Prime Minister Johnson on Wednesday promised to help companies try to save jobs put at risk by the Covid-19 pandemic. “These are indeed tough times, and I have no doubt that many businesses, ma...

Britain will face an exponentially growing death rate from Covid-19 within weeks unless urgent action is taken to halt a rapidly spreading second wave of the outbreak, the country’s senior medic...

Britain is likely to need to reintroduce some national coronavirus lockdown measures sooner rather than later, a leading epidemiologist and former senior government health advisor said on Saturday. N...

Boris Johnson suffered another blow to his reputation when Amal Clooney, a top human rights lawyer and wife of Hollywood star George Clooney, resigned as the UK government’s envoy on media freed...

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The UK government is planning to introduce a so-called “Seat Out to Help Out” scheme to help theatres and other entertainment venues reopen after an extended period of coronavirus lockdown...

Tata Steel chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran said the company was in “intense discussion” with the Boris Johnson government to find a sustainable and structural solution to the UK steel bu...

Barraged by protests from angry teachers, parents and students, the British government has abandoned the improvised college-entrance exam system it cobbled together for schools in England after the pa...

Hardly had Philip Barton’s feet touched the ground in Delhi as the British high commissioner to India in succession to Dominic Asquith than he is being pulled back to London to head the enlarged...

Two-thirds of British businesses say they are now “fully operational” after the coronavirus lockdown, up from half in June, according to a survey on Sunday. A further 21 per cent of the f...