After a decade in the political wasteland, members of Britain’s main opposition Labour Party have chosen a moderate, unflashy lawyer as their new leader. Their hope is that turning the page on the socialist radical Jeremy Corbyn, who was resoundingly rejected by voters last ...
New U.K. Labour leader Keir Starmer to work with Johnson on coronavirus
Britain’s opposition Labour Party elected Keir Starmer as leader, putting a moderate lawyer with an eye for detail in charge as Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s handling of the coronavirus comes under fire. Starmer said he would "engage constructively” with Johnson’s Conservative Party where in the ...
Britain's new government is taking aim at the BBC, accusing it of bias in reporting the recently concluded elections that gave Prime Minister Boris Johnson a sweeping mandate. The row over perceived partiality from the corporation and ensuing threats about its license fee funding have ...
U.K. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to quit as crushing defeat looms
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Friday he would step down as his party faced its worst electoral defeat in 84 years, but he did not set a date for his departure and added he would remain in charge during a period of reflection. An ...
Battle for Brexit over with crushing victory by Boris Johnson's Conservatives
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Friday that voters had given his government a "powerful new mandate" to take Britain out of the EU next month as he headed for victory in a landmark election. With about 600 of 650 seats declared, Johnson's Conservatives secured the ...
Polls tighten on eve of British election seen as key vote on Brexit
Britain's political party leaders on Wednesday criss-crossed the country in a frantic last-minute push for votes, after polls predicted a tight finish to a highly charged general election aimed at settling the long-running Brexit crisis. Polls open on Thursday for the third time in four ...
U.K.'s Labour accuses BBC of bias over its election coverage
Britain's opposition Labour Party wrote to the head of the BBC on Thursday to complain about its coverage of campaigning ahead of next week's election, accusing the publicly funded broadcaster of bias. Labour's co-campaign coordinator, Andrew Gwynne, said they had recorded numerous examples where his ...
U.K. Liberal Democrats could back Labour to force second Brexit vote
The leader of Britain's pro-European Liberal Democrats has suggested she could work with the opposition Labour party to stop Brexit if it removed its leader in the event of a hung Parliament after next week's election. Jo Swinson repeated her pledge not to put either ...
Scotland threatens Boris Johnson's election dream
Surprise victories in Scotland helped save the Conservative Party in the 2017 election but U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is in danger of losing those gains next week, forcing him to look elsewhere for a parliamentary majority. "This time is going to be very, very ...
U.K.'s Johnson to declare Britain can 'end the groundhoggery of Brexit' if he wins election
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will on Wednesday declare that the U.K. can "end the groundhoggery of Brexit" if he wins next month's election, saying the rest of the world was wondering why so much time has been spent agonizing over whether to leave ...
Hackers attempt to take down U.K. Labour Party's web services ahead of election
Hackers attacked Britain's opposition Labour Party, bombarding its web services with malicious traffic in an attempt to force them offline just weeks ahead of a national election, party and security officials said on Tuesday, "We have experienced a sophisticated and large-scale cyberattack on Labour digital ...
EU set to delay Brexit after Boris Johnson defeated in Parliament
Prime Minister Boris Johnson's defining mission to take the U.K. out of the European Union in nine days' time was derailed as members of Parliament dramatically blocked his plan to rush the Brexit deal into law. European Council President Donald Tusk responded by saying he ...
