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British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has bolstered her front-runner status in the race to succeed Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

U.K. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has cemented her place as front-runner in the race to replace Prime Minister Boris Johnson by winning endorsement from an influential former rival.

U.K. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss cemented her place as front-runner in the race to replace Prime Minister Boris Johnson, winning endorsement Saturday from an influential former rival for the top job. Tom Tugendhat, who was eliminated from the contest in earlier rounds of voting by Conservative lawmakers, said Truss had the “resolution, determination, and passion” to be prime minister. The endorsement is a blow to ex-Treasury chief Rishi Sunak, the other finalist in the race for the next Conservative leader.

The fractious race to replace Boris Johnson as Britain’s prime minister has narrowed, with four candidates battling for two spots in a run-off vote by members of the governing Conservative Party.

The contenders to replace Boris Johnson are scrambling to distance themselves from the scandal-tainted politician who remains Britain’s prime minister for a few more weeks.

The candidates to become the next British prime minister are appealing to their right-wing base as they seek to replace Boris Johnson.

A leading contender to replace Prime Minister Boris Johnson has accused opponents of “mudslinging” as the Conservative Party contest turns nasty.

Conservative lawmakers in Britain have knocked another contender out of the contest to replace Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Two candidates have been knocked out of the race to replace British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

The race to succeed Prime Minister Boris Johnson is being called Britain's most diverse political leadership campaign.

Nominations in the race to replace British Prime Minister Boris Johnson have closed, with eight Conservative lawmakers securing enough support from their colleagues to make the first ballot.

Candidates to replace Boris Johnson as Britain’s prime minister are scattering tax-cutting promises to woo their Conservative Party members.

The contest to succeed British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has begun after he announced he is resigning as Conservative Party leader.

Welsh microchip producer has become a front-line in the tech war between the West and China.

Labour says there is "no excuse" for inaction - but ministers say sanctions must be "legally sound".

A former U.K. Royal Marine who waged a high-profile campaign to leave Afghanistan with almost 200 rescued dogs and cats has flown to safety.

The UK says "every effort" was made to destroy sensitive papers when the embassy was evacuated.

U.S. absence could provide China with an opportunity to offer development aid and other forms of support to Afghanistan.

British lawmakers are being called back from their summer break to Parliament to discuss the worsening situation in Afghanistan, as U.K. troops arrive in Kabul to help evacuate remaining Britons there.

Afghanistan veterans are 'riveted in horror' by Taliban's 'faster-than-expected' takeover

Wingtech Technology is heavily backed by the Chinese Communist Party, according to analysis from Chinese investment screening specialists Datenna.

Nexperia, a Dutch chip firm owned by China's Wingtech, confirmed on Monday that it plans to acquire the U.K.'s largest chip producer, Newport Wafer Fab.

Located in Newport, South Wales, Newport Wafer Fab's chip plant dates back to 1982 and it is one of just a handful of semiconductor fabricators in the U.K.

Tory rebels have urged the Government to re-introduce its 0.7 per cent foreign aid pledge next year or face defeat in the Commons. Over 40 MPs, including former Prime Minister Theresa May, are understood to be prepared to back an amendment on Monday that would require ministers to reverse their cut in the foreign aid budget to 0.5 per cent of national income. However, they have offered the Government an "olive branch" by accepting a delay to its reintroduction until next year, by which time the

Boris Johnson is facing a fresh Conservative revolt over Britain's spending abroad, as MPs warn that up to 20 British Council outposts face closure due to a funding shortfall. In a letter to the Prime Minister, some 100 MPs, including around 20 Tories, claim that the closures would fly in the face of Mr Johnson's promises of a "Global Britain" after Brexit, dealing "a severe blow to our soft power". The intervention comes after a behind-the-scenes effort by senior Conservatives to persuade the F

British intelligence agencies now believe it is “feasible” that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a laboratory accident in Wuhan, China.

The owner of the Liberian-flagged tanker later said the ship was briefly boarded by armed guards before being allowed to go. There was a brief standoff between the British navy and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessels recently. The British navy said it warned three Guard vessels away after they tried to impede the passage of a commercial British tanker that the navy was escorting. Britain's Royal Marines assisted in the seizure of an Iranian oil supertanker on July 4 by Gibraltar, a British overseas territory off the southern coast of Spain. The move has been in the works for many weeks and is not a response to Friday's seizure by Iran of a British tanker.