This Month
- Analysis
- UK politics
Brits regret Brexit, but can the country turn back?
Boris Johnson ‘got Brexit done’, but most Brits now seem to wish he hadn’t. Polls show more people see it as a failure, and would even vote to rejoin the EU.
- Hans van Leeuwen
New French PM under pressure to suspend immigration
Michel Barnier is being propped up by Marine Le Pen of the hard Right, who said she supported the three- to five-year moratorium he proposed in 2021.
- Vivian Song
Macron turns to veteran Brexit hardman as French PM
The French president, boxed in by the parliamentary deadlock he created via a snap election in June, has named 73-year-old Michel Barnier as prime minister.
- Hans van Leeuwen
July
How the Olympics will change Paris
After a divisive election, this northern summer’s Games will fire the starting gun on a vast project to transform the French capital.
- Simon Kuper
Von der Leyen and Starmer plan meeting to drive UK-EU ‘reset’
Britain’s new PM is seeking better trade terms with the EU, while chancellor Rachel Reeves has suggested the UK could align with EU regulations in some areas.
- Andy Bounds and George Parker
Britain’s ultra-rich ‘non-doms’ prepare to flee Labour tax rise
Living in the UK but not legally domiciled, they pay more than £8 billion in taxes a year, and now Keir Starmer’s new government plans to increase their levies.
- Ben Stupples
Britain’s foreign secretary hates Trump and loves America
The child of Caribbean immigrants, David Lammy befriended Barack Obama on his rise through politics – and developed a dislike for the Republican nominee.
- Marie Le Conte
- Opinion
- World elections
Europe now leaderless as global threats rise
President Emmanuel Macron’s authority in Europe has shrunk after chaotic national elections, while the UK’s influence has been hobbled by Brexit.
- Gideon Rachman
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Economic logic always trumps junk politics
Brexit, MAGA trade policies, and the Coalition’s nuclear power push will fail because they make no economic sense.
- Craig Emerson
- Opinion
- UK election
Starmer can help Britain redeem itself
With a towering majority, a well-disciplined team and a ruthless instinct for power, Keir Starmer can restore some of the respect the Tories destroyed.
- Adrian Wooldridge
- Analysis
- UK election
Gaza backlash and other key lessons from UK’s election
Gaza has shaken up the left, populism is shaking up the right. Labour’s majority is less secure than it seems, but Keir Starmer’s dullness could be an asset.
- Updated
- Hans van Leeuwen
- Analysis
- World elections
Why Starmer should now play prosecutor on Brexit
Labour and the Tories have avoided the topic, but a full audit of the impact of leaving the EU would deliver political and economic benefits to incoming ministers.
- Robert Shrimsley
Boris Johnson in surprise late move to avert Tory wipeout
Making his first public appearance of the campaign, the former prime minister said Labour would “destroy so much of what we have achieved”.
- Alex Wickham
Why angry Britain will this week finally dump the Tories
Five PMs, five elections and a three-ring circus: over 14 years, the Conservative government sowed the seeds of its own downfall – and leaves a mixed legacy.
- Hans van Leeuwen
June
A very British paper is forced to cover a scandal: its own
The discovery of $500 million missing from The Telegraph newspaper marks the end of the owners’ two decades of influence over British politics.
- Aaron Patrick
- Opinion
- US election
Why billionaires support Trump
Business people struggle to understand fanaticism. In commercial life, all actors are negotiable, even if their price is high. They also tend to overrate contrarianism.
- Janan Ganesh
Even Rishi Sunak could lose his seat, according to some polls
Seat-by-seat analysis by Savanta and Electoral Calculus found the Tories are on track to win just 53 seats in next month’s vote, an all-time low for the party.
- Alex Morales
Nigel Farage’s party overtakes Tories in UK poll blow
Right-wing Reform UK provides a symbolic ‘crossover moment’ in support that Conservative strategists have been fearing for months.
- Alex Wickham
- Opinion
- World elections
Starmer will be centrism’s last chance
Voters need to see normal politics working for them again. Keir Starmer not only carries the dreams of a country demanding change but the hope of all who fear what follows if he fails.
- Robert Shrimsley
- Opinion
- Workplace
Why workers are shunning plum foreign postings
Some companies have found that the impact of the pandemic has intensified a reluctance to move abroad for work.
- Pilita Clark
