ON THE PRIME MINISTER’S PLANE TO BAKU — Keir Starmer insisted Britain doesn’t have to choose between friendship with the EU or the United States — despite the re-election of Donald Trump as U.S. president last week. Speaking as he travelled to the COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan, the British prime minister downplayed suggestions that […]
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Dame Karen Pierce is hoping the Trump administration won’t abandon Ukraine.
LONDON — Suspended Labour MP Mike Amesbury has been charged with assault after CCTV footage appeared to show him punching a man in the street. Amesbury, 55, was summoned to appear at a magistrates court to face a charge of assault, Cheshire Police said in a statement released Thursday. Rosemary Ainslie, head of the Crown […]
LONDON — The British government brushed aside Brexiteer Nigel Farage’s offer to help build diplomatic relations with Donald Trump. Farage is a longstanding ally of the U.S. president-elect and spent election night at his Mar-a-Lago residence. Despite being a political opponent to Britain’s center-left Labour government as leader of the Reform UK party, Farage has […]
Prime minister’s questions: a shouty, jeery, very occasionally useful advert for British politics. Here’s what you need to know from the latest session in POLITICO’s weekly run-through. Elephant in the room: A new party leader’s debut PMQs is usually the top political story of the day. But Kemi Badenoch’s first outing against Keir Starmer as […]
LONDON — Nigel Farage compared his friend Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election to the plight of Winston Churchill. The Reform UK leader, a top British ally of the incoming U.S. president, drew parallels between Trump — booted out by voters in 2020 only to triumph in 2024 — and the British wartime […]
LONDON — Mayor of London Sadiq Khan risked reigniting a years-long feud with Donald Trump Wednesday as he said the U.S. presidential election result shows “progress is not inevitable” and hit out at “racism and hatred.” Khan, a frequent critic of Trump’s during his first term and a prominent member of Britain’s governing Labour Party, […]
LONDON — Donald Trump’s expected return to the White House will put Britain’s much-lauded “special relationship” with the United States to the test like never before. Center-left prime minister Keir Starmer has argued the U.K. can make it work, congratulating Trump Wednesday and insisting “the U.K.-U.S. special relationship will continue to prosper on both sides […]
LONDON — Boris Johnson was removed from Channel 4’s U.S. election night program for promoting his book too much. The former U.K. prime minister, providing analysis for the British broadcaster, repeatedly held up his recently published memoir “Unleashed” and dropped references to it, despite being told off by the hosts for doing so. “Now, here […]
LONDON — Whoever said opposition was boring? New U.K. Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch has picked her shadow Cabinet, responsible for taking the fight to Labour after the Tories suffered a massive kicking in July’s general election. Their July election rout means the once-mighty party of government has been reduced to just 121 MPs. That leaves […]