Sir Keir Starmer is expected to tell Donald Trump that the BBC must “get its house in order” after the US president vowed to forge ahead with a lawsuit of up to $5bn (£3.8bn) against the broadcaster. The Prime Minister is set to use a call with Mr Trump this weekend to say he believes…
Rachel Reeves, U.K. chancellor of the exchequer, delivers a speech in London, UK, on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images British government bond yields rose sharply on Friday following reports Finance Minister Rachel Reeves is no longer planning to raise income tax rates in the Autumn Budget later this month. The yield…
By Mike Dolan -What matters in U.S. and global markets today By Mike Dolan, Editor-At-Large, Finance and Markets Markets have already effectively priced in the U.S. government’s reopening on Monday, with today’s House vote to restore funding through January seen as a formality. Attention has now turned more to tech sector wobbles and the deluge…
A resident living near the Bell Hotel in Epping says she doesn’t “feel safe” and called on Keir Starmer to “stop being so woke” after a court ruled that it can continue to house asylum seekers. A High Court judge ruled today that Epping Forest Council had been unsuccessful in its bid for an injunction…
Both the right-wing Conservatives and Reform insist they have no desire to destroy the BBC. “There is a future for the BBC, because it does have a strong global brand, but in order to retain its trust and confidence, it’s got to respect its impartial charter responsibilities and make sure that the news and current…
When Keir Starmer was in India last month, an assertion from him got all of the UK worked up. Britain could learn from Aadhaar, he said. For a country that has spent decades sneering at India’s bureaucratic mess, here was the British Prime Minister suggesting that India’s digital identity system might be a model worth…
Published on Nov 02, 2025 06:27 pm IST British police have confirmed that the knife attack on a train in Cambridgeshire is not being treated as a terrorist incident. Two men have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following the violent assault aboard a train near Huntingdon station on November 1 According to Officer…
At least 10 people were injured after a series of stabbings on a London-bound train on Saturday, and two men were arrested when the train made a stop at Huntingdon station as police officers rushed to the scene. Of the 10 injured, nine are believed to have “life-threatening injuries” in an incident described as “appalling”…
Nine people have been hospitalised with life-threatening injuries after a mass stabbing on a train travelling from Doncaster to London King’s Cross on Saturday evening. A 10th person suffered non life-threatening injuries, and two men were arrested in what prime minister Keir Starmer called an “appalling incident”. A man with a large knife is believed…
Published on: Nov 02, 2025 03:58 am IST “The appalling incident on a train near Huntingdon is deeply concerning,” Keir Starmer said in a post on X Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Saturday said that the stabbing on a Huntingdon-bound train on Saturday was “deeply concerning”. Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer also wrote that…