In the wake of the announcement a general election will be held in Britain in July, the royal family has said it is postponing public engagements to stop them clashing with voting campaigns.
A fundraiser last week suggests that Rishi Sunak may have given up on winning the election
Eight years ago on Sunday, we went to vote in the Brexit referendum. Let’s not forget that most of our rulers never wanted it in the first place. It only happened because of the campaigning of Nigel Farage and Ukip and the determination of a bunch of Tory MPs like Sir Bill Cash. It became the largest act of democracy, and indeed the largest vote for anything, in British history.
Emmanuel Macron has driven his country to the brink of a “Frexit” moment, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator has said.
There are few more depressing TV programmes than Question Time. But every few years, it comes into its own. In election campaigns it ditches the panel and has individual party leaders. And there is something about this format, in which normal(ish) people grill the leaders directly, that almost always leads to them blurting out something they really didn’t want to say.
New poll shows the result of the 2016 Brexit referendum has been reversed.
“All right. There you have it,” said The Good Liars comedian Jason Selvig after the MAGA voter dropped the bombshell confession and then silently turned away.
Mona Mahmoudi’s parents were among the first members of Iran’s Baha’i religious minority to be executed under the Islamic Republic’s decades-long crackdown.
On D-Day, the anniversary of which we just commemorated, the Allies knew the location of the Nazi defences thanks to the French Resistance. Now, Ukrainian resistance groups are playing pivotal roles in similar, albeit smaller, operations, enabling the Ukrainian Armed Forces to halt and, in places, turn back the Russian war machine. Their D-Day, however, is yet to come.
It has begun. While Europe has been obsessing over elections in France and Britain, and officials in Brussels are haggling in back rooms over who gets the top jobs in the EU, something far more important has been happening. A full-scale trade war has started with China.
While the rest of us were watching in horror as three separate polls spelled out disaster for the party, on Wednesday afternoon Angela Richardson, the Conservative Party’s deputy chairman, tried to persuade us that there was nothing to worry about.
Ex-Labour leader Mr Corbyn is close to pulling off a shock win in Islington North, according to a poll
Nigel Farage’s analysis of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine could hardly be more wrong. He claims that Nato and EU expansion was provocative. In fact it was Western weakness and timidity that encouraged Putin’s aggression in 2022. Rather than making any attempt to oppose Russia’s seizure of Crimea in 2014, or helping Ukraine to do so, Western governments called on Kyiv to take no action that might lead to escalation. In spirit, it was a foreshadowing of Joe Biden’s offer in February 2022 to
As Boris Johnson is hoped to help boost the Tories' election hopes, Yahoo asked our readers whether they think he will do that or not.
The prime minister repeatedly dodged questions on how deep the scandal goes.
Don’t blame me for telling the truth about Putin’s war in Ukraine. Facing up the facts about the mistakes of the past has to be the first step towards the peaceful future we all want to see.
The wife of a chief constable who was sacked for lying about his military service has revealed that she reported him after feeling “sickened” at the disrespect he had shown genuine veterans.
Analysts at the Institute for the Study of War think tank called the use of the FAB-3000 bomb a "significant development" for Russia.
“I could not believe what I was hearing. It was surreal," Ricardo Rosselló wrote of his 2017 exchange with Trump following Hurricane Maria.
The first time I heard Rishi Sunak’s name was from William Hague, in Pushkar’s Indian restaurant in Birmingham. It was almost ten years ago, at a dinner for the outgoing Foreign Secretary that some of us had thrown for him during the Tory party conference. Hague, who was stepping down, was purring in delight about his newly- selected successor in his North Yorkshire seat of Richmond.
Andrew Bailey’s lawsuit targets New York attorney general and Manhattan DA, who both secured Trump convictions
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