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Labour steals Tory playbook for financial blame game

Labour steals Tory playbook for financial blame game

Labour, with an eye on the next election, wants voters to hear that the public finances are worse than they thought — so blame the Tories for higher taxes.

July 28, 2024 5:38 pm CET
UK drops objection to ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu
A £2M Brexit border post has performed just two checks
Germany wants a Brexit mega deal

Germany wants a Brexit mega deal

July 25, 2024 6:02 pm CET
Labour’s climate plan: build, baby, build
The great Tory beauty pageant

The great Tory beauty pageant

July 25, 2024 4:00 am CET
Former MEP set to become first minister of Wales
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Britain and Germany team up on defense as fears grow Trump will ditch Ukraine

Britain’s new Labour government is seeking deeper military ties with Germany and France.

July 24, 2024 2:30 pm CET

PMQs scorecard: Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak play nice

Keir Starmer faced awkward questions at PMQs — but not from Rishi Sunak.

July 24, 2024 2:17 pm CET

Uniformed British soldier stabbed multiple times in street attack

Prime Minister Keir Starmer ‘shocked’ by attack which police say they do not believe was terror-related.

July 24, 2024 11:41 am CET

The time Kamala Harris upset the Brits

The probable Democratic presidential candidate ruffled feathers when she visited Britain back in November.

July 22, 2024 7:57 pm CET

Starmer says UK will work with whoever wins US election, declines to back Harris

“It’s for the American people to decide who they want for their president.”

July 22, 2024 1:02 pm CET

The UK has a new government — let the lobbying commence

British lobbyists have launched a schmooze offensive as they try to capture the attention of Labour’s greenhorn contingent.

July 22, 2024 4:01 am CET

Zelenskyy calls on Starmer to approve missiles

Ukraine leader is first to address a U.K. Cabinet meeting since Bill Clinton.

July 19, 2024 1:46 pm CET

Sorry, Boris — Nigel Farage is still Britain’s Trump Whisperer

In Milwaukee, the battle for Donald Trump’s attention is heating up and Brits want in.

July 19, 2024 4:00 am CET

Starmer and Macron: New allies heading in different directions

A U.K. Foreign Office aide said the French president was pleased by how the Brits handled his brainchild summit.

July 18, 2024 10:52 pm CET

Britain’s Keir Starmer vows: I’ll never leave ECHR

The European Political Community is gathering in Blenheim, Oxfordshire.

July 18, 2024 2:31 pm CET

Me and J.D. Vance are just the same, says Britain’s left-wing foreign secretary

David Lammy insists he “gets on” with Donald Trump’s controversial new running mate.

July 18, 2024 11:36 am CET

UK ‘nowhere near’ renegotiating trade deal with EU, says David Lammy

The British foreign secretary’s comments come as leaders descend on Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire for a meeting of the European Political Community.

July 18, 2024 11:36 am CET
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UK’s Labour to reintroduce tobacco ban

The Tobacco and Vapes Bill would ban anyone born after January 2009 from buying cigarettes.

July 17, 2024 5:51 pm CET

The 7 gaping holes in Keir Starmer’s plan for government

The king’s speech set out UK Labour’s plan for government. Here’s what’s not in it.

July 17, 2024 1:01 pm CET

King’s Speech: What Labourism will look like

Sky News’ deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico’s Jack Blanchard are here with their guide to the day ahead in politics. Today is the first King’s …

July 17, 2024 9:33 am CET

‘Is that it?’ UK Labour’s cautious entry to government

Few surprises are expected when Keir Starmer sets out his program in the king’s speech.

July 17, 2024 4:01 am CET

Trump adviser Fiona Hill to lead UK defense review 

Former NATO boss George Robertson will head the project to consider how and when to boost military spending.

July 16, 2024 4:54 pm CET

What JD Vance really thinks about Europe

Donald Trump’s pick for vice president is an Orbán fan who thinks Germany is “idiotic” and the U.K. may be an “Islamist” state.

July 16, 2024 2:13 pm CET

Welsh leader Vaughan Gething quits after four months

The Labour first minister’s short leadership of Wales was a turbulent one

July 16, 2024 1:07 pm CET

Trump’s VP pick J.D. Vance called U.K. ‘Islamist country’

New Labour government figures had made overtures to Donald Trump’s running mate — and have rejected his suggestion.

July 16, 2024 12:44 pm CET

Attack on Donald Trump strikes fear into European hearts

Fears of political violence are simmering just beneath the surface in Europe, too.

July 16, 2024 4:01 am CET

Von der Leyen will skip Britain’s biggest European summit in years

New U.K. leader Keir Starmer is hosting the European Political Community this week. EU officials wish he weren’t. 

July 15, 2024 9:00 pm CET

What Washington thinks of Keir Starmer

After years of Conservative turmoil, the new British prime minister has been welcomed by Democrats and Republicans alike.

July 15, 2024 4:00 am CET

Ukraine’s former top general starts new gig as UK envoy

General Valeriy Zaluzhny is a household name in Ukraine.

July 12, 2024 5:25 pm CET
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