But it’s not as if he doesn’t have other work to do. Starmer was elected with a landslide in July on a promise to rebuild Britain after 14 years under the Conservatives. Years that saw the upheaval of Brexit, two referendums, five prime ministers, a pandemic, a war in Ukraine, rocketing immigration, a National Health … Read more
A former top Brussels politician has a message for the United Kingdom: You’re still in our hearts. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who was president of the European Council from 2014 and 2019 during much of the Brexit negotiations, made the wistful declaration in a post on social media Thursday. “We still miss you,” Tusk … Read more
POLAND’S prime minister has said it’s his “dream” for a “Breturn” instead of Brexit as he discussed a defence treaty with Sir Keir Starmer. Ex-president of the European Council Donald Tusk made the statement while hosting the PM for discussions on a UK-Polish defence pact in Warsaw. 6 Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said … Read more
But Murphy built a reputation for even-handedness and attention to detail during his previous career at Stormont, where he served as Mo Mowlam’s deputy as Northern Ireland secretary during the 1997-98 negotiation of the Good Friday deal. While the outspoken and eccentric Mowlam garnered the headlines, Murphy spent months away from the spotlight leading the … Read more
Prior to Brexit, Robbins had long been regarded by fellow officials in Whitehall as a high performer primed for the heights of Britain’s civil service, which prizes its impartiality and ability to serve governments of all stripes. But he returns bearing battle scars from serving as then-Prime Minister Theresa May’s Europe Adviser and the country’s chief Brexit negotiator from … Read more
Robinson was banned from Twitter in 2018 for violating its guidelines on “hateful content,” but his account was reinstated last year following Musk’s takeover and rebranding of the platform. He is currently serving an 18-month prison sentence for breaching a court order relating to false claims about a Syrian schoolboy he had made in a … Read more
The Congress of Deputies – the lower house of the Spanish parliament – has voted in favour of abolishing the Golden Visa programme, which will come as a major blow to many Brits wishing to settle in the country. The programme, launched in 2013, has allowed hundreds of Brits to move in the post-Brexit era … Read more
But to what extent this can be blamed on social media is still an open question. “Polarization,” once painted as a global crisis stemming from online platforms, now looks more like a product of the highly idiosyncratic political and media culture in the U.S. One recent study found that polarization stayed the same or decreased … Read more
Britain’s new government spent most of the fall bogged down in questions over where it stands on EU demands for a youth mobility scheme — which Brussels sees as essential to the reset. The young Labour administration is worried the idea smells too much like EU migration, a difficult political issue in Britain. It hasn’t … Read more
LONDON — There wasn’t a great deal of time for reading in Westminster this year. Labour’s election supermajority, dramas over freebies and staff, war everywhere, a tax-hiking budget, and a heap of missions, milestones, foundations, pillars and steps kept Britain’s politicians on their toes. But, thankfully, some of Westminster’s finest still managed to steal a … Read more
