Mark Paul

Mark Paul

London Correspