The Latest Breaking News from United Kingdom

TikTok set to spend billions on new European data centers and security upgrades

EEA and UK user data will now be stored in Europe by TikTok, as it pledges to make huge environmental strides.

TechRadar · Dec 1, 2023

Exit from Edinburgh zoo may signal end to era of China’s panda diplomacy

Beijing’s strained relations with the west are less easily mollified by loans of cuddly endangered bears

The Guardian - UK · Dec 1, 2023

Closer EU ties is Labour’s top foreign policy priority, says David Lammy

EU leaders find dealing with Keir Starmer like ‘honey on toast’ after clashes with Tory government, says shadow foreign secretary

The Independent UK · Dec 1, 2023

Tory deputy chair Lee Anderson says he will move to Orkney if UK reverses Brexit

Lee Anderson defends ‘inhumane’ remarks about asylum-seekers and tells Ursula von der Leyen to ‘shut up’

The Independent UK · Dec 1, 2023

The Killers announce rare arena shows in UK and Ireland

Brandon Flowers’ band are hitting the road next year to celebrate 20 years of hits, from ‘Mr Brightside’ to ‘Human’

The Independent UK · Dec 1, 2023

Rishi Sunak ‘won’t allow foreign court to block’ Rwanda plan

Centrist Tories urge PM not to abandon UK’s human rights commitments, but Sunak said his patience ‘worn thin’ by delays

The Guardian - UK · Dec 1, 2023

India and Georgia being put on list of ‘safe states’ for migrant removals by UK - plan slammed by peers

Peers accuse the Government of failing to provide key information for the controversial change

Evening Standard · Dec 1, 2023

Seasonal hiring data offers sneak peek into the widening economic gulf between U.S. and U.K.

Seasonal hiring is up in the U.K. and down in the U.S. But the story of the countries' economies is the opposite.

Fortune · Dec 1, 2023

‘I like telling difficult stories about contradictory, messy humans’: Meet 2023’s Bafta Breakthroughs

From Florence Pugh to Tom Holland, and Letitia Wright to Jessie Buckley, the names included on the yearly Bafta Breakthrough list are often a spot-on indicator of future industry heavyweights. Here are the names you need to know from the 2023 roster

The Independent UK · Dec 1, 2023

‘Transgressions’ in personal life may have affected public’s confidence in Covid rules, Matt Hancock tells inquiry – as it happened

Health secretary during pandemic accepts that ‘consequences of rule-breaking’ may have affected ‘public’s propensity to adhere to rules’

The Guardian - UK · Dec 1, 2023