For Robert Hutton's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Boris Johnson was defeated in Parliament on Saturday. But an analysis of that vote, and the comments its members made in the run-up, suggests the prime minister still has a chance of getting his Brexit deal done. Ministers of Parliament voted by 322 to 306 ...
Members of Britain's Parliament delivered a sharp warning to the country's next prime minister: They will not allow him to pursue a no-deal Brexit without a fight. In a dramatic result Tuesday evening, MPs narrowly passed a measure aimed at stopping the U.K.'s future leader ...
Boris Johnson will face his successor as foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, in the final Conservative Party showdown to determine who takes over from Prime Minister Theresa May. Their visions for Brexit are similar: Both want to deliver on the referendum result of 2016, both want ...
Faced with a Brexit vote she cannot win, Prime Minister Theresa May appears to be gambling that running down the clock to a no-deal departure might change the arithmetic in Parliament. Less than 24 hours after Environment Secretary Michael Gove insisted the vote on May's ...
British Prime Minister Theresa May is defying demands to quit as she battles to keep control of her fractious government long enough to deliver a Brexit deal that has drawn ire from across the political spectrum. Facing a revolt over her proposed exit agreement with ...
British Prime Minister Theresa May looked likely to survive any attempt to oust her over the government's Brexit strategy for now, and is leaning on the biggest opposition party to help get the plan through parliament and counter a mutiny by a group of ...
If Theresa May has gotten any sleep in the past 24 hours, her spokesman wouldn't know; he never asks. The 60-year-old prime minister was kept informed of events in Manchester all through Monday night. At 4 a.m., she called Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn to ...
Japan warned British Prime Minister Theresa May that her government must improve its communications about Brexit, or risk endangering inward investment in the U.K. Days after May pulled out the stops to persuade Nissan Motor Co. to continue building cars at its plant in Sunderland, ...
