UK

FILE PHOTO: A row of houses are seen in London, Britain June 3, 2015. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett LONDON (Reuters) – Asking prices for houses in Britain have suffered their first September fall in nine years as worries about Brexit caused buyers to hesitate and sellers to keep properties off the market, property website Rightmove said on

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday the next few days would be key to his chances of securing a Brexit deal, and that an agreement with the European Union was still his aim and still possible. FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during the Convention of the North

Britain’s Liberal Democrats leader Jo Swinson leaves BBC studios in London, Britain, September 15, 2019. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls LONDON (Reuters) – The Liberal Democrats party on Sunday toughened its anti-Brexit stance, formally adopting a policy to cancel leaving the European Union if it wins power at a national election. The party holds just 18 seats in

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson likened himself to the unruly comic book character The Incredible Hulk late on Saturday in a newspaper interview where he stressed his determination to take Britain out of the European Union on Oct. 31. FILE PHOTO: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson marks London International Shipping Week in

FILE PHOTO: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson marks London International Shipping Week in London, Britain September 12, 2019. Johnson is pushing for a snap election. Daniel Leal-Olivas/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said huge progress had been made on resolving the Northern Irish backstop sticking point in Brexit talks,

(Reuters) – One of Facebook’s third-party fact-checkers accused Britain’s governing Conservative Party on Friday of misrepresenting a BBC News article in its ads on the social media platform. FILE PHOTO: Silhouettes of laptop users are seen next to a screen projection of Facebook logo in this picture illustration taken March 28, 2018. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration UK

(Reuters) – One of Facebook’s third-party fact-checkers accused Britain’s governing Conservative Party on Friday of misrepresenting a BBC News article in its ads on the social media platform. FILE PHOTO: Silhouettes of laptop users are seen next to a screen projection of Facebook logo in this picture illustration taken March 28, 2018. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration UK

GARRYVOE, Ireland (Reuters) – The gap between Britain and the European Union over Brexit remains “very wide”, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said on Friday, as British leader Boris Johnson prepared to make a renewed push to reach an exit deal with the bloc. FILE PHOTO: Ireland’s Prime Minister (Taoiseach) and Defence Minister Leo Varadkar

LONDON (Reuters) – Leave.EU, a Brexit campaign group led by Arron Banks, will not face any more criminal investigation into the spending return it submitted after the 2016 European Union referendum, London’s Metropolitan Police said on Friday. Arron Banks and anti-Brexit protester Steve Bray are seen outside the Houses of Parliament in London, Britain, March

FILE PHOTO: Sainsbury’s signage is seen at a supermarket and petrol station in west London, Britain, November 8, 2017. REUTERS/Toby Melville LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s second-biggest supermarket, Sainsbury’s (SBRY.L), vowed on Friday to halve plastic packaging by 2025, promising to switch to alternative materials and refillable options to meet consumer demand for less waste. Having

FILE PHOTO: Raymond McCord; part of a group making a legal challenge against British plans to leave the European Union without a vote in the Westminster parliament; departs the High Court in Belfast, Northern Ireland October 4, 2016. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne BELFAST (Reuters) – A Northern Irish rights campaigner whose case against Britain leaving the European

FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, reacts as she leaves after an International Women’s Day panel discussion at King’s College London, in London, Britain, March 8, 2019. REUTERS/Toby Melville LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Duchess Meghan returned to work on Thursday for the first time following the birth of her first child with husband Prince

FILE PHOTO: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks in Parliament in London, Britain September 3, 2019, in this screen grab taken from video. Parliament TV via REUTERS LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has absolute respect for the independence of the judiciary, his spokesman said on Wednesday, after Scotland’s highest court of appeal

An electronic billboard displaying a British government Brexit information awareness campaign advertisement is seen in London, Britain, September 11, 2019. REUTERS/Toby Melville LONDON (Reuters) – The British government’s plans for a no-deal Brexit warn of severe disruption to cross-Channel routes, affecting the supply of medicines and certain types of fresh foods, and say that protests

