Elizabeth Piper

British finance minister John Healey will put his support firmly behind firms investing in defence on Monday, part of what he will describe as a new industrialisation drive to try to ​spur the nation's anaemic economic growth.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham told the United Nations that Britain was ready to lead ‌an international effort to establish AI standards, citing concerns that the technology could outpace safeguards and pose mounting national security risks.

US President Donald Trump hailed Andy Burnham on Tuesday as a "natural business person" at what the new British leader's team described as a smooth first face-to-face meeting.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham heads to New York on Monday for the United Nations General Assembly, his first foray into global diplomacy and a test of his vow ​to press British interests even if they are at odds with US President Donald Trump.

Britain will also no ‌longer participate in a U.S.-led coordination mission for Gaza.

Britain's new finance minister John Healey, a former trade unionist who has backed light-touch rules for banks, must soon ​decide on the right balance for a budget that could be the defining moment for Andy Burnham's premiership.

Britain's populist Reform UK said two senior aides to leader Nigel Farage stepped down on Friday after ​an undercover investigation alleged the party had broken electoral law by arranging for a foreign donor to pay for political polling.

The British prime minister said he would cut taxes on electricity bills, the first of several early moves to signal his intent to ease cost-of-living pressures and ​quell anger over successive governments' failure to bring change.

Andy Burnham became Britain's seventh prime minister in a decade on Monday, pledging to reshape its politics to deliver a new economic model and revive a nation "fed up" with ​a revolving door of leaders.

Britain's new prime minister, Andy Burnham, said on Monday he did not want to leave office having failed to tackle ​the nation's social care crisis, pledging to "use some of my ‌political capital" on an issue close to his heart.