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A Japanese pause

Sky News’ deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico’s Jack Blanchard with their guide to the election day ahead. This is day 34 of the campaign. Jack …

June 25, 2024 8:28 pm CET

Fourth senior Tory official investigated in UK election betting scandal: Report

The Gambling Commission is looking into whether senior officials used inside knowledge to collect winnings worth thousands of pounds.

June 23, 2024 2:53 pm CET

Westminster’s photographers: a politician’s best friend or worst enemy?

As we approach the final lap of the 2024 general election, host Sascha O’Sullivan discovers what life is like for the photographers who trail hot on the …

June 21, 2024 5:00 am CET

Betting scandal engulfs UK election

Conservative figures are accused of betting on the timing of the snap election. The scandal couldn’t come at a worse moment for Rishi Sunak.

June 20, 2024 2:13 pm CET

Britain’s getting more corrupt. Will kicking the Tories out help?

Labour is talking a good game on cleaning up Westminster as an election looms — but the U.K. has a long history of opposition parties promising the earth.

June 20, 2024 4:00 am CET
The Home Front

Britain struggles to reform its ‘feudal’ housing system  

Big changes to the centuries-old model of property ownership still look far off, even with Labour poised for an election win.

June 20, 2024 4:00 am CET

We read Nigel Farage’s manifesto so you don’t have to

The key eyebrow-raising pledges in the Reform UK ‘contract’ with the public.

June 17, 2024 3:47 pm CET

How Nigel Farage blew up the UK election

Britain’s top Brexiteer has made it his life’s work to torment the Conservative Party. This time he could reduce it to rubble. 

June 14, 2024 4:01 am CET

Inside Nigel Farage’s Reform party

As Reform has nosed ahead of the Conservative in the polls, Aggie Chambre goes inside Nigel Farage’s party and asks if he will could actually achieve his …

June 14, 2024 4:00 am CET

Nigel Farage has cup thrown at him on UK election trail

Police arrest man on suspicion of public order offenses after the incident.

June 11, 2024 3:10 pm CET

A Labour win would bring assisted dying one step closer in the UK

Amid a growing campaign for a more compassionate approach to helping the terminally-ill end their lives, Labour Leader Keir Starmer is “personally committed” to change.

June 7, 2024 12:24 pm CET

Rishi Sunak apologizes for skipping D-Day event to do TV interview

Prime minister says it was ‘a mistake’ not to stay in France for afternoon Omaha beach ceremony.

June 7, 2024 10:01 am CET
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What’s the point of a manifesto?

As Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer prepare to launch their manifestos, host Sascha O’Sullivan takes a look at what goes into the making of the crucial documents …

June 7, 2024 4:00 am CET

British troops get passports checked after parachuting into French D-Day event

Passports have been required for Brits to enter the European Union since the U.K.’s exit from the bloc in 2020.

June 6, 2024 1:08 pm CET

Farage pelted with milkshake at election campaign launch

Brexiteer tells POLITICO there’s always a ‘risk of violence’ on campaign walkabouts as woman arrested.

June 4, 2024 4:21 pm CET

Mission Impossible? Tom Cruise tries to climb into UK prime minister’s car

The Hollywood a-lister mixed up his cars

June 4, 2024 11:48 am CET

Tories put trans rights row at heart of UK election campaign

Britain’s ailing Conservatives want to tweak the rules on single-sex spaces.

June 3, 2024 3:31 pm CET

London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan wants to host the Super Bowl

Khan wants to cap London’s status as the ‘sporting capital of the world.’ But UK fans would be up til 3 a.m.

May 31, 2024 1:50 pm CET

The art of the TV debate

Days before this general election’s first television debate, host Aggie Chambre looks back at the history of debates in this country and asks how politicians go about winning …

May 31, 2024 4:00 am CET

Third Tory MP defects to Labour ahead of UK election

Mark Logan said Britain needs ‘fresh ideas’ from Keir Starmer’s party.

May 30, 2024 7:11 pm CET

Advice to Britain’s Tories: Enjoy defeat as best you can

As the UK Conservative Party faces an electoral wipe-out similar to the one it experienced in 1997, history offers some key lessons.

May 29, 2024 4:02 am CET

Police drop investigation into Labour’s Angela Rayner

Greater Manchester Police ‘concluded that no further police action will be taken’ against the Labour deputy leader.

May 28, 2024 5:19 pm CET

Donald Trump hasn’t offered me a job, Nigel Farage says

And the Brexiteer wouldn’t want one if he did, anyway.

May 28, 2024 1:19 pm CET

The big battle for Labour Party jobs

Too many ministers: Keir Starmer faces having to disappoint some of his top team if he makes it into government.

May 28, 2024 5:46 am CET
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