Prime Minister Keir Starmer is the first British leader to travel to China in eight years, on a trip dominated by questions over global trade and security concerns.

By Susanna Twidale LONDON, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Britain secured a record amount of solar power in an auction offering guaranteed electricity price contracts to renewable projects, the government said on Tuesday,

In a way the humiliation of Sir Keir Starmer, Britain’s fourth prime minister in four years, is greater than that of his Conservative predecessors. After a landslide win in 2024, he boasted of governing for a decade;

Buffeted by tariffs and trade tensions, Prime Minister Keir Starmer took British business leaders to China and emerged with deals on visas and Scotch whisky, as well as pledges to deepen ties.

LONDON − For President Donald Trump, the spectacle may be the point. He likes that kind of thing. And the British royals − a king, queen, two princes, a princess and various other blue-blooded hangers-on − are experts in delivering guards of honor ...

Like a chronic ailment, strategic incoherence gnaws at everything Britain does in the world. Prime minister Keir Starmer’s real achievement in resetting relations with mainland Europe—witness the recent visits of the French president Emmanuel Macron ...

The last operating coal power plant in Britain closed this week, ending more than 140 years of coal-fired electricity and proving that major economies can wean themselves off the dirtiest fossil fuel. “It’s a massive movement,” said Dave Jones, an ...

For a while, Britain’s green consensus looked ironclad. Through the 2010s and into the early 2020s, the Conservatives and Labour fought over who was keener to decarbonise the country. The public seemed eager too, so long as wind turbines wouldn’t spoil ...

Thea Jaffe never expected to use a baby bank. In fact, she was responsible for referring other single parents from her local community group to the charity Little Village, which provides essential supplies for new parents who otherwise wouldn’t be able ...

Shortly before 3 P.M. on a Tuesday in late September, David Lammy, the British Foreign Secretary, sat down at the blond horseshoe-shaped table of the U.N. Security Council chamber, in midtown Manhattan. It was High Level Week for world leaders at the ...

The leader of the Scottish Labour Party called on Mr. Starmer to quit amid turmoil over an ambassador with close ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Potential successors in his party quickly backed him.