BREXIT
BUSINESS / ECONOMYJUL 30, 2018
China offered Britain talks on a post-Brexit free trade deal Monday, reaching out to London as Beijing remains mired in an increasingly bitter trade war with Washington, even as a senior Chinese diplomat reiterated its door remained open for dialogue. China has been looking for ...
BUSINESSJUL 25, 2018
Britain is planning the biggest change to takeover rules in almost two decades, giving the government new powers to block deals in all sectors of the economy to prevent U.K. companies in sensitive industries from falling into foreign hands. The business minister, Greg Clark, wants ...
WORLD / POLITICSJUL 22, 2018
Prime Minister Theresa May's plans to leave the European Union are overwhelmingly opposed by the British public and more than a third of voters would support a new right-wing political party committed to quitting the bloc, according to a new poll. May's political vulnerability was ...
WORLD / POLITICSJUL 22, 2018
From this week Britons will start receiving weekly information bulletins from the government about how to make sure they're ready for a disorderly Brexit, The Times reported Friday. The information will be distributed as "bundles" to consumers and companies as Britain counts down to its ...
WORLD / POLITICSJUL 20, 2018
Prime Minister Theresa May's most senior political enforcer is facing calls to quit after he was accused of cheating to win a crucial Brexit vote in Parliament. Government Chief Whip Julian Smith told some Tory lawmakers to break an arrangement with rival parties known as ...
COMMENTARY / WORLDJUL 18, 2018
BY DAVID HOWELL
Tired of the endless squabbling by the two extremes, chances are good the Conservatives will close ranks behind May's approach
WORLD / POLITICSJUL 18, 2018
BY LIN TAYLOR
Women, young and disabled people risk being left out as Britain shifts aid spending to boost its own trade, experts said on Tuesday, with worries over Brexit already hitting the economy. A parliamentary watchdog and aid agencies criticized plans by Britain's foreign aid agency, the ...
WORLD / POLITICSJUL 17, 2018
Britain's Electoral Commission said Tuesday it had fined the officially designated pro-Brexit campaign group £61,000 ($80,843) for breaching spending rules in the 2016 referendum and referred it to the police. Two years since voting 51.9-48.1 to leave the EU, the United Kingdom, the political elite ...
BUSINESSJUL 16, 2018
Aerospace firms are setting out wares from luxury jets to lethal drones at back-to-back British air shows this week, hoping trade tensions will not deter airlines from buying jetliners even as geopolitical uncertainty allows them to sell more weapons. The quintessentially English atmosphere of the ...
WORLD / POLITICSJUL 15, 2018
Prime Minister Theresa May said U.S. President Donald Trump had previously advised her to sue the European Union as part of her Brexit strategy, disclosing a piece of advice Trump said last week she had ignored. "He told me I should sue the EU," May ...
EDITORIALS JUL 15, 2018
Businesses, including more than 1,000 Japanese firms, need clarity and stability to
WORLD / POLITICSJUL 15, 2018
U.S. President Donald Trump said he intends to run for re-election in 2020 because "everybody wants me to" and there are no Democratic candidates who could defeat him, the Mail on Sunday newspaper reported. Asked by British journalist Piers Morgan in an interview Friday whether ...
WORLD / POLITICSJUL 14, 2018
U.S. President Donald Trump closed out a turbulent 30-hour visit to England on Friday that featured massive protests, moments of pageantry and startling diplomatic backflips as he tried to smooth over controversies on trade, Brexit and his critical assessment of British Prime Minister Theresa ...
WORLD / POLITICSJUL 13, 2018
Britain's financial industry slammed U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May's latest proposal for Brexit, with some calling it the worst outcome possible. In some of their most forthright comments since the referendum vote in 2016, industry executives said Thursday that her plan for a looser partnership ...
WORLD / POLITICSJUL 13, 2018
After months of dither and delay, Prime Minister Theresa May finally spelled out in detail the U.K.'s vision for its post-Brexit partnership with the European Union. The U.K. says the new relationship "could take the form of an Association Agreement" with the EU. That means ...
WORLD / POLITICS | ANALYSISJUL 13, 2018
BY IAN WISHART AND TIM ROSS
The European Union is set to throw embattled British Prime Minister Theresa May a lifeline in Brexit talks because of concern that the biggest risk to getting a deal done is now whether she can cling to power. EU officials say negotiators won't reject outright ...
WORLD / POLITICSJUL 13, 2018
U.S. President Donald Trump said a free trade deal with Britain might be impossible if London went ahead with Prime Minister Theresa May's proposals for post-Brexit ties with the European Union, in damaging remarks that could widen domestic criticism of her plans. In an interview ...
WORLD / POLITICSJUL 12, 2018
Debate in the U.K. Parliament's lower house was formally suspended for five minutes Thursday, when the announcement of a key policy paper on the nation's planned exit from the European Union descended into chaos after members of parliament complained they hadn't received copies of ...
WORLD / POLITICS | FOCUSJUL 12, 2018
BY ELIZABETH PIPER
Theresa May sat quietly sipping tea in the corner of a small room at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester last October. The British prime minister had just delivered a speech meant to restore her authority over a ruling party that was sliding in ...
WORLD / POLITICSJUL 12, 2018
When Donald Trump visits Britain on Thursday, Prime Minister Theresa May will have to face a harsh reality: Brexit makes Britain more dependent than ever on an alliance with the most unpredictable U.S. president in living memory. Sandwiched between a NATO meeting and a summit ...
WORLD / POLITICS | ANALYSISJUL 10, 2018
BY ROBERT HUTTON AND TIM ROSS
British Prime Minister Theresa May looked likely to survive any attempt to oust her over the government's Brexit strategy for now, and is leaning on the biggest opposition party to help get the plan through parliament and counter a mutiny by a group of ...
NATIONAL / POLITICSJUL 10, 2018
BY REIJI YOSHIDA
Hunt reportedly pocketed £14.4 million from the sale of a company he got the idea for after spending two years teaching English in Japan.
WORLD / POLITICSJUL 9, 2018
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson resigned Monday, adding to divisions over Brexit that threaten to tear apart Prime Minister Theresa May's government. May's office said in a terse statement that the prime minister had accepted Johnson's resignation and would name a replacement soon. Johnson, one of ...
WORLD / POLITICSJUL 9, 2018
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May was plunged into the worst crisis of the past year after key members of the government quit over her Brexit plan. Her government is in disarray and her leadership in question just nine months before Britain leaves the European ...
WORLD / POLITICSJUL 9, 2018
The following is David Davis's resignation letter to Prime Minister Theresa May. For the full story, please click on: "Dear Prime Minister "As you know there have been a significant number of occasions in the last year or so on which I have disagreed with the Number ...
WORLD / POLITICSJUL 8, 2018
British Foreign Secretary (foreign minister) Boris Johnson strongly criticized Prime Minister Theresa May's latest Brexit proposal in typically colorful terms before agreeing with his colleagues to back the compromise Friday, reports said. Johnson, a leading supporter of a decisive break by Britain from the European ...
WORLD / POLITICSJUL 7, 2018
Prime Minister Theresa May secured a Cabinet agreement Friday for her plans to leave the European Union, overcoming rifts among her ministers to win support for "a business-friendly" proposal aimed at spurring stalled Brexit talks. After a long meeting at her country residence, Chequers, May ...
