Britain's main minimum wage rate will rise by 4.1% to 12.71 pounds ($16.67) an hour next April to keep up with average pay, the government said on Tuesday, despite complaints from some employers that this will push up prices.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband has urged the government to scale up efforts to return a jailed British couple from Iran to prevent another family being separated for years.

The British government welcomed the news Thursday that net migration in the U.K., the difference between those moving to the country long-term and those leaving, fell by more than two-thirds in the year to June,

The British government's ban on pro-Palestinian campaign group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation amounted to an authoritarian restriction on protest, lawyers representing a co-founder seeking to overturn the ban argued on Wednesday.

The UK government is expecting a bigger windfall from major reforms to a preferential tax system for wealthy residents, despite a growing number of ultra-rich individuals relocating to other territories.

Lawyers for a pro-Palestinian protest group that has been outlawed by the British government went to court Wednesday in a bid to overturn its classification as a terrorist organization.

Britain will scale back plans to give employees protection against unfair dismissal from day one, reducing the qualifying period to six months instead of two years, the government said on Thursday. The change follows talks with trade unions and business groups and removes the last major hurdle for the Employment Rights Bill to pass into law.

A £750 million ($985 million) film studio backed by Avatar director James Cameron has been greenlit by the UK government, which overruled an initial decision against the studio by the local council.