The British government plans to tighten its asylum system, following Denmark's model, to reduce immigration and address the political storm over migrants crossing the English Channel.

Economic insecurity is hastening the death of the two-party system that’s dominated UK politics for a century, detailed ...

Security minister Dan Jarvis has said the government will not tolerate "covert and calculated" attempts to interfere with the ...

UK government bonds fell sharply on Friday as Rachel Reeves ditched plans to raise income tax in this month’s Budget. Gilts ...

Gold is flat at $4,125 an ounce, and oil (Brent crude) is down about 1.3% to $64.30 a barrel. Bitcoin is up 2.3% at $105,010 ...

With a little more than a week to go until the UK’s Autumn Budget on 26 November, financial markets are looking twitchy.

These are not just interesting times we live in: they will probably define how we ‘do’ politics across the next century ...

“Suffice to say that market focus is now quickly shifting to the political dynamics as opposed to Budget speculation,” said ...

It is the small hours of the morning and outside the Red Bar in central Belgrade, there are a dozen or so travelling England supporters making themselves heard ahead of a World Cup qualifier against ...

That's pretty much the way all of the Scandinavian systems went (Swedish/Norwegian BankID, and in Denmark, NemID was rebranded MittID). Generally called a personal number rather than a tax number or ...

EXCLUSIVE: A group of around two dozen grassroots organisers has launched a surprise bid to lead the new leftwing party, provisionally called Your Party, after a public spat broke out between ...