February 27, 2024 6:16 am
Britain's expected slow economic growth mean possible tax increases or further spending cuts are likely to await whoever wins the next election, analysts have said.
November 17, 2022 7:48 pm
British finance minister Jeremy Hunt froze until 2028 a threshold at which employers must start to pay social security contributions, meaning companies will have to pay more.
October 15, 2022 7:47 am
Liz Truss is facing extreme pressure from her political opponents both inside and outside the Conservative party, and the markets. Not having a convincing answer to why Kwasi Kwarteng had to go while she deserves to stay may prove critical to her political future.
July 18, 2019 1:55 pm
The Abedi family emigrated to Britain during the rule of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, moving from London to the Fallowfield area of south Manchester. The brothers' parents returned to Libya after Gaddafi was toppled in 2011.
July 14, 2019 10:05 am
Jeremy Hunt said the call with Iran's foreign minister had been constructive and Mohammad Javad Zarif had told him that Iran wanted to resolve the issue and was not seeking to escalate tensions.
July 08, 2019 6:25 pm
1.6 lakh Conservative Party members would choose their new leader: a first of its kind moment in British history where the PM would be decided by such a small fraction of the country’s population.
July 06, 2019 5:32 pm
The 52-year-old UK foreign secretary, who is going head to head with former foreign secretary Johnson, wrote to the Conservative Friends of India (CFIN), saying he looks forward to engaging with India.
July 01, 2019 9:16 am
Trailing rival Boris Johnson in the race to replace Prime Minister Theresa May, Jeremy Hunt will say on Monday that Britain needs a leader who can plan now to protect the world's fifth largest economy if it has to leave the EU without a deal.
June 25, 2019 8:11 pm
Brexit campaigner and former foreign secretary Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt, once an opponent of leaving the European Union who has now promised to exit with a deal, are in the race to take charge at 10 Downing Street.
June 24, 2019 6:56 pm
The field of candidates has been whittled down to a final two - ex-foreign minister Boris Johnson and current foreign minister Jeremy Hunt - with 160,000 Conservative Party members now making the final choice and a decision expected by late July.




