Starmer completes reshuffle as new home secretary faces small boat Channel crossings crisis - A government source said ‘nothing is off the table’ for the new home secretary Shabana Mahmood

The question is whether the populist’s Reform party has credible solutions to the problems it identifies.

CNBC's Ritika Gupta takes a deep dive on the U.K.’s economy so far this year, looking at everything from house prices to a growing wealth exodus from the country.

Britain is not the only democracy where the centre is crumbling. On September 8th France’s centrist government fell over spending cuts, caught in a pincer of the hard left and right. In Germany the established centre parties have steadily lost votes,

Prime Minister Keir Starmer was elected last July promising a “quieter” politics after years of chaos and scandal under the Conservatives. Losing two senior members of the UK government to scandal in less than a week sees the premier facing a charge he could never have imagined: that his Labour administration is no less noisy than the Tories.

Reform's annual conference was filled with anti-vaxxers, climate change deniers and senior advisers to the Trump administration

The threats to the Federal Reserve’s independence are “a very serious situation,” Andrew Bailey has warned. Speaking to the Treasury select committee, the Bank of England governor said a loss of central bank independence in an economy would mean higher mortgages and other borrowing costs. He said:

British Ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson called Jeffrey Epstein his “best pal” in a 10-page note written in 2003 and released by the House Oversight Committee on Monday.