LONDON - British MPs are set to hold a critical vote on January 15 on the Brexit agreement negotiated by Prime Minister Theresa May with the European Union, her spokesman said Tuesday. The House of Commons will on Wednesday resume a debate on the deal that was halted in December when May ...

LONDON: In Britain, tens of thousands of supporters of the European Union marched through London today to demand that the government holds a public vote on the terms of Brexit. The protesters waved the blue and gold flag of the EU and held up “Bollocks to Brexit” banners to call for ...

LONDON: Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage said on Sunday he was increasingly concerned that a vote for Britain to leave the European Union could be overturned by a powerful group of the bloc’s supporters. In an interview with Britain’s Observer newspaper, Farage, former head of the ...

LONDON: British lenders are planning to further tighten their grip on consumer lending which has already been slowing in recent months, a Bank of England survey showed on Thursday. The BoE, which has been urging banks to avoid risks in their lending to households, said expectations among lenders ...

LONDON: Eight out of 10 grassroots members of Britain’s opposition Labour Party want a referendum on the terms of the country’s exit from the European Union, according to a survey published on Thursday. That is at odds with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s official policy which calls ...

LONDON: British households are their least confident since immediately after last year’s Brexit vote, partly because of this month’s interest rate hike and further signs of a slowdown in the housing market, a survey showed on Friday.A consumer confidence index produced by polling firm YouGov ...

ZURICH: (APP) Britain lost $1.5 trillion (1.4 trillion euros) in household wealth in 2016, a blow caused by the pound's free-fall after the Brexit vote, Switzerland's second largest bank Credit Suisse said Tuesday.A full 406,000 Britons lost their status as dollar millionaires this year, Credit ...

BRATISLAVA: (APP) Britain vowed Tuesday to oppose any attempt to create an "EU army" following the Brexit vote, although the head of NATO denied that European defence cooperation would undermine the transatlantic alliance.The row broke out as European Union defence ministers met in Bratislava to ...

LONDON: (APP) A wave of women are taking power in Britain: the country will soon have a female prime minister following the Brexit vote while Scotland and Northern Ireland already have women leaders."Is this all a happy coincidence? Has the glass ceiling finally been smashed?" the Guardian ...

PARIS: (APP) Britain's vote to quit the EU won't affect negotiations to hammer out a EU-US trade deal aimed at creating the world's largest free trade and investment area, the EU's top trade official said Thursday."We are determined to continue these negotiations. They are important for Europe, for ...