A man has been charged with violent disorder and assault after a protest outside a hotel housing asylum seekers turned violent. Jarad Skeete, 19, of Irwell Close, Aigburth, Liverpool, was among 15 people arrested amid the demonstration outside the Suites Hotel in Knowsley on Friday evening, Merseyside Police said. Skeete has been accused of violent…

The UK government has granted planning permission for the country’s first new coal mine in 30 years, provoking anger from environmental campaigners. The coking coal mine on the edge of Whitehaven in Cumbria, which is expected to extract nearly 2.8 million tonnes per year, is expected to create more than 500 jobs. But climate activists…

Britain’s main opposition Labour party has called on the government to veto China’s bid to join a trans-Pacific trade agreement once the UK itself is admitted to the pact. The UK applied on Feb. 1 to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), a landmark 11-country trade deal that includes Australia, New…

The UK government will ensure lawmakers remain accessible to the public following the killing of Conservative MP Sir David Amess by a suspected terrorist, Home Secretary Priti Patel said on Sunday. Amess, 69-year-old MP for Southend West, was fatally stabbed on Friday at Belfairs Methodist Church in the English town of Leigh-on-Sea. He was holding…

The UK government plans to introduce requirements for voters to show photographic ID when casting ballots, in order to ensure the integrity of elections. The Electoral Integrity Bill, which requires voters to show identification before being issued with a ballot paper in a polling station, is part of the Conservative government’s legislative agenda set out…

British politicians have condemned the Hong Kong authorities’ sentencing of nine prominent pro-democracy activists on Friday for taking part in peaceful protests. Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai was sentenced to 14 months in prison, while nine other activists received jail time or suspended sentences for organising and participating in unauthorized assemblies during mass anti-Beijing,…

Britain has condemned the Hong Kong authorities’ sentencing of nine prominent pro-democracy activists on Friday for taking part in peaceful protests. Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai was sentenced to 14 months in prison, while nine other activists received jail time or suspended sentences for organising and participating in unauthorized assemblies during mass anti-Beijing, pro-democracy…

Britain on Tuesday introduced measures to prevent British organisations from being complicit in the Chinese regime’s human rights violations against Uyghurs. “The evidence of the scale and severity of the human rights violations being perpetrated in Xinjiang against the Uyghur Muslims is now far reaching,” UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said in a statement. “Today…

Following mass arrests of opposition figures in Hong Kong earlier Wednesday, Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong, urged the European Parliament to reject the investment agreement the European Commission reached with the Chinese regime last week. More than 50 pro-democracy activists, former lawmakers, and politicians were arrested in Hong Kong on Wednesday…