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 […]
Kensington Palace is no longer a “trusted source” of information after it released a manipulated picture of Kate Middleton and her three children, according to the head of Agence France-Presse (AFP). After the manipulation was detected by a horde of digital sleuths, AFP issued a “kill notice” for the photo, something which is very rarely […]
In the months before Russia invaded Ukraine, many European leaders buried their heads in the sand, refusing to acknowledge the impending threat of war. Now, with the conflict into its third year, they don’t dare speak about peace. When Pope Francis floated the idea March 9 that negotiations might be necessary, given that Ukraine had […]
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: No prizes for guessing, after Rishi Sunak’s week was completely upended by allegations in the Guardian that his party’s biggest donor had said the […]
LONDON — The former Conservative Deputy Chairman Lee Anderson has defected to Reform U.K., the right-wing populist party set up by Nigel Farage. Anderson’s defection is a major scalp for the party, which gains its first MP, and a major blow for British PM Rishi Sunak — whose Conservatives expect a major challenge from Reform […]
Rishi Sunak’s mother-in-law has been appointed to the Indian parliament’s upper chamber after a career in philanthropy. Sudha Murthy, 73, was chair of the Infosys Foundation, `the nonprofit arm of the tech giant Infosys, founded by her husband N.R. Narayana Murthy in 1981. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted on X that he was “delighted” […]
Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play Acast New host Sascha O’Sullivan explores Westminster’s obsession with all things Australia — and considers the lessons British politics might learn from down under. From the U.K. Tory party’s succession of Aussie campaign chiefs to the varying attempts to deploy Australian-style immigration policies, Westminster has held an enduring fascination […]
LONDON — Former U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss spent more than £15,000 on in-flight catering for a single trip to Australia while she was running the Foreign Office. The bill from the 2022 visit via private jet cost British taxpayers more than £1,400 per head for the 12 government representatives on the trip, while a […]