

The British High Commission has invited applications from Bangladeshis for Chevening Scholarships to study in the United Kingdom. The scholarship offers full financial support for scholars to study for any eligible master’s degree at any UK university whilst also gaining access to a wide range of exclusive academic, professional, and cultural experiences. Applications will be accepted from August 2 to ...

Prince Harry can take the British government to court over his security arrangements in the U.K., a judge in London ruled Friday. Harry and his wife Meghan lost publicly funded U.K. police protection when they stepped down as senior working royals and moved to North America in 2020. The prince wants to pay personally for police security when he comes ...

Britain’s former finance minister Rishi Sunak again topped the latest vote by Conservative MPs to choose a new prime minister, as another candidate was eliminated to leave three contenders in the race. Sunak garnered 118 votes, followed by former defence minister Penny Mordaunt on 92 and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss on 86, with longshot candidate Kemi Badenoch trailing on 59 ...

Thermometers hit 40.3C (104.5F) at Coningsby in Lincolnshire, one of 34 locations to surpass the previous high of 38.7C – set in July 2019. London Fire Brigade declared a major incident after a surge in fires, including grassland blazes, and power has been disrupted in parts of England. Some rail services have been cancelled after tracks overheated or buckled and ...

LONDON — Britain shattered its record for highest temperature ever registered Tuesday amid a heat wave that has seared swaths of Europe, as the U.K.’s national weather forecaster said such highs are now a fact of life in a country ill-prepared for such extremes. The typically temperate nation was just the latest to be walloped by unusually hot, dry weather ...

OXFORDSHIRE: Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said for the first time in modern history the East can be on equal terms with the West, as the global dominance of the US and its allies comes to an end, reports RT.com. Due to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and the conflict in Ukraine, “for a large part of ...

  An amber warning for extreme heat has begun for England and parts of Wales as the UK braces for record temperatures. The Met Office warning will extend to southern Scotland from Monday until Tuesday, when England’s alert will rise to red for the first time. Network Rail and Transport for London have warned people to travel only if necessary ...