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Tony Blair’s ‘Prince of Darkness’ tipped to be UK’s man in DC

Tony Blair’s ‘Prince of Darkness’ tipped to be UK’s man in DC

Peter Mandelson could be heading Stateside after a long and notorious career in British public life.

November 15, 2024 4:01 am CET
UK won’t weaken food standards to land a Trump trade deal, minister says
Send in the king! How Britain can dodge a Donald Trump trade war
Trump victory could torpedo UK’s Chagos Islands deal
Squid games: The next Brexit battleground

Squid games: The next Brexit battleground

November 12, 2024 4:02 am CET
Britain’s hunt for a Trump whisperer

Britain’s hunt for a Trump whisperer

November 7, 2024 4:00 am CET
Boris Johnson ‘fired’ from US election show for plugging his book
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Kemi Badenoch is new leader of Britain’s Conservative Party

Former business secretary now heads up the main opposition.

November 2, 2024 12:22 pm CET

How Brexit helped Britain lose the Chagos Islands

After more than half a century, the U.K. is passing sovereignty of the disputed territory back to Mauritius. Why now?

November 1, 2024 4:20 am CET

Leaked EU document: Visas for under-30s ‘essential’ to Brexit reset

It’s the latest sign the idea is still very much in Brussels’ sights — despite British pushback.

October 30, 2024 4:19 am CET

What Boris Johnson can teach the EU about restoring nature

The European Commission hopes capitalism can help solve the biodiversity crisis. Britain might have the answer.

October 28, 2024 4:20 am CET

King Charles and Keir Starmer, Britain’s newest diplomatic double act

Two men, worlds apart, are flying the flag in Samoa. But there’s more to connect the monarch and new UK PM than meets the eye.

October 25, 2024 7:00 am CET

Who’s going to pay for moving drug production to Europe?

Bringing drug production closer to home means reckoning with costs.

October 23, 2024 6:00 am CET

Keir Starmer’s biggest enemy: The great-crested newt

The UK prime minister is going for growth. That means a fight with the green lobby.

October 22, 2024 4:25 am CET

Britain’s heading for a nuclear power crunch. Blame the French.

A once proud fleet of power plants is about to be reduced to one last, lonely nuke.

October 21, 2024 4:34 am CET

Inside the UK’s dirtiest (and dumbest) political battle in years

“House of Cards” for amateurs: How the brutal fight for the Tory leadership lurched into chaos and recrimination.

October 17, 2024 4:00 am CET

Drop funding for massacre-linked gas project or face legal trouble, UK warned

Campaign group Friends of the Earth warns ministers that continued support for the project would be ‘unlawful.’

October 16, 2024 3:29 pm CET

Boris Johnson offered to set Javier Milei up with Mick Jagger, report says

Argentina’s chainsaw-wielding president can’t get no satisfaction.

October 16, 2024 12:01 pm CET

Eurocrats can’t read Boris Johnson’s memoir because of … Brexit

“It’s ironic,” says Brussels bookseller.

October 14, 2024 11:54 am CET
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Boris Johnson says Joe Biden’s ‘not really Irish’

The claims keep coming from the former prime minister’s memoir.

October 11, 2024 2:57 pm CET

100 days of Starmer: How Labour’s big win went off the rails

After just a few months in office, the new British government is finding life tough.

October 11, 2024 4:00 am CET

Boris Johnson defends Donald Trump over Jan. 6 riots

Former prime minister says Trump oversaw the “peaceful transfer of democratic power” despite challenging the 2020 election result.

October 10, 2024 11:11 am CET

Everyone Boris Johnson throws under the bus to sell his new book

The former prime minister has axes to grind with political foes, world leaders — and even the Great British public.

October 10, 2024 1:01 am CET

Revealed: Liz Truss lobbied for UK role in project now linked to Mozambique massacre

In the summer of 2020 Britain’s then-trade secretary defied her Cabinet colleagues to secure financial support for the controversial development.

October 9, 2024 4:25 am CET

Brexit ‘reset’ won’t include financial services

Britain’s economic powerhouse the City of London is being left out — again — even as EU and UK relations thaw.

October 9, 2024 4:25 am CET

Downing Street was a crack den when I got there, says Boris Johnson

Former prime minister insists the building wasn’t up to scratch when questioned about controversial refurb work.

October 8, 2024 12:09 pm CET

Keir Starmer’s reset shows his premiership is already in crisis

Less than 100 days after taking office, the Labour prime minister has already been forced to shake up his team.

October 8, 2024 4:01 am CET

Boris Johnson: I’m sorry I said sorry for Partygate scandal

Johnson said his “blanket apology” for rule-breaking pandemic parties had been a mistake.

October 4, 2024 6:36 pm CET

The Labour-linked lobbying firm boasting invite-only access to the UK Treasury

Arden Strategies have gained a reputation as a power player in the new U.K. regime.

October 4, 2024 4:20 am CET

Netanyahu bugged my bathroom, Boris Johnson suggests

Ex-prime minister says his security team “found a listening device in the thunderbox” after the Israeli PM visited.

October 3, 2024 6:46 pm CET

BBC cancels primetime Boris Johnson interview after journalist gaffe

Corporation said the error made the program promoting Johnson’s book “untenable.”

October 3, 2024 10:51 am CET
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