Government data released to Labour shows that ministers spent more than £1.5bn drafting in help from beyond Whitehall in 2017/18 - a 60% leap on the previous year's figures.more
British Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday said it was "utterly shocking" that Iran had sentenced a British Council employee, believed to be Aras Amiri, to 10 years in prison for spying.more
British Deputy Minister for Brexit, Martin Callanan warned that he "would sincerely fear the consequences" of the Government's failure to implement the British decision to leave the European Union.more
Huawei's chairman has said the Chinese company would be prepared to sign a "no-spy agreement" with the British government to reassure politicians that it has no intention of allowing its technology to be used for surveillance.more
President of Poland Andrzej Duda assessed in a comment for the British daily "Financial Times" that the enlargement of the European Union in 2004 was beneficial for Poland and the so-called old Union.more
r Farage's new party can dominate the British delegation, and UK MEPs can hinder EU action after the European elections - predicts the head of the constitutional committee in the European Parliament, Danuta Huebner.more
A YouGov opinion poll in the UK shows Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservatives have slumped to fifth place ahead of the European parliamentary election.more
UK government is worried about mounting tensions over the tariff dispute between the United States and China, and is of the opinion that nobody will benefit from a trade war - spokeswoman Prime Minister Theresa May said on Friday.more
France will not tolerate repeated extensions of the Brexit deadline, a French presidential adviser said on Friday, expressing hope that European elections in Britain would jolt its political parties into reaching a deal on leaving the EU.more
Britain has gone a week without using coal to generate electricity for the first time since Queen Victoria was on the throne, in a landmark moment in the transition away from the heavily polluting fuel.more
Labour MP Stephen Kinnock told the Brexit select committee that just Poland, Ireland, Hungary and Portugal want the UK to remain - alongside Donald Tusk, president of the European Council.more
The UK is extremely concerned about Iran's statement about the suspension of certain obligations of the nuclear agreement, the spokesman of the British prime minister said. He called on the Tehran authorities not to take steps to intensify the conflict.more
Criminal abuse and harassment of MPs are running at unprecedented levels, reflecting "polarised opinions" in the aftermath of the Brexit vote, Britain's most powerful police officer told a parliamentary committee on Wednesday.more
US President Donald Trump has awarded golfer Tiger Woods the country's highest civilian honour, describing the 43-year-old as a "true legend" who transformed golf and then fought through years of injury to return to the sport's summit. more
Jean-Claude Juncker thinks heeding David Cameron's request to stay silent while Brexit campaigners told "lies" before Britain's 2016 referendum was the biggest mistake he has made as EU chief executive.more
Let's put up a memorial to Polish victims of the Third Reich in Berlin - an appeal by a group of deputies to the Bundestag, which Gazeta Wyborcza writes on Monday.more
British Prime Minister Theresa May called on the leader of the opposition Labor Party Jeremy Corbun to "hear what voters told us in the local elections, to put aside the differences and reach an agreement" in the Brexit case.more