BIRMINGHAM, England — Never mind the massive electoral kicking: Britain’s Tories are feeling good. Anyone who came to the Conservative Party’s annual conference this week expecting a wake found something very different. The Birmingham gathering was noticeably quieter after the Tories’ crushing defeat to Labour in July’s general election, with far fewer events and a […]
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Here’s one way to win over Conservative Party members. Robert Jenrick, in the running to lead Britain’s embattled Tory Party, made a startling admission at the Conservative conference Tuesday: his daughter’s middle name is “Thatcher.” Speaking to GB News’ Christopher Hope for an on-stage grilling in front of the Tory faithful, Jenrick — who has […]
BIRMINGHAM, England — Fresh from a landslide election defeat, the Conservatives have been in the mood to party. After a resounding thumbs down from the public in July, Britain’s Tories are gathering in Birmingham for their annual conference — and aren’t exactly shying away from the headlines. The Tories are in the process of picking […]
LONDON — The late Queen Elizabeth II had a form of bone cancer in her final years, Boris Johnson claimed in his memoir. In an extract from “Unleashed,” due for publication next month, the former prime minister said he had “known for a year or more” that the British monarch “had a form of bone cancer” […]
LONDON — Emmanuel Macron tried to make Britain suffer for leaving the European Union, Boris Johnson laments in a new book. In the latest extract from his memoir “Unleashed,” the former U.K. prime minister accused the French president of “weaponizing” irregular migration to undermine Brexit. He said Macron seemed prepared to turn a blind eye […]
BIRMINGHAM, England — Holding an extended contest to find the next leader of the Conservatives was meant to be a healing exercise. Instead, some members just want it all to stop. As the party gathers for its annual conference in Birmingham this week, not everyone’s convinced that the chance for some proper soul-searching was worth […]
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is about “greed and power,” a top MP said Sunday after resigning over the leader’s austerity measures and a billowing scandal around his acceptance of expensive freebies from donors. “It is so profoundly disappointing to me as a Labour voter and an activist … to see this is […]
LONDON — Boris Johnson tried to persuade Prince Harry to remain a senior member of the Royal Family and not quit the U.K. The former prime minister disclosed that he was asked to have a “manly pep talk” with the duke of Sussex to argue it would be wrong to leave the U.K. for a […]
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer held a two-hour dinner with U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump in the first face-to-face meeting between the pair. The Labour leader and former president dined at Trump Tower in New York on Thursday night (early Friday morning in London) after Starmer delivered a speech at the U.N. General Assembly. The […]
LONDON — Former Tory Cabinet Minister and leading Brexit campaigner Michael Gove will be the next editor of Britain’s 200-year-old Spectator magazine. Gove, who stood down as an MP at the election earlier this year, takes over from Fraser Nelson, who has edited the magazine since 2009. It’s a major changing of the guard at […]