There is no mention of the EU on the official agenda of Britain’s Conservative Party annual conference, but it is the topic that overshadows everything else.

The UK’s former finance minister Nigel Lawson has said he would lead the campaign in David Cameron’s Conservative Party for Britain to exit the EU, saying the prime minister would fail to win significant concessions in his reform bid.

IT’S good to know our national broadcaster takes nothing at face value. They don’t just swallow the testimony of the thousands of leading scientists who have contributed to the work of the International Panel on Climate Change.

Police in Britain said they are reviewing evidence that TV cook Nigella Lawson took cocaine.

Royal Bank of Scotland could create an internal bad bank to house more of its problem loans, even if Britain decides not to enforce a breakup of the part-nationalised lender, banking industry and political sources say.

UK bankers’ bonuses could reportedly be deferred for up to 10 years and directors held personally liable for future collapses under a series of recommendations published by MPs and peers this week.

The most realistic threat to Ireland from Britain’s growing Euroscepticism is that it remains part of the EU but in a much weakened state, which undermines the common interests of both countries, according to outgoing Labour MP David Miliband.

Former British chancellor of the exchequer Nigel Lawson has called for the UK to leave the European Union, saying it is no longer in the country’s economic interest to remain in the bloc.

British bank Barclays is to close a profitable but controversial tax advisory business as part of an attempt by its new chief executive to clean up the bank’s image.

London: Former British finance minister Nigel Lawson said investors have taken account of the risk that the May 6 British election outcome may mean a hung parliament with no single party controlling a majority of seats.

Nigella Lawson has told how she once made her children give away their Christmas presents to charity.

Bank of England deputy governor John Gieve was accused today of being asleep on the job when the Northern Rock banking crisis erupted.