The U.K. prime minister’s residence in Downing Street was infested with fleas, former PM Liz Truss charges in her new memoir. Truss, who had the shortest tenure as leader in British history at just 49 days, made the revelation in her new book, excerpted on Saturday by the Daily Mail. The book, “Ten Years to […]
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LONDON — The right-wing political party set up by U.K. Brexiteer Nigel Farage has apologized after publicly firing one of its election candidates for being “inactive” — when the candidate had in fact died. Reform UK admitted it didn’t realize that Tommy Cawkwell, its election candidate in York Central, had perished when he was sacked […]
LONDON — Every British politician loves to reference Winston Churchill. Few do it quite like Boris Johnson. A crowd in Canada was on Wednesday treated to the sight of Johnson, a former Conservative prime minister, railing against his Conservative successor Rishi Sunak’s proposals to ban anyone born after 2008 from ever purchasing tobacco. A vote […]
LONDON — In politics, timing is everything. And the European Court of Human Rights’ shock ruling on climate targets this week could hardly have been more explosive for a British political landscape already gripped by election fever. In a landmark ruling Tuesday, Europe’s top human rights court ruled in favor of a group of elderly […]
LONDON — Rishi Sunak told MPs to be vigilant of attempts to undermine British democracy as the Westminster honey trap sexting scandal rumbles on. “There’s lots of bad actors, as we’re seeing around the world, who are trying to cause damage to our democratic processes,” the prime minister told LBC. POLITICO first revealed last week […]
Senior MP William Wragg resigned the Conservative whip Tuesday night as the Westminster honey trap scandal took another twist. The Hazel Grove MP had already quit as chair of the Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC), and as vice chair of the 1922 committee of backbench Tory MPs. Wragg announced prior to the […]
Senior Tory MP William Wragg resigned from two prestigious backbench roles Monday night as the Westminster honey trap scandal continues to spiral. The Hazel Grove MP quit as chair of the Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC), a role he has held since January 2020, and as vice chair of the 1922 committee […]
British Conservative member of parliament Luke Evans revealed that he’s among the U.K. politicians targeted in the sexting scandal first reported by POLITICO on Tuesday. Evans is the second parliamentarian to go public about receiving alluring personal messages and explicit images, following senior Conservative MP William Wragg — who admitted on Thursday that he gave […]
LONDON — British politics has been unsettled by talk of honey traps and blackmail after more than a dozen men in U.K. politics were sent flirtatious messages on WhatsApp. The messages from two suspicious mobile numbers to MPs, aides and journalists, revealed by POLITICO Wednesday, escalated in several cases to the sender sharing explicit images. […]
LONDON — Rishi Sunak ran the local radio gauntlet Tuesday — and didn’t exactly help himself by chuckling through it. The embattled U.K. prime minister is on a media blitz ahead of local elections a month today, and faced a tough grilling from local radio stations in the North East of England as he tried […]