LONDON — U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer rejected a claim by his Israeli counterpart that the U.K. undermined Israel’s security when it blocked some arms exports to Tel Aviv. Starmer pushed back at Benjamin Netanyahu after the Israeli PM accused the U.K. of “sending a horrible message” to Hamas by suspending some arms export licenses […]
Category Archives: UK Politics
Donald Trump’s “vitriol” helped make racism in the U.K. more acceptable, according to a British government minister. Speaking at the Labour party’s annual conference in Liverpool on Monday night, Home Office Minister Angela Eagle listed the former U.S. president among those who had made “anti-immigrant rhetoric” mainstream in the West. In comments first reported by […]
LONDON — Real Liz Truss-ism has never been tried. That’s the verdict of Liz Truss, Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister, who launched a robust defense Monday of the economic plan that precipitated U.K. market chaos and prompted her ouster from office just 49 days into the job. In a video marking the two-year anniversary of her […]
LIVERPOOL, England — Britain has a new, all-powerful leader calling the shots — just not the one people thought they were voting for. Since Labour swept to power in July, the government’s agenda has become more or less identical with that of the chancellor, Rachel Reeves — for better or worse. Prime Minister Keir Starmer […]
LONDON — There’s no conference like a party conference. Or should that be, no party like a party conference? For the first few weeks of fall, British politicos of all stripes get together with their comrades for a multi-day jamboree in a town or city far from Westminster. A whirlwind of speeches, parties, plotting and gossiping, […]
LONDON — For successive Tory governments, the most feared parliamentary tribe was the European Research Group. For the best part of a decade after the U.K. voted to leave the European Union, the pro-Brexit ERG was by far the most organized of the Conservative Party’s multitude of parliament sub-groups, toppling one prime minister and applying […]
LONDON — U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy stood up to give a speech in London Tuesday wanting to be a global climate leader. By the time he sat down he had managed to undermine those sweeping ambitions. Lammy has since drawn criticism from diplomats and campaigners for telling his Kew Gardens audience that the country’s […]
LONDON — Nigel Farage questioned whether the U.K. should allow Ukraine to fire long-range missiles deep inside of Russia for fear of further escalating the war. Speaking on radio station LBC, the Reform UK leader — who has faced criticism from political rivals in the U.K. for his views on Russia’s invasion — said permitting the […]
LONDON — Benjamin Netanyahu accused Britain’s new government of undermining Israel by blocking arms exports to the country and dropping objections to an international arrest warrant against him. In an interview with British newspaper the Daily Mail, the Israeli prime minister attacked center-left Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s “misguided” administration and accused London of “sending […]
LONDON — From “Hillbilly Elegy” to vice presidential candidate, JD Vance has come far since his hardscrabble roots in Ohio, and is now the bearer of the Trump doctrine for a millennial generation. He’s also gained notoriety for raising the temperature of America’s political discourse. There’s a philosophical side to Vance shaped by a network […]