The Latest Breaking News from Britain

According to fund’s World Economic Outlook, Britain is on course to average 3.4% this year and 2.5% in 2026

Between 2007 and 2010 Southwark council licensed 76 films to be shot on the high-rise Heygate estate in London’s Walworth area, providing a gritty backdrop for dramas of poverty and crime. This “theatre of stigma”, a term coined by historian of modern Britain Holly Smith, had come to dominate the…

A cost of living crisis is not inevitable if there is the will to stop companies extracting profits from Britain’s essential services, says Mathew Lawrence of the Common Wealth thinktank

Letter: Lt Gen (retd) Richard Nugee highlights the vital link between climate resilience and national security

NEWS ANALYSIS: Political editor David Maddox explains why successive UK governments have dithered over deciding whether Beijing is a friend or foe

The prime minister is gearing up to blame Nigel Farage and Brexit for Britain’s expected downturn in productivity at the November Budget

James McAlpine, 22, who stands at 7ft 2in, became an unlikely star of last week’s Conservative Party Conference

NEWS ANALYSIS: With Keir Starmer facing scorn from both Israel and the US ambassador in Tel Aviv over the UK’s role in the Middle East peace process, the US president has once again come to his aid. Political editor David Maddox explains why

George Finch, 19, claims a suspect branded him ‘racist and fascist’ and assaulted him while he was out with a female friend