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s suspension of the British parliament was unlawful, a Scottish court ruled on Wednesday, prompting immediate calls for lawmakers to return to work as the government and parliament battle over the future of Brexit. FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks ahead of the vote on whether to

FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Deputy Leader of the Labour Party Tom Watson arrives at Labour’s National Executive Committee meeting, in London, Britain April 30, 2019. REUTERS/Toby Melville (Reuters) – Tom Watson, Labour’s deputy leader, will call for the opposition party to demand a second Brexit referendum that should be held before a general election, the Independent

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s House of Commons Speaker John Bercow, who played a key role in the three-year Brexit crisis, said on Monday he would stand down from the role, issuing a warning to the government not to “degrade” parliament. Bercow bent parliamentary rules to give lawmakers the chance to challenge government policy, most recently

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – With few options left to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to achieve his goal of taking Britain out of the EU on Oct. 31, officials in Brussels say that he may need to go back to the idea of a so-called Northern Ireland-only backstop to get a Brexit deal done. FILE PHOTO: Britain’s

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday he would not request an extension to Brexit, hours after a law came into force demanding that he delay Britain’s departure from the European Union until 2020 unless he can strike a divorce deal. For the second time in a week, lawmakers then rejected Johnson’s

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson lost influence over Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union on Monday when a law came into force demanding he delay Brexit until 2020 unless he can strike a divorce deal at an EU summit next month. It was unclear what Johnson’s next move in the Brexit crisis would

DUBLIN (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Irish counterpart Leo Varadkar established some common ground on Brexit on Monday when they met for the first time, but significant gaps remain, after the British and Irish governments said. In a joint statement, the two governments said there were committed to securing a Brexit

FILE PHOTO: An adjacent building throws a shadow accross the Bank of England in the City of London, Britain, December 12, 2017. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne (Reuters) – The Bank of England has prepared lenders for any shock from Britain’s departure from the European Union, Alex Brazier, the BoE’s executive director for financial stability told the Times

FILE PHOTO: Irish Prime Minister (Taoiseach) Leo Varadkar arrives for the European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium, June 21, 2019. Virginia Mayo/File Photo DUBLIN (Reuters) – The most likely venue for an agreement on an orderly British withdrawal from the European Union is the EU summit over Oct. 17-18, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson is sticking to his Brexit plan and will not seek a delay to Britain’s departure from the EU at a summit next month, two of his ministers said on Sunday following a resignation from his government. FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson addresses the media outside Downing

LONDON (Reuters) – Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd resigned from the government and the ruling Conservative Party on Saturday in a protest over Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s handling of the country’s departure from the European Union. FILE PHOTO – Britain’s Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Amber Rudd is seen outside Downing Street

LONDON (Reuters) – British lawmakers are preparing legal action in case Prime Minister Boris Johnson tries to defy legislation compelling him to seek a further delay to Brexit, the BBC reported on Saturday. FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits West Yorkshire Police Training and Development Centre, near Wakefield, Britain September 5, 2019. Danny

LONDON (Reuters) – British lawmakers are preparing legal action in case Prime Minister Boris Johnson tries to defy legislation compelling him to seek a further delay to Brexit, the BBC reported on Saturday. FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits West Yorkshire Police Training and Development Centre, near Wakefield, Britain September 5, 2019. Danny

LONDON (Reuters) – British opposition parties said on Friday that they would block Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s second bid to call an early general election in mid-October, setting up a showdown with the government over delaying Brexit. Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits Darnford Farm in Darnford, Banchory near Aberdeen, Scotland, Britain September 6, 2019.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits Darnford Farm in Darnford, Banchory near Aberdeen, Scotland, Britain September 6, 2019. Andrew Milligan/Pool via REUTERS LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson is nothing like Winston Churchill but someone who tells lies about the European Union, according to the grandson of Britain’s wartime leader who was sacked from the

LONDON (Reuters) – British opposition parties said on Friday that they would block Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s second bid to call a snap general election in mid-October, setting up showdown with the government over delaying Brexit. Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson sits as results of the vote are announced during debate in the House of