The new British prime minister promises a more interventionist and decentralized state, but there are forces at play that ...

The tectonic plates of British politics have shifted after Britons resoundingly voted to put an end to 14 years of Conservative rule, and deliver a landslide victory for the Labour Party. Labour’s ...

Edited by Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton; Boris Johnson; David Richards and Julian Lindley-French Request reprint permissions here. Three recent books on contemporary British politics and foreign ...

Politicians often promise what they cannot achieve. Usually it is the prospect of national glory or prosperity without pain. But even the most prosaic pledge can sometimes fail. Sir Keir Starmer, the ...

LONDON (AP) — Brexit fractured the European Union, and broke British politics. The U.K. is about to get its seventh prime minister since June 23, 2016, a decade ago Tuesday, when the country voted 52% ...

Nigel Farage has hailed a “truly historic shift in British politics” as Reform UK swept to victory in local elections across the country. Speaking in Havering after Reform UK won control of a London ...

The neglect of working-class voters in the past few decades has had profound consequences for British political life. Disillusioned with the two main parties, many have turned to Nigel Farage’s Reform ...

Any poll must be taken as a snapshot in time, rather than an exhaustive evaluation of the present moment. In politics, it is the trend that matters, and the trend is clear here in the U.K.: Nigel ...