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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the potential determining factors of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow to the United Kingdom (UK). The determining factors explored are economic, political and financial determinants. In order to examine this we have a look at the six most important investing countries in the UK over a period from 1985 to 2016. We focus on the FDI flow between developed countries, since these six countries are all developed. This study takes three different dimensions into consideration for the UK and this offers a relevant contribution to the existing literature. We develop the econometrics approach using ordinary least square method for panel data. Our major finding are that the openness of a country is the most important factor to attract foreign investors to the home country, the UK, followed by the interest rate in the home country and the third factor that has a significant advantage for foreign investors is the beneficial investment climate in the UK. Also GDP per capita, taxes and tariffs and inflation rate have a significant but this impact appears to be smaller.