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A Japanese pause

A Japanese pause

Sky News’ deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico’s Jack Blanchard with their guide to the election day ahead. This is day 34 of the campaign. Jack …

June 25, 2024 8:28 pm CET
UK Labour candidate suspended after … betting he would lose
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Nigel Farage ‘parroting Putin’s lies’ on Ukraine, says Boris Johnson
Sunak, Starmer slam Farage claim that EU, NATO ‘provoked’ invasion of Ukraine
Britain’s luxury carmakers fear Chinese trade war
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UK election latest: Farage says EU provoked Ukraine war

Latest updates as Reform UK leader is grilled and Conservatives continue to reel from betting scandal.

June 21, 2024 7:00 am CET

The crisis Britain’s politicians are too scared to discuss

Voters may want social care to be on the ballot at the UK general election, but no one seems to be listening.

June 21, 2024 4:01 am CET

Ireland is dreaming of a UK Labour landslide

Irish eyes are smiling at the prospect of Keir Starmer in Downing Street surrounded by Irish-savvy aides.

June 21, 2024 4:00 am CET
Analysis

Rishi Sunak was a broken man on BBC Question Time

As the leaders of the main UK parties faced a studio audience, a hangdog prime minister fighting for reelection looked like he was preparing for the end.

June 21, 2024 12:06 am CET

I could work with a far-right French government: Slovenian finance minister

Klemen Boštjančič happy to work with National Rally and says U.S. election is “not that important” compared with what’s happening in Europe.

June 20, 2024 6:38 pm CET

Betting scandal engulfs UK election

Conservative figures are accused of betting on the timing of the snap election. The scandal couldn’t come at a worse moment for Rishi Sunak.

June 20, 2024 2:13 pm CET

Scorched-earth summer: Biden, Sunak and Macron go negative

Struggling leaders in America, Britain and France are bombarding their political opponents, some of whom are testing the bounds of the mainstream.

June 20, 2024 6:45 am CET

Shut up and listen: The election ‘fixer’ has some advice for Biden, Macron and Sunak

Election fever is gripping both sides of the North Atlantic. As Britain heads into the final weeks of a long election campaign, French voters face a snap …

June 20, 2024 6:00 am CET
The Home Front

Britain struggles to reform its ‘feudal’ housing system  

Big changes to the centuries-old model of property ownership still look far off, even with Labour poised for an election win.

June 20, 2024 4:00 am CET

5 lessons for the Tory (and Labour) campaigns from Obama’s election guru

One of the brains behind David Cameron’s surprise Tory victory in 2015 has words of advice for Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer.

June 20, 2024 4:00 am CET

Britain’s getting more corrupt. Will kicking the Tories out help?

Labour is talking a good game on cleaning up Westminster as an election looms — but the U.K. has a long history of opposition parties promising the earth.

June 20, 2024 4:00 am CET

The Nigel Farage effect is real

Conservatives lose out while Farage’s Reform UK is projected to win 5 seats in latest in-depth model.

June 19, 2024 8:35 pm CET
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UK hits 2 percent inflation target 

The metric bolsters a beleaguered Conservative party that had made inflation a central issue ahead of the July 4 election.

June 19, 2024 8:09 am CET

Rishi Sunak’s California escape hatch: His $7.2M beach home

The UK leader’s luxe penthouse and deep California ties have fueled speculation about where he could land if he winds up out of office.

June 19, 2024 7:07 am CET

Brexit godfather slams ‘joke’ Farage

Euroskeptic Bill Cash is leaving Westminster after 40 years. In a POLITICO interview, he swipes at Reform leader Farage — and says parliament’s role in Brexit shouldn’t be overlooked.

June 18, 2024 6:39 pm CET

5 people the Tories are blaming for a Labour ‘supermajority’

Keir Starmer’s Britain will mean prisoners, teenagers and Vladimir Putin stealing from your grandma for decades. Maybe.

June 18, 2024 11:56 am CET

British ex-pats in no hurry to sign up for election vote

Predicted flood of new ex-pat voters fails to materialize ahead of registration deadline in UK election.

June 18, 2024 4:01 am CET

Scotland’s independence warriors could be the UK election’s biggest losers

Model suggests the once-dominant Scottish National Party could lose 64.6 percent of the total seats it won in 2019 — an even higher share than the dire night projected for the Conservatives.

June 17, 2024 4:01 am CET

Betrayal on Britain’s south coast

Voters say they feel let down by Conservatives on immigration, public services and the supposed benefits of Brexit.

June 17, 2024 4:00 am CET

How Brexit’s fallout doomed climate action in Northern Ireland

Politicians shut down the Stormont Assembly for two years. Among the casualties: Northern Ireland’s hopes of greening its economy.

June 16, 2024 6:00 pm CET

The Greens want to be Britain’s new left-wing force

The Greens’ election manifesto is packed with policies designed to appeal to left-leaning voters disaffected with the Labour Party.

June 13, 2024 11:00 pm CET

Fully updated: Our Labour policy tracker

Absolutely everything you need to know about what the opposition party is promising ahead of the July 4 election.

June 13, 2024 7:44 pm CET

5 takeaways from Labour’s ‘Captain Caution’ manifesto

Keir Starmer is promising change from 14 years of Tory government. In fiscal terms, it’s not so much — for now.

June 13, 2024 7:34 pm CET

‘Battered’ Brits want to hold Tories to account, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt admits

He also concedes the government failed to end irregular migration routes, one of its core pledges.

June 13, 2024 4:03 am CET
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