Brexit fractured the European Union, and it broke British politics. The country is about to get its seventh prime minister ...

TWO OF THE most entertaining British political diarists of recent times, Gyles Brandreth and Alan Clark, both Conservative MPs, once sat down in the House of Commons tearoom to draw up a list of ...

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British politics has become increasingly volatile and fragmented, with no party able to command the substantial backing of the public that was once routine. The results from England’s local elections ...

Rosa Prince is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering UK politics and policy. She was formerly an editor and writer at Politico and the Daily Telegraph, and is the author of "Comrade Corbyn" and ...

BRITISH elections have been shaped by two long-term trends. Voters have become more volatile: more than four in ten switched their allegiance between the general elections of 2019 and 2024, the ...

The debate comes after a petition expressed concern over Israeli lobbies’ influence in the UK.

At around 19 years old, Larry the Cat has become something of a British institution. Officially known as the "Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office", he has spent more than a decade and a half at the ...

Any poll must be taken as a snapshot in time, rather than an exhaustive evaluation of the present moment. In politics, it is the trend that matters, and the trend is clear here in the U.K.: Nigel ...

A Labour Party deputy who spent years in opposition, he criticized Conservatives and members of his own party, and was at the heart of major political moments. By Alan Cowell Roy Hattersley, a Labour ...

In public, Christian Turner is the perfect entertainer. The new British ambassador to the United States used his welcome party in February to toast an embarrassing British defeat (also known as the ...