French police have risked the lives of migrants trying to cross the English Channel to the U.K. in small boats by using dangerous tactics, including puncturing boats and threatening migrants with pepper spray, several newspapers reported on Sunday. A joint investigation by the Observer, Lighthouse Reports, Le Monde and Der Spiegel found that the French […]
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A group of British politicians has been targeted by Chinese cyberattacks, U.K. Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden will tell parliament on Monday, according to the Sunday Times. Alison Giles, the parliament’s director of security, has called a group of MPs and peers, who are all members of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), for a […]
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, England — The “unpredictable” former U.S. President Donald Trump would keep even the closest American ally, Britain, guessing over what he planned to do in terms of NATO, former U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May said on Friday. Speaking to a group of Conservative Party supporters in Milton Keynes, May recalled her first meeting with […]
Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play Acast Host Sascha O’Sullivan delves into the secrets of the polling industry and asks — if the polls were wrong before, could they be wrong again? David Cameron’s former pollster Andrew Cooper tells Sascha how the Conservatives upstaged the polling industry in 2015 and pulled an unexpected election […]
LONDON — Even U.K. Labour Party leader Keir Starmer’s closest supporters had become frustrated by his inability to open up in public. But something has changed recently. Thanks to a little help from a former president, the hot favorite to become the next British prime minister has begun sharing, even allowing himself to become emotional […]
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. What they sparred about: Rishi Sunak’s stalled Rwanda plan — which aims to permanently send asylum seekers who arrive in Britain to the central African nation — took […]
Wales has a new leader. Now for the towering in-tray. Vaughan Gething will formally become First Minister on Wednesday, after narrowly winning a ballot of Labour Party members, making the 50-year-old Europe’s first Black head of government. As the plaudits fade, attention will turn to what it means for the three million-strong country’s relationship […]
The Welsh Labour party elected Vaughan Gething as its new leader, making the 50-year-old politician the first Black head of government in Europe. Gething will be confirmed as first minister next week, after a highly divisive leadership contest that pitted the former health and economy minister against Education Minister Jeremy Miles. The contest followed the […]
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Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play Acast This week, Aggie Chambre looks at the art of the leak and asks — why do people do it, and what happens when your political secrets are exposed? Former Deputy Prime Minister Damian Green talks about helping to leak Home Office secrets when Labour was in charge. Aggie […]