LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Labour Party headed for a landslide victory in a parliamentary election on Thursday, an exit poll suggested, as voters punished the governing Conservatives after 14 years of ...
The poll released moments after voting closed indicated that center-left Labour’s leader Keir Starmer will be the country’s next prime minister. A jaded electorate looks to have delivered a historic ...
The next British prime minister will be Keir Starmer, from the center-left Labour Party, who spoke early this morning. INSKEEP: Literally true. There's no transition in the U.K. He becomes prime ...
Britain is, in general, ruled by the Conservative Party for a simple reason: small-“c” conservative voters unite behind one party, whereas progressive voters split themselves across many parties.
This week, Keir Starmer announced that Britain would recognize a Palestinian state in September, if Israel doesn’t agree to a cease-fire first. Starmer’s arrogant posture — teasing the idea that the ...
Listen to more stories on the Noa app. The last time Britain traded a Conservative government for a Labour one, back in 1997, the mood was so buoyant that the new prime minister, Tony Blair, declared: ...
Much of the Labour Government has already attacked Donald Trump - Brian Snyder/REUTERS Foreign interventions in elections or referenda rarely end well for the interventionists. In 2016, then US ...
Brexit and immigration upended their 14-year reign — setting the stage for a pitched battle to remake British conservatism. Credit...Photo illustration by Matt Chase Supported by By Mark Landler Mark ...
In 1956 Anthony Crosland, a Labour Party thinker, called for “a brighter, more colourful country”. It was not enough, he wrote, for a Labour government merely to increase exports or old-age pensions.
LONDON − He tells his team setbacks are part of the journey. He extolls the importance of resilience. Champions, he says in a clipped English accent that denotes "posh gent," keep pushing forward. But ...
How do you distill the hopes and dreams of nearly one million supporters, build a political party that accurately reflects them, and do so in a matter of months? With its founding conference imminent, ...
Quentin Letts is parliamentary sketch writer for London’s Daily Mail. Britain’s battered Conservatives have a new leader: Kemi Badenoch, a computer engineer who spent her childhood in Nigeria.