UK politics

[LONDON] Britain’s interior minister on Sunday defended plans to drastically reduce protections for refugees and end automatic benefits for asylum seekers, insisting that irregular migration was “tear...

ALLIES of Keir Starmer sought to ward off a feared leadership challenge from one of the British premier’s best-known ministers, as cabinet feuds spilled into the open just weeks before the government ...

[LONDON] UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer backed his finance minister on Thursday after she admitted to making an “inadvertent mistake” when renting out her family home, in the latest setback for his em...

[LONDON] British finance minister Rachel Reeves should raise taxes by a lot in next month’s budget to exit the “Groundhog Day scenario” of continuously having to find measures to patch up the public f...

[LIVERPOOL] British Prime Minister Keir Starmer urged his Labour Party on Sunday to stop “navel gazing” and unite against Reform UK, accusing the rising populist party of planning a “racist policy” of...

[LONDON] British finance minister Rachel Reeves faces an “impossible trilemma” of big tax hikes, spending cuts or a change to fiscal rules that she has said are non-negotiable, a leading think tank sa...

This would align voting rights across the UK with Scotland and Wales

GERMAN Chancellor Friedrich Merz makes his first official visit to the United Kingdom on Thursday (Jul 17) to sign a landmark bilateral friendship deal. The agreement confirms not only warmer economic...

This milestone has the potential to be a tipping point as the government seeks to reset itself after an uneven 12 months in power