Jan 26 (Reuters) - Vacancies for jobs in Britain continued to fall in December and the pace of increases in advertised salaries slowed, according to a survey on Monday that added to signs of a cooling labour market.

The split between private and public sector pay became starker in the latest data; public sector pay growth rose to 7.9 per cent, the highest level since the start of 2001. Private sector pay growth, meanwhile, dropped to 3.6 per cent, the lowest figure since the end of 2020.

Behind closed doors, senior Labour figures brace for a pivotal by-election loss, as internal tensions rise and external challenges loom large.

LONDON, Jan 26 (Reuters) - British lawmaker Suella Braverman, a former interior minister, became the latest prominent Conservative to join Nigel Farage's right-wing Reform UK on Monday, and she accused her former party of lying to voters over immigration.

(Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Keir Starmer has lost the support of wealthy voters who helped his Labour Party secure a historic majority in last year’s UK general election, according to a new survey that lays bare the seven month-old government’s ...

The UK Labour government under Sir Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is continuing to ramp up its brutal assault on migrants and asylum seekers, escalating from where its Conservative predecessor left off. On December 1, the Observer reported ...

The UK’s Labour Party-controlled government has approved plans for China to build a sprawling new embassy complex in central London, despite warnings from lawmakers, security officials, and Chinese dissidents who say the project poses serious national security risks.

(Bloomberg) -- The UK announced new funding to crack down on illegal migration as it deports the largest number of people from the country in years. The Labour government says 13,500 people with no right to be in the UK have been removed since they took ...

UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood unveiled a fascistic anti-immigration policy Monday, effacing any remaining differences between the ruling Labour Party, the Conservatives, and the far-right Reform UK. Mahmood unveiled a 33-page policy paper, “Restoring ...

Labour’s powerful ruling body ‘calls for pause in Burnham by-election decision over stitch-up fears’ - Labour's governing National Executive Committee is embroiled in a furious row over whether to all