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 […]
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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 […]
LONDON — Britain’s Labour government can move past a host of highly critical comments about Donald Trump and work with him if he wins the U.S. presidential election, a U.K. Cabinet minister insisted Tuesday. Health Secretary Wes Streeting stressed the “warmth” of the relationship between Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the U.S. Republican hopeful — […]
LONDON — Donald Trump should accept the result of the U.S. election if he loses to Kamala Harris, the Republican presidential hopeful’s top U.K. ally said. As Americans head to the polls to choose their next president, Nigel Farage, a prominent Brexit campaigner and member of parliament who leads Britain’s Reform UK party, said Trump […]
LONDON — Like father, like son. Elon Musk’s dad joined his billionaire son in ranting against Britain’s government on Monday, accusing center-left Prime Minister Keir Starmer of being a “fascist” and warning the country is headed for the abyss. Errol Musk told Times Radio that Starmer — who attracted the ire of Musk junior earlier […]
LONDON — Kemi Badenoch triumphed in the Conservative leadership election and is now leader of Britain’s official opposition party. Badenoch beat former Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick. She received 53,806 votes, compared with 41,388 votes for Jenrick. She inherits the dubious honor of leading Britain’s Tories, who suffered their worst-ever election defeat in July after 14 […]
LONDON — Rachel Reeves has wanted to run the Treasury for decades. Now, she has her moment in the spotlight. Almost four months after entering office, the U.K.’s first female chancellor will present her debut tax-and-spend statement to the House of Commons on Wednesday at 12.30 p.m. It’s the first fiscal event since Labour’s landslide […]
Happy budget day! Labour’s first tax-and-spend statement for 15 years kicks off at 12.30 p.m., as British Chancellor Rachel Reeves unveils a host of “tough choices” and tries to turn around the British economy — not to mention the new government’s dire poll numbers. Follow all the action with the POLITICO team here through Wednesday.
LONDON — Keir Starmer has suffered the biggest post-election fall in approval ratings of any British prime minister in the modern era. Just months after coming to office, the U.K. Labour leader is already languishing on an approval rating of -38, new polling of 1,012 adults by More in Common found. It marks a precipitous […]
LONDON — Britain’s former colonies should be thanking their old imperial masters rather than pressing for slavery reparations, the man hoping to lead Britain’s Conservative Party declared. Tory leadership hopeful Robert Jenrick said many Commonwealth nations owe Britain a “debt of gratitude” for the democratic institutions they inherited after the U.K. handed over control. Jenrick, […]