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The Tories are gone — and Britain is moving closer to Europe again

Keir Starmer’s first foreign policy move is to refocus UK-EU relations.

July 12, 2024 8:46 am CET

Defeated UK Tories suffer ‘very public nervous breakdown’

The Conservative Party leadership contest is effectively underway — and it’s not pretty.

July 12, 2024 4:01 am CET

Starmer’s ‘quiet’ climate radicalism sets up battle with Farage

The new Labour prime minister is gearing up for a fight with populists over net zero policy. He believes he can win.

July 8, 2024 7:00 pm CET

Keir Starmer says he wants a better Brexit trade deal

The new U.K. prime minister told Northern Ireland’s government in Belfast existing rules must be enforced before he could seek further changes.

July 8, 2024 4:26 pm CET
Unpacked

Democracy’s at risk, it’s time politicians stopped fibbing

Politicians and the truth have always been strained acquaintances, but faced with populist fabulists in our current post-truth era, is deception really the way to go?

July 8, 2024 12:25 pm CET

6 things UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer wants to fix in his first month

Britain’s new leader already has an overflowing in-tray.

July 8, 2024 4:00 am CET

Secret meetings, private threats and a massive arms race: How the world is preparing for Trump

In 2016, no one in the world was ready for President Trump. America’s NATO allies aren’t making the same mistake this time.

July 7, 2024 11:31 am CET

Keir Starmer: I didn’t believe the exit poll

The U.K.’s new PM said he was getting used to being called by his new title — but was still happy to be addressed by his first name.

July 6, 2024 4:05 pm CET

Labour’s top policy priorities

A deep dive into what Keir Starmer’s government will tackle in their first 100 days and then in their first year.

July 6, 2024 3:40 pm CET

How the Tory campaign melted down in 6 disastrous weeks

Rishi Sunak played a bad hand appallingly — and paid a terrible price.

July 5, 2024 6:32 pm CET
Analysis

Labour’s election victory is weaker than you think

Conservative annihilation may not be the most consequential outcome of the 2024 U.K. general election.

July 5, 2024 7:23 am CET

Who is Keir Starmer? Britain’s new prime minister is complex, unknowable, aggrieved

Starmer could be a great reforming Labour PM. Or he could be, as his thwarted enemies call him, a Tory in red.

July 5, 2024 6:04 am CET
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The UK’s Brexit dream is dead

Sorry Boris, your Euroskeptic vision has failed in so many ways.

July 4, 2024 6:23 am CET

Rishi Sunak is destined for failure. But does he even know why?

Britain’s prime minister, for the first time in his life, wasn’t up to the task.

July 3, 2024 4:00 am CET

An American’s guide to the 2024 UK election

We can’t give you a felon and an old guy on July 4 — but we do have a gambling scandal. And Nigel Farage.

July 3, 2024 4:00 am CET

Why is British politics so unfailingly funny?

Rishi Sunak, Keir Starmer and Nigel Farage walk into a bar. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch.

July 1, 2024 5:25 am CET
Unpacked

Farage let the cat out of the bag — NATO expansion was just an excuse for Putin

Putin was going to do whatever he wanted regardless of what NATO and the EU did or didn’t do — he would have just come up with another excuse to make war, another great lie.

June 28, 2024 4:00 am CET

The last 10 days of an election campaign 

As the general election reaches its final week, host Sascha O’Sullivan takes us inside the last push of the campaign. She explores how parties use every trick …

June 28, 2024 4:00 am CET

Nobody even noticed the Tories’ biggest legacy

Five years ago this week, in the teeth of the Brexit wars, an outgoing Tory prime minister was looking for a legacy. Theresa May settled on net zero —and now it’s on Labour to keep that target alive.

June 25, 2024 8:00 pm CET

City dreams of Labour win to deliver new Brexit deal

It’s considered a ‘hanging offense,’ but could some EU countries hash out side deals with the UK on financial services?

June 25, 2024 5:00 am CET

Nigel Farage ‘parroting Putin’s lies’ on Ukraine, says Boris Johnson

Two leading Brexiteers throw around words like ‘liar’ and ‘nauseating’ after Farage says EU provoked Ukraine war.

June 24, 2024 2:21 pm CET

Fourth senior Tory official investigated in UK election betting scandal: Report

The Gambling Commission is looking into whether senior officials used inside knowledge to collect winnings worth thousands of pounds.

June 23, 2024 2:53 pm CET

Westminster’s photographers: a politician’s best friend or worst enemy?

As we approach the final lap of the 2024 general election, host Sascha O’Sullivan discovers what life is like for the photographers who trail hot on the …

June 21, 2024 5:00 am CET

The crisis Britain’s politicians are too scared to discuss

Voters may want social care to be on the ballot at the UK general election, but no one seems to be listening.

June 21, 2024 4:01 am CET
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