Tag: Starmer, Keir

Conservatives Suffer Setback in Parliamentary Election in Britain

Britain’s governing Conservative Party has lost the first of two parliamentary elections in a new blow to its embattled leader, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, whose future has been questioned by critics within his fractious political party. The Conservatives were defeated in Kingswood, near Bristol, by 8,675 to 11,176 votes, losing a seat that the party […]

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The U.K. Labour Party’s Worst Enemy Might Be Itself

These days, the only thing that can stop the Labour Party, it seems, is the Labour Party. For more than a year, the leader of Britain’s main opposition party, Keir Starmer, has sat on a double-digit lead in the polls over the Conservative Party. But a pair of embarrassing suspensions of Labour parliamentary candidates for […]

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Britain Is Lobbying U.S. Republicans on Ukraine. Here’s Why.

When David Cameron, Britain’s foreign secretary and onetime prime minister, visited Washington last month, he took time out to press the case for backing Ukraine with Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, the far-right Georgia Republican who stridently opposes further American military aid to the country. Last week, Boris Johnson, another former prime minister, argued that the […]

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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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Playing for Time, U.K. Leader Sets Up Chance of U.S. Election Overlap

When Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said this week that he was not likely to call a general election in Britain before the second half of the year, he was trying to douse fevered speculation that he might go to the voters as early as May. But in doing so, he set up another tantalizing prospect: […]

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In Britain, Reality Is Cleaving in Two

In Britain, Armistice Day is usually an understated affair, marked only by two minutes of silence at 11 a.m. This year was considerably more eventful, as two very different protests descended on London. One, composed of hundreds of thousands of people calling for a cease-fire in Gaza, snaked peacefully through the west of the city […]

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Rishi Sunak, Britain’s Prime Minister, Is Probably Doomed

There’s an argument that any leader would struggle with the conditions Mr. Sunak inherited: high inflation, increased borrowing costs and low growth. Across the world, incumbent governments of all stripes are finding their time is up — whether it’s the center-left Labour Party in New Zealand or the right-wing populist Law and Justice party in […]

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Keir Starmer, UK Labour Party Leader, Vows to Rebuild Britain Amid Protest

Buoyed by the polls and brimming with confidence, the leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party, Keir Starmer, declared on Tuesday that he was ready to assume the mantle of power. But first he had to shake the glitter off his suit jacket. As Mr. Starmer took the stage at his party’s annual conference in Liverpool, […]

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UK’s Labour Holds Party Conference After a Big Win

Only a month ago, some Labour Party officials were fretting about the risks of fighting a parliamentary election in Scotland days before the party’s annual conference. What if the party underperformed, just before its leader, Keir Starmer, had to make one of the most important speeches of his career? In the end, the opposite happened. […]

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Scottish By-election Result: Labour Beats S.N.P. in Key Parliamentary Vote

Britain’s opposition Labour Party won back a parliamentary seat in Scotland on Friday by a thumping margin, after a closely watched race that had been viewed as a barometer of the party’s national appeal before a general election next year. In a dramatic swing of votes, Labour unseated the Scottish National Party from the Rutherglen […]

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Trailing in Polls, U.K.’s Conservatives Look to Unleash the ‘Real Rishi’ Sunak

When Rishi Sunak arrives at the Conservative Party’s annual conference on Sunday, it will be his first as Britain’s prime minister. The question looming for many attendees in the cavernous venue in Manchester is whether it could also be his last. Facing a general election within 16 months, Mr. Sunak has restored some stability after […]

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Rishi Sunak to Ban ‘American Bully XL’ Dogs in the U.K.

The video, shot from a passing bus and lasting barely a minute, is harrowing. A powerful young dog bites an 11-year-old girl in front of a grocery store in Birmingham, England. As pedestrians scatter in terror, the dog chases a man into a gas station plaza, pulling him down repeatedly, its jaws clamped on the […]

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