British politics

Tory leadership hopeful Liz Truss rebuffed after seeking LGBT endorsement

August 2, 2022 8:05 pm

Some LGBT+ Conservatives are concerned about Liz Truss’s position on trans rights.

The Palace of Westminster is falling down

August 2, 2022 4:03 am

The UK’s parliament is literally falling apart — and MPs can’t decide how to save it.

Boost for Liz Truss as ex-rival Penny Mordaunt backs her Tory leadership bid

August 1, 2022 8:40 pm

Mordaunt vied with Truss in the contest’s first stages, but is now rowing in behind her.

Boris Johnson: My removal was ‘greatest stitch-up since Bayeux Tapestry’

August 1, 2022 9:27 am

In wedding party speech, outgoing British PM also jokes that he got ‘masses of letters to resign, mostly from my closest family.’

One month on: 9 things we’ve learned since Britain’s Tories went into meltdown

August 1, 2022 4:05 am

Boris Johnson’s defenestration — and the race to replace him — has thrown up all sorts of surprises.

In Europe’s drug death capital, politicians plead for new powers to stem the tide

July 28, 2022 11:31 pm

Scotland’s fatal overdose rate casts a dark cloud over the independence debate.

Ukraine loses its best friend Boris. What happens next?

July 27, 2022 4:00 am

Boris Johnson’s imminent departure as UK prime minister has unnerved his allies in Kyiv.

UK Tory leadership TV debate cut short after moderator collapses on air

July 26, 2022 8:31 pm

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss seen rushing to help.

5 things we learned when Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak went head-to-head on primetime TV

July 26, 2022 2:31 am

The UK foreign secretary remains in pole position in the race for 10 Downing Street.

UK’s Tory hopefuls square up for primetime TV clash

July 25, 2022 4:02 am

Former Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s allies hope for a game-changer, but frontrunner Liz Truss is playing it cool.

Truss promises to scrap ‘outdated’ EU laws if elected Tory leader

July 23, 2022 11:30 am

UK foreign secretary promises “red tape bonfire” if she becomes prime minister.

What the UK needs from the next Conservative leader

July 23, 2022 1:07 am

The problem of the last few years isn’t that we made the wrong promises — it’s that we haven’t delivered on them.

11 times the UK Tory leadership race went completely nuts

July 22, 2022 4:04 am

From cheering the no-hopers to enjoying the performance art, Westminster watchers have never had it so good.

Liz Truss, comeback kid

July 20, 2022 11:54 pm

The UK foreign secretary is now the hot favorite to succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister.

Britain’s next prime minister will be Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss

July 20, 2022 5:06 pm

Penny Mordaunt out of the race for Tory leader as Sunak wins backing of 137 MPs and Truss bags 113 votes.

Boris Johnson’s parting shot: ‘Stay close to the Americans’

July 20, 2022 2:41 pm

‘Hasta la vista, baby,’ says the outgoing UK premier.

UK inflation hits 9.4 percent, a 40-year record

July 20, 2022 8:44 am

Fuel and food were the biggest factors behind the price jump.

‘Red Rishi’: Is a Brexit-backing Thatcherite too left-wing for the UK Conservatives?

July 20, 2022 4:03 am

Rishi Sunak’s popularity among party members has nosedived.

Been fired? Try Boris Johnson’s top tips for living your best life

July 20, 2022 4:03 am

Following your bliss with the ousted UK premier.

Liz Truss gains more ground in race for UK Tory leadership final

July 19, 2022 4:43 pm

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is the clear frontrunner as anti-woke Brexiteer Kemi Badenoch crashes out.

Liz Truss closes in on Penny Mordaunt in race to replace Boris Johnson

July 18, 2022 9:44 pm

Ex-chancellor Rishi Sunak still front-runner but foreign affairs expert Tom Tugendhat crashes out of the race.

Kemi Badenoch: The UK Conservative Party’s next leader-but-one?

July 18, 2022 4:03 am

Whatever happens in the leadership race, the former equalities minister now looks a shoo-in for a senior job.

Italy’s fantasy politics: A possible answer to the shamelessness of UK politics

July 18, 2022 4:02 am

The key to confronting this new culture of norms-busting may just lie in Fantacitorio, a game conceived to make sense of political absurdity.

Glamour with guns: Britain’s next prime minister could be Penny Mordaunt

July 15, 2022 4:00 am

… But only 1 in 5 British voters even know who she is.

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