Tag: Great Britain Withdrawal from EU (Brexit)

Kate Middleton’s Story Is About More Than Kate Middleton

“Where Is Kate Middleton?” yet another headline blared on Monday. The public speculation following her unspecified abdominal surgery, long withdrawal from appearances and dubious publicity photo has gotten so intense that reasonable people may want to roll their eyes and tune it out. Can’t we just wish her well and leave her alone? But the […]

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Theresa May, Former U.K. Prime Minister, Won’t Stand in Next Election

Theresa May, the former British prime minister whose time in Downing Street was scarred by a protracted battle over Brexit, is to leave Parliament at the next general election after 27 years as a lawmaker. With the Conservative Party trailing badly in opinion polls before an election that many analysts expect it to lose, Mrs. […]

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Northern Ireland Has a Sinn Fein Leader. It’s a Landmark Moment.

As Michelle O’Neill walked down the marble staircase in Northern Ireland’s Parliament building on the outskirts of Belfast on Saturday, she appeared confident and calm. She smiled as applause erupted from supporters in the balcony. Only the seriousness of her gaze conveyed the gravity of the moment. The political party she represents, Sinn Fein, was […]

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In Northern Ireland, a Knotty Brexit Problem Is on the Brink of Being Solved

Almost two years of political gridlock. Decision-making paralyzed. Rising tension in a place where peace remains fragile even after the end of decades of sectarian strife. There are few places where the impact of Britain’s exit from the European Union been felt more sharply than in Northern Ireland. But on Wednesday there were rising hopes […]

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Sunak’s Rwanda Immigration Plan Passes Vote in U.K. Parliament

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of Britain dodged a potentially dire threat to his leadership on Wednesday, preserving for now his beleaguered government’s immigration plan to put asylum seekers on one-way flights to Rwanda. In an effort to overcome resistance from British courts, the lawmakers in Parliament voted to back legislation declaring Rwanda a safe country […]

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A Pint of Wine? Britain Plans to Bring Back an Old-Fashioned Measure.

In 2024, the Brits will be able to drink like Winston Churchill again. The government announced on Wednesday that it would allow stores and pubs to sell pints of wine, famously said to be the former prime minister’s favorite quantity of champagne. What? But also, why? It’s a side effect of Brexit, Britain’s official exit […]

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Brexiteers Vowed to ‘Take Back Control’ of U.K. Borders. What Happened?

Inflammatory warnings from politicians. Knife-edge votes in Parliament. A looming election against a backdrop of national crisis. Britain’s ruling Conservative Party has been caught up in a clamorous debate over deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda, which has at times sounded like a not-so-distant echo of Brexit. Yet for all the fury it has generated, the […]

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What Kevin McCarthy and Rishi Sunak Have in Common: Unmanageable Parties

On Wednesday evening, a hard-line Conservative minister, Robert Jenrick, resigned from the British government to protest its new immigration policy. Hours later, in Washington, Kevin McCarthy, the California Republican toppled by his right-wing colleagues as House speaker in October, announced he would resign from Congress. A pair of bitter political exits, on opposite sides of […]

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A United Ireland May Be More Than a Dream

Before she died in 2013, Dolours Price, a Provisional Irish Republican Army guerrilla, started granting interviews. She described planting I.R.A. bombs and driving people to their executions, smuggling explosives and going on hunger strike in a British prison. But it was Ms. Price’s memories of girlhood in 1950s Northern Ireland that kept running through my […]

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