FILE PHOTO: Prime Minister Theresa May speaks at the House of Commons during Prime Minister’s Questions in London, Britain June 12, 2019. ©UK Parliament/Mark Duffy/Handout via REUTERS LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May is considering pushing through a 27 billion pound increase to the education budget in her final weeks in power prompting a

LONDON (Reuters) – A British-Iranian aid worker jailed in Tehran has begun a hunger strike to demand release, her husband said on Saturday, adding he would support her by fasting outside Iran’s embassy in London. Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of jailed British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe speaks with supporters as he stages a vigil and

FILE PHOTO: Ireland’s Prime Minister (Taoiseach) and Defence Minister Leo Varadkar arrives for the informal meeting of European Union leaders in Sibiu, Romania, May 9, 2019. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir DUBLIN (Reuters) – A Brexit deal without the Northern Ireland “backstop” clause is as much a threat to Ireland as a no-deal Brexit, Ireland’s prime minister said

LONDON (Reuters) – The leader of Britain’s main opposition party has questioned whether the government had evidence to back up its accusations that Iran was behind attacks on oil tankers in the entrance to the Gulf, and warned against escalating tensions. FILE PHOTO: Britain’s opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn leaves his home, following the

LONDON (Reuters) – The number of people to die from a listeria outbreak in British hospitals has risen to five from three, Public Health England (PHE) said on Friday. The agency said that since the outbreak it had reviewed earlier cases and established that one other death had also been linked to the infection, which

LONDON (Reuters) – Boris Johnson, the frontrunner to be Britain’s prime minister, promised he would take the United Kingdom out of the European Union by Oct. 31, saying that only by preparing to leave without an agreement could a no-deal Brexit be prevented. FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Secretary of State for Health Matt Hancock is seen

FILE PHOTO: Ryanair logo is pictured on the the jacket of a cabin crew member ahead of a news conference by Ryanair union representatives in Brussels, Belgium September 13, 2018. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir/File Photo MONS, Belgium (Reuters) – Belgium’s labour laws can apply to Ryanair employees based in the country, a local court ruled on Friday,

FILE PHOTO: Passengers collect their luggage from the baggage reclaim area of Terminal 5 London Heathrow Airport in west London, Britain, December 19, 2018. Niklas Halle’n/Pool via REUTERS LONDON (Reuters) – Police warned environmental campaign group Extinction Rebellion not to use drones as part of a planned protest at London’s Heathrow airport on June 18.

FILE PHOTO: Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond speaks at the launch of a report, by living standards think tank the Resolution Foundation, on the impact of the higher minimum wage at the Resolution Foundation offices in London, Britain May 30, 2019. Jonathan Brady/Pool via REUTERS LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) – Britain’s finance minister Philip Hammond said

Conservative Party leadership candidate Boris Johnson gestures as he talks during the launch of his campaign in London, Britain June 12, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls LONDON (Reuters) – Boris Johnson, front-runner in the race to succeed Theresa May as Britain’s prime minister, vowed that the United Kingdom would leave the European Union, saying that only by

LONDON (Reuters) – The full extradition hearing to decide whether Wikileaks founder Julian Assange should be sent to the United States to face accusations including spying charges will take place in February next year, a London court ruled on Friday. A demonstrator holding a placard protests outside of Westminster Magistrates Court, where a case hearing

LONDON (Reuters) – The likelihood Britain and the European Union part ways without a deal has jumped in the past month, according to economists in a Reuters poll, as most candidates jockeying to take over as prime minister appear to have adopted a hard line stance. FILE PHOTO: European Union and British flags flutter in

LONDON (Reuters) – Boris Johnson, the frontrunner to replace Theresa May as Britain’s prime minister, came under pressure on Friday to face the media over his Brexit plans as another of his rivals dropped out of the leadership battle. FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Secretary of State for Health Matt Hancock is seen outside Downing Street in

PM hopeful Boris Johnson leaves his home in London, Britain, June 14, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah Mckay LONDON (Reuters) – Boris Johnson, the front-runner in the race to succeed Theresa May as British prime minister, has agreed to take part in a televised debate with other contenders on Tuesday, the BBC said. “I think the best solution

LONDON (Reuters) – Boris Johnson, the frontrunner to replace Theresa May as Britain’s prime minister, must face more scrutiny over his Brexit plans, his closest rival said on Friday with a taunt that his hero Winston Churchill would not shy away from the media. FILE PHOTO: PM hopeful Boris Johnson leaves his home in London,

FILE PHOTO: The Shell logo in Manama, Bahrain, March 7, 2017. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed (Reuters) – Shell Energy Retail’s top boss apologised to customers after Britain’s energy regulator ordered the utility to compensate around 12,000 customers it overcharged on default tariffs after a price cap was introduced this year. Ofgem said Shell Energy Retail Ltd,