LONDON — The U.K. government has reversed its opposition to the International Criminal Court (ICC) seeking an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Friday marked the deadline to submit documents as part of a legal challenge against the ICC, a date which had been extended due to the U.K. general election and change […]
Category Archives: UK Politics
LONDON — Roll up, roll up … the great Tory beauty parade is about to begin. Over the next three months, the U.K. Conservatives will elect a new leader to steer the party through the choppy waters of opposition, dreaming of a swift return to power. The field is likely to be wide. Nominations opened […]
BERLIN — Europe’s two largest donors of military aid to Ukraine — Germany and Britain — are buddying up in a defense pact as fears grow that a victory for Donald Trump in November’s U.S. election could spell disaster for European security. Concerns that Washington could dramatically rein in support for Ukraine next year have […]
LONDON — Britain’s most senior government official is being advised to step down permanently from his role for health reasons at the end of this year. Simon Case, the Cabinet secretary, is one of the most powerful people at the center of the British government, and has been in the eye of a turbulent period […]
LONDON — Britain’s new government is less than three weeks old, but Westminster’s vast lobbying industry is already circling. While hundreds of Labour’s new MPs are still without staff or even their own desk in parliament, their inboxes are rapidly filling up with welcome messages from lobbyists alongside invites to glitzy receptions. It’s all part […]
The U.K. government launched a pensions review that it claims could unlock billions of pounds for investments in the British economy. The landmark review into the pensions and investment market, announced by the U.K.’s Chancellery late Saturday, seeks ways to boost the investment potential of support schemes while equally optimizing savings for pensioners. The government […]
LONDON — If Britain’s new prime minister campaigned in prose, it’s because he intends to govern in prose too. Having just won a whopping victory after 14 painful years in opposition, Keir Starmer might be expected to go for broke when it came to his first program for government. This was Tony Blair’s approach in […]
LONDON — The first Black man to lead a European country, Vaughan Gething, has quit after just four months at the helm of the Welsh government. Having succeeded Mark Drakeford as Welsh first minister in March, Gething was dogged by a series of scandals. He survived a vote of no confidence but was finally forced […]
LONDON — Across Europe, politicians from all sides watched the attack on Donald Trump Saturday with a sense of dread. What many saw was a growing danger in their own countries reflected straight back at them. As the Continent began to process just how close Trump came to death, the message from European leaders was […]
Sorry Britain, Europe’s just too tired and busy to talk much right now. This week, the U.K.’s new Prime Minister Keir Starmer will host around 45 leaders from EU countries and other nations on the fringes of the bloc at a summit of the European Political Community. But weary and distracted leaders in Brussels and […]