Food inflation in the UK reached 15.7 percent in April, the highest on record, but business experts say food prices should begin to fall in the coming months. According to the latest BRC-NielsenIQ shop price index, food inflation rose to 15.7 percent last month from 15 percent in March. The inflation was even higher for…

Businesses and residents in Bath are fighting net zero measures such as roadblocks, bollards, and digital permits, which they say will stop them from moving freely around the historic city. Bath, a UNESCO world heritage site famed for its Roman baths and links to the writer Jane Austen, is introducing a raft of environmental measures…

The Liberal Democrats have deselected a former journalist with “Christian beliefs” only 10 months after he was chosen to be the candidate in one of their top target seats. David Campanale claimed earlier this week, during an interview with GB News, that activists in Sutton and Cheam, a Conservative-held constituency in southwest London, had turned against him…

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has vowed to “keep going” after his leadership suffered a double blow as his ruling Conservative Party lost two crunch by-elections. In Tiverton and Honiton, where local Conservative MP Neil Parish resigned after admitting he had watched pornography on his phone in the House of Commons, the Liberal Democrats won after…

Britain’s ruling Conservative Party endured a “tough night” following Thursday’s local council elections but the results were “mixed,” Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said. The ballots are still being counted, but the Conservatives have lost 10 local councils—including three London councils that they had held for decades—and more than 180 councillor seats in England, and…

A British government minister has been criticised for suggesting that Prime Minister Boris Johnson being fined for attending lockdown-breaching parties in Downing Street was akin to former ministers receiving speeding tickets. Johnson, his wife Carrie, and Chancellor Rishi Sunak were issued “fixed penalty notices” by the Metropolitan Police last week for attending a birthday gathering…

After 16 years in Hong Kong, Damian Coory saw the gradual “encroachment of big government” come to a head with the Umbrella protest movement in 2014, which saw hundreds of thousands of students occupy the busy streets of the financial hub in reaction to Beijing’s growing control. The public relations director and former TV news…

Former Coalition Senator Sam McMahon will enter the upcoming Australian federal election race as a candidate for the libertarian-leaning Liberal Democrats. The former senator resigned in late January from the Country Liberal Party (CLP)—part of the governing centre-right Coalition—after losing a tough pre-selection contest to former Alice Springs councillor Jacinta Price. McMahon will now be…

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has come under increased pressure after his Conservative party lost a traditional safe seat to the Liberal Democrats amid a slew of scandals and internal disagreements over COVID-19 measures. The Liberal Democrat candidate Helen Morgan won 17,957 votes, trouncing Tory candidate Neil Shastri-Hurst by 5,925 votes. It was a massive…

British lawmakers from across the political divide have renewed their calls on the government to impose a full diplomatic and political boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics after leaked papers linked top Chinese leaders to the crackdown on Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang. A series of documents published online by the UK-based campaign group Uyghur Tribunal…