All the headlines from our Uk Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 1 2023 // James Dyson, the billionaire inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner, lost a libel lawsuit on Friday against a British newspaper publisher over a column that branded him a hypocrite who had “screwed”...
Nov 28 2023 // The United States, Britain and more than a dozen other countries on Sunday unveiled what a senior U.S. official described as the first detailed international agreement on how to keep artificial intelligence safe from rogue...
Nov 27 2023 // Even as Britain’s largest companies are hiring women in executive leadership roles at the fastest pace in five years, there’s a big hurdle to cross: they are still unlikely to be in influential roles overseeing...
Sep 25 2023 // Britain’s financial regulators proposed guidance on Monday for financial firms to tackle sexual harassment and bullying, along with new requirements for large banks and insurers to set targets to improve diversity...
Sep 19 2023 // Easing rules to boost the post-Brexit global competitiveness of Britain’s financial sector can only be done while maintaining a resilient financial system, Bank of England Deputy Governor Sam Woods said on...
Sep 7 2023 // The City of London called in a report on Thursday for a new council which would allow Britain’s financial sector to drive through “big moves” needed to boost the economy by 225 billion pounds ($281...
Aug 7 2023 // Britain said on Wednesday [Aug. 2] it would start work on setting up new rules specially designed to prevent a big insurance company collapse from crashing the financial system.Regulators have already introduced rules to...
Jul 21 2023 // More than half of Britons would vote to rejoin the European Union for the first time since the nation opted to leave the bloc seven years ago, YouGov polling showed.Some 51% of Britons told the polling company that they...
Jul 19 2023 // It is too early to tell if Britain’s financial rules post-Brexit will diverge too far from European Union norms to consider giving it access to the bloc’s markets, a senior EU official said on Tuesday.Paulina...
Jul 11 2023 // Aviva, Legal & General and seven other pension firms intend to invest 50 billion pounds ($64 billion) in unlisted companies by 2030 to help the City of London remain a competitive global finance center after Brexit,...
Jun 30 2023 // Britain’s regulators must push ahead with applying their new post-Brexit remit to help keep the country’s financial sector globally competitive, industry officials said on Thursday.After Britain’s...
Jun 29 2023 // Britain and the European Union signed a long-delayed post-Brexit cooperation pact in financial services on Tuesday, but the rapprochement is unlikely to restore EU access for the City of London anytime soon.The memorandum...
Jun 19 2023 // Britain’s main opposition Labour Party on Monday pledged to turn the country into a clean energy superpower by 2030, saying it would overturn a ban on new onshore wind farms while respecting any oil and gas licenses...
Jun 8 2023 // The United Kingdom will host a global summit on artificial intelligence safety this autumn, the British government said on Wednesday, adding Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and U.S. President Joe Biden will also discuss the...
May 19 2023 // Twelve companies were awarded a total of 20 licenses to develop carbon dioxide (CO2) storage offshore, in Britain’s first licensing round for such projects, the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) said on...
May 17 2023 // British car plants will close with the loss of thousands of jobs unless the Brexit deal is swiftly renegotiated, Stellantis has warned, as Ford added its voice to the latest warning from the auto industry since Britain...
May 12 2023 // Britain’s bonfire of European Union laws has been reduced to embers.The U.K. government on Wednesday scrapped a plan to remove all remaining EU laws, about 4,000 in all, from British statute books by the end of this...
Apr 28 2023 // Mental ill-health is now the main cause of sickness absence from work in the UK, costing employers billions of pounds and holding back efforts to boost productivity, according to new research.In the final quarter of 2022,...
Apr 26 2023 // British patients are turning to private health care as the National Health Service struggles with mass strikes, long waiting lists and budget constraints.Insurance company Vitality Health Ltd. said its policies cover...
Mar 31 2023 // Britain on Thursday launched a long-awaited consultation on reforming rules brought in after the global financial crisis to make top bankers accountable for their decisions, saying a globally competitive finance sector is...