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BERLIN (Reuters) - German Finance Minister Christian Lindner plans a 10.1 billion euro ($10.29 billion) relief package to help taxpayers in 2023 which he is set to present next...

(Bloomberg) -- It was tempting when Democrats announced their surprise climate deal to imagine American auto executives popping champagne bottles. But any bubbly probably ought to...

(Bloomberg) -- Senator Joe Manchin said he resurrected negotiations on a tax, energy and climate bill that had formed the core of President Joe Biden’s economic agenda, in part, to...

(Reuters) - Boris Johnson is stepping down as British prime minister, forcing the ruling Conservative Party to choose a new leader who will be announced on Sept. 5. The winner...

By Geoffrey Smith  Investing.com -- Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss will run off against each other in the final stage of the contest to become leader of the U.K. Conservative Party -...

By Geoffrey Smith  Investing.com -- Russia's Foreign Minister gave the clearest signal yet that the Kremlin intends to annex southern Ukraine, rather than just concentrate on the...

By Andrew MacAskill and Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - Three candidates are left in the contest to replace Boris Johnson as British prime minister. Below are some details on...

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced a major investment in rail lines in the North of England just as most of the network shuts down due to the record temperatures. A...

LONDON (Reuters) - Rishi Sunak, a leading candidate to replace Boris Johnson as Britain's prime minister, dismissed suggestions on Thursday that he was too rich to run the country...

By Michael Holden and Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) -Former finance minister Rishi Sunak won the biggest backing from Conservative lawmakers on Wednesday in the first vote to...

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's main opposition Labour Party will put forward a motion for a no confidence vote in Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government on Tuesday, with the vote...

LONDON (Reuters) -British finance minister Nadhim Zahawi said on Monday he would abolish a planned increased in corporation tax and would cut the basic rate of income tax by...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's finance minister Nadhim Zahawi, who is running to replace Prime Minister Boris Johnson, said on Monday he would publish his tax return annually if he...

LONDON (Reuters) -The leader of the British opposition Labour Party on Friday said he would try to bring about a national election using a vote of confidence in Prime Minister...

LONDON (Reuters) - Richard Fuller was appointed as the new Economic Secretary to the Treasury on Friday filling a post vacated by lawmaker John Glen who earlier this week...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's government will focus on delivering pre-agreed policy rather than unpicking previously agreed decisions, a spokesman for Boris Johnson said on Friday,...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Boris Johnson and his wife, Carrie, are changing the location of a planned wedding party, an ally of the prime minister said on Friday, denying...

LONDON (Reuters) -British Education Secretary James Cleverly said on Friday he did not agree with calls for Prime Minister Boris Johnson to stand down immediately, saying the...

By Andrew MacAskill and Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - Boris Johnson said on Thursday he was resigning as Britain's prime minister, bowing to calls from ministerial colleagues...

LONDON (Reuters) -Former British Prime Minister John Major said outgoing leader Boris Johnson should not remain in Downing Street until a successor is found, and must go now "for...

LONDON (Reuters) -UK deputy prime minister Dominic Raab and former senior minister Michael Gove will not run to become the next British leader, a Daily Mail reporter said on...

LONDON (Reuters) - Robert Buckland, Britain's new Secretary of State for Wales, has suggested that the freshly formed cabinet will block Prime Minister Boris Johnson if he tried...

LONDON (Reuters) - British junior culture minister Chris Philp quit on Thursday, the latest minister to call for Prime Minister Boris Johnson to resign over a series of scandals...

LONDON (Reuters) - Guy Opperman, a British junior minister who oversees pensions, resigned on Thursday, saying the unwillingness of Prime Minister Boris Johnson to quit had left...

LONDON (Reuters) - British security minister Damian Hinds quit on Thursday, saying the country needed Prime Minister Boris Johnson to go in order to restore trust in our...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's minister for Northern Ireland, Brandon Lewis, quit on Thursday, saying he no longer believed the values of honesty, integrity and mutual respect were...

By Elizabeth Piper, Kate Holton and Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Boris Johnson defied pressure to quit on Wednesday from senior ministers and a mounting...

LONDON (Reuters) - Hundreds of staff at British train services London North Eastern Railway and c2c have voted to strike and carry out industrial action short of a strike in a...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's minister for safeguarding Rachel Maclean resigned from her post on Wednesday, becoming the latest government official to step down in protest at Prime...

LONDON (Reuters) - British Conservative party lawmaker Mark Logan stepped down from his role as a parliamentary private secretary to the Northern Ireland Office on Wednesday,...

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told a committee hearing that the country did not want politicians to be "engaged in electioneering" in response to a...

LONDON (Reuters) - Duncan Baker, a British lawmaker belonging to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's party, resigned from his Parliamentary Private Secretary role on Wednesday, saying...

LONDON (Reuters) - New British finance minister Nadhim Zahawi says his rise from "an immigrant boy" to hold the job as steward of the country's treasury showed what a great...

LONDON (Reuters) - British minister for children and families Will Quince resigned on Wednesday, saying he was going after being given an "inaccurate" briefing over Prime Minister...

By Elizabeth Piper, Alistair Smout and Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was fighting for his political survival on Tuesday after finance...