Since the British Labour Party’s shattering defeat in last week’s general election, many people, myself included, have been thinking through its implications for the left, and especially for the ...
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Success stories in the British economy have been rare of late. But there is one notable exception: the boom in selling services abroad. Over the past decade, Britain’s services exports have grown by ...
It isn’t an exaggeration to say that the 2019 General Election was a disaster for the British left. All the gains made in the euphoric and entirely unexpected hung parliament of 2017, in which the ...
For a brief moment, it seemed that the years-long, acrimonious public fallout over antisemitism in the Labour Party was finally being put to rest. The election of Keir Starmer as party leader in early ...
Britain’s stock and bond markets flopped Friday morning on new evidence that the country’s Labour Party leadership doesn’t have a clue what to do about the economy or budget. Add this to the list of ...
Andy Burnham Becomes British Labour Leader; Next Stop — Prime Minister By Elizabeth Piper, Alistair Smout and Andrew MacAskill LONDON, July 17 (Reuters) - Andy Burnham, nicknamed the "King of the ...
Andy Burnham was elected as leader of Britain's Labour Party, taking another step towards becoming prime minister. Burnham was elected at a "special conference" on Friday as the current British prime ...
LONDON—In just the past week, Tory former Prime Minister Boris Johnson was forced to resign his seat in Parliament rather than cooperate with an investigation of his misdeeds as prime minister, a ...
Much of the British political establishment’s stance on Palestine, including that of the Labour Party, is and has always been morally corrupt. More than a century ago, in 1917, the United Kingdom ...
With more American troops arriving in Eastern Europe, NATO has bolstered its defensive positions around Ukraine—while Moscow has been warned the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline deal will be cancelled if it ...
London ― Andy Burnham, nicknamed the "King of the North", was elected leader of Britain's governing Labour Party on Friday, the final step before becoming its seventh prime minister in a decade on a ...