More than a quarter of people in the UK believe the new Prime Minister Liz Truss will be worse than her predecessor Boris Johnson, according to a new poll.

Liz Truss becomes Britain's next prime minister by winning the race to decide who will take over as leader of the ruling Conservative Party. 

A leading US-based investment banking company has warned of a huge recession looming over Britain as a result of surging inflation and worsening cost-of-living crisis that has hit Britons hard in recent months.

British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on Wednesday, where Johnson was hailed as a hero for his relentless support for Ukraine's war efforts.

The UK has promised to liberalize trade with Syria, offering lower tariffs to the war-torn country as part of plans to bring its cost-of-living crisis under control.

Inflation reached yet another new record on Wednesday.

The most significant of a growing wave of strikes in Britain will go ahead with an eight-day walkout after pay talks broke down with employers at Felixstowe port in Suffolk, England.

British consumer price inflation jumped to 10.1% in July, its highest since February 1982, up from an annual rate of 9.4% in June, intensifying the squeeze on households, official figures showed on Wednesday.

Rail passengers are facing major disruption as train drivers have walked out across the United Kingdom over pay.

The Bank of England (BoE) is set to raise the interest rates by 0.5 percent, the greatest increase in almost 30 years, as it warns the UK will fall into recession by the end of the year.