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U.K. election 2024

The UK has a new government — let the lobbying commence

The UK has a new government — let the lobbying commence

British lobbyists have launched a schmooze offensive as they try to capture the attention of Labour’s greenhorn contingent.

July 22, 2024 4:01 am CET
UK launches pensions review in bid to boost investments
UK’s Labour to reintroduce tobacco ban
‘Is that it?’ UK Labour’s cautious entry to government
Trump’s VP pick J.D. Vance called U.K. ‘Islamist country’
Von der Leyen will skip Britain’s biggest European summit in years
What Washington thinks of Keir Starmer
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Trump shooting: Nigel Farage blames liberals and mainstream media

Reform UK leader, who said he was “upset” but “not shocked” by the attack, plans to visit Trump soon.

July 14, 2024 3:03 pm 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

Divided, reshuffled and politically bruised: Europe’s leaders head to the NATO summit

Political turmoil on the Continent is reshuffling power players going to the NATO gathering.

July 9, 2024 2:26 pm CET

Starmer tackles the ‘shit list’

Sky News’ deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico’s Jack Blanchard are here with their guide to the day ahead in politics. They discuss how the prime minister …

July 8, 2024 2:19 pm CET

X deletes official UK Conservatives account

Tories blamed the social media platform for the deletion.

July 8, 2024 1:34 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

Britain’s new power list: 12 people you need to know in the UK Labour government

Prime Minister Keir Starmer is now in office. These are the people who really matter in his government.

July 8, 2024 4:00 am CET

Can Nigel Farage ride the wave of right-wing populism?

The Reform party’s success in capturing votes in the U.K. general election could only be the start.

July 7, 2024 7:08 am CET

The politics of boring: Why Starmer won — and why Biden probably won’t

As the U.S. and U.K. leaders are discovering, dullness can be an electoral asset. Until it’s not.

July 7, 2024 4:00 am CET
By the numbers

How Britain voted: Charts and maps

We analyze the results which radically changed the UK’s electoral map.

July 6, 2024 4:26 pm 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

Who could replace Rishi Sunak?

Meet the candidates vying to lead the Tories after the party’s worst election defeat in history.

July 6, 2024 2:41 pm CET
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Center-left in US sees a lesson in British election results

Labour’s win is an argument for “bold, pragmatic centrism.”

July 6, 2024 10:48 am CET

Keir gets going

Sky News’ deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico’s Jack Blanchard with their guide to the day ahead in politics. This is a special Saturday edition of the …

July 6, 2024 10:32 am CET

Keir Starmer officially becomes new British PM — live updates

PM Keir Starmer spoke to the press — and Foreign Secretary David Lammy is already off to Europe.

July 6, 2024 6:00 am CET
Cartoon Carousel

World’s cartoonists on this week’s events

Drawing the top stories around the globe.

July 6, 2024 4:02 am CET

Battle for Conservative Party’s soul begins after election bloodbath

The Tory leadership race has already begun.

July 6, 2024 4:01 am CET

Why a disillusioned, angry Britain voted for change

A tour of Britain’s provincial towns reveals a restless nation with no love for its political class.

July 5, 2024 10:47 pm CET

Keir’s here: Starmer wants to change Britain and its standing in the world

It’s all change in the U.K. Labour’s historic landslide election victory beckons a different kind of leadership for Britain on the world stage after 14 years of …

July 5, 2024 7:51 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

14 hours that changed Britain

As Keir Starmer enters 10 Downing Street on the back of a landslide election victory, host Sascha O’Sullivan takes us inside the night power shifted in the …

July 5, 2024 5:39 pm CET

Sinn Féin dominates Northern Ireland with unionists in post-Brexit shambles

Irish republican party completes hat trick of first-place elections finishes.

July 5, 2024 3:26 pm CET

Jeremy Corbyn leads left-wing Gaza revolt against Labour

Independent MPs set to be thorn in PM Keir Starmer’s side over the Middle East.

July 5, 2024 1:02 pm CET

Revenge against the Tories: Liz Truss leads the list of ousted big beasts

In a brutal cull, some of the Conservative Party’s most prominent MPs were thrown out of parliament by Brits fed up with years of chaos. 

July 5, 2024 10:41 am CET
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