LONDON — England has scored an own goal, according to Nigel Farage. The Reform UK leader and self-appointed football pundit criticized the appointment of Thomas Tuchel as England’s new men’s national football team manager. “Why can’t we have an English manager?” he tweeted Wednesday. His post on X included a screenshot of the right-wing tabloid […]
Category Archives: UK Politics
LONDON — The U.K. is considering imposing sanctions on two extremist Israeli ministers, Keir Starmer confirmed Wednesday. The prime minister said the government would examine the possibility of sanctioning two far-right Israeli government ministers — Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir — over past “abhorrent” remarks by the pair. Smotrich said in […]
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: Conservative Leader Rishi Sunak had plenty to go on as speculation swirls in Westminster about budget tax-hikes — and as Keir Starmer’s government continues […]
LONDON — Boris Johnson reportedly agreed to try and help Argentinean President Javier Milei meet Rolling Stones legend Mick Jagger. The former U.K. prime minister met the libertarian, chainsaw-wielding Argentinean president in Buenos Aires Monday as Johnson promotes his new book. The pair spoke for more than an hour and, according to local media, ended […]
LONDON — Britain is finally moving into the … 20th century? Hereditary peers, who sit in the country’s House of Lords by birthright, soon face abolition under a plan being pushed by the new Labour government. Thanks to titles handed down over generations, these aristocratic members of the House of Lords can still debate, amend […]
LONDON — The U.K. planned to slap sanctions on Israeli ministers with “extreme” views in the dying days of the last Conservative government, David Cameron disclosed Tuesday. The former foreign secretary said his department had been working up sanctions against two far-right government ministers — Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir […]
King Charles III will not be greeted by a single state leader when he arrives in the Australian capital next week, angering the country’s monarchists. The royal will touch down in Australia this week and head to Canberra next Monday for a reception to mark his first visit to Australia since taking the throne and […]
LONDON — The British government heaped praise on Elon Musk Monday despite a bitter public feud between the tech mogul and Labour over online disinformation. Technology Secretary Peter Kyle on Monday waxed lyrical about Musk’s SpaceX — and stressed that the U.K. remains open to his investment cash even after a row over the government’s […]
Scotland’s former First Minister Alex Salmond has died at the age of 69. Salmond, who led the country between 2007 and 2014, reportedly took ill while in North Macedonia. “The sad news of Alex Salmond’s passing today will come as a shock to all who knew him in Scotland, across the U.K. and beyond,” Scottish […]
LONDON — Joe Biden secretly confessed that his family hails from England rather than Ireland, according to an eyebrow-raising claim from former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Writing in his just-published memoir “Unleashed”, Johnson gives his account of a private conversation with the U.S. president at the 2021 G7 summit in Cornwall. Johnson writes: “He […]