Andy Burnham was elected as leader of Britain's Labour Party, taking another step towards becoming prime minister. Burnham was elected at a "special conference" on Friday as the current British prime minister,

On the conference stage where, four years ago, delegates waved Palestinian flags, Keir Starmer defended Israel’s right to retaliate in Gaza. Liverpool—As this year’s Conservative Party conference closed last week, it was clear that it was nothing but ...

Success stories in the British economy have been rare of late. But there is one notable exception: the boom in selling services abroad. Over the past decade, Britain’s services exports have grown by around 45% in inflation-adjusted terms, even as the ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... The latest local elections confirmed what opinion polls had been suggesting for a good while: the collapse of the Labour Party and the extraordinary unpopularity of its leader, Prime Minister Keir ...

British politics has become increasingly volatile and fragmented, with no party able to command the substantial backing of the public that was once routine. The results from England’s local elections in May illustrate just how far politics has moved from the two-party dominance that characterised much of the 20th century.

Britain’s Labour Party has been out of power for eleven years. The Party’s most recent Prime Minister was Gordon Brown, a complex, often frustrated figure, who coped admirably with the 2008 financial crisis but lost a general election, in 2010, to a ...

Labour's renationalisation of British Steel went ahead today as the Tories urged the government not to write a 'blank cheque' for the industry.

Andy Burnham has heralded his coronation as Labour leader as “the most significant change moment in our politics in forty years”. Many Labour supporters hope he can deliver the promises of the historic mandate that the party won in 2024.