It is becoming worryingly easy to use the dread phrase “the 1970s” when discussing Britain’s economy. Inflation has been persistently high, industrial unrest continues to dominate the news agenda and ...

Fifty years ago this month, Harold Wilson returned as Britain’s prime minister after winning the first 1974 election against a backdrop of paralyzing strikes, soaring inflation and terrorist bombings.

LONDON, Nov 4 (Reuters) - The size of the British state is heading back to levels not seen since the 1970s, and taxes will have to rise, a think-tank said on Monday, as the two main political parties ...

LONDON, Jan 13 (Reuters) - The British government secretly funded Reuters in the 1960s and 1970s at the behest of an anti-Soviet propaganda unit linked to British intelligence and concealed the ...

Candidates Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss take part in the BBC Conservative party leadership debate at Victoria Hall in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, Britain, July 25, 2022. Jacob King/Pool via Plans for a ...

The traffic on Britain's roads has started creeping back up during the past couple of weeks, but - as you may have noticed when out shopping, exercising or going to work - they're still a lot quieter ...

Liliana Talwatte (left), Francis Gercke, Michelle Marie Trester, Jessica John and Carter Piggee in “Abigail’s Party” from Backyard Renaissance Theatre Company. Photo by Daren Scott I haven’t ben to a ...

LONDON, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Britain's state spending will head back to levels not seen since the 1970s if the two main political parties in the Dec. 12 election make good on their promises, a think-tank ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is the author of ‘Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through: The Surprising Story of the British Economy ...

LONDON — Britain’s state spending will head back to levels not seen since the 1970s if the two main political parties in the Dec. 12 election make good on their promises, a think-tank said on Monday, ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's state spending will head back to levels not seen since the 1970s if the two main political parties in the Dec. 12 election make good on their promises, a think-tank said ...