World Oct 23 Boris Johnson drops out of race to return as UK’s next prime minister Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Sunday he will not run to lead the Conservative Party, ending a short-lived, high-profile attempt to return to the prime minister's job he was ousted from little more than three months ago.
World Oct 21 Boris Johnson looks for comeback as Britain’s ruling Conservative Party rushes to pick new prime minister Several British lawmakers are jockeying for support to become the country’s next leader following the implosion of Liz Truss’ historically short-lived government. One of them is scandal-tarnished former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Politics Oct 20 WATCH: State Department holds briefing as UN decries Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories Price did not address the findings of the experts' report but reiterated standing U.S. concerns about the U.N. commission.
World Oct 20 WATCH: U.K. Prime Minister Truss resigns after tumultuous 6-week term British Prime Minister Liz Truss has resigned. She has bowed to the inevitable after a tumultuous term in which her policies triggered turmoil in financial markets and a rebellion in her party obliterated her authority.
Politics Oct 19 UK Prime Minister Liz Truss vows to stay as home secretary resigns The government of British Prime Minister Liz Truss is teetering on the verge of collapse, just hours after she vowed to keep governing.
World Oct 19 U.K. inflation at 10.1 percent, 40-year high as food prices rise British food prices rose at the fastest pace since 1980 last month, driving inflation back to a 40-year high and heaping pressure on the embattled government to balance the books without gutting help for the nation's poorest residents.
World Oct 17 New UK Treasury chief reverses controversial economic plan Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt, said he was scrapping “almost all” of Truss' tax cuts, along with her flagship energy policy and her promise — repeated just last week — that there will be no public spending cuts.
World Oct 16 British Prime Minister Liz Truss goes from triumph to trouble in six weeks on the job In just six weeks, the prime minister’s libertarian economic policies have triggered a financial crisis, emergency central bank intervention, multiple U-turns and the firing of her Treasury chief.
World Oct 14 UK names fourth treasury chief in a year amid economic turmoil Prime Minister Liz Truss appointed former Cabinet minister Jeremy Hunt to the post — the fourth Treasury chief in the U.K. this year.
World Oct 13 Despite economic turmoil, UK Treasury chief says tax-cutting plan stays Britain's Treasury chief has rejected suggestions that the Conservative government would reverse course on economic plans that have roiled financial markets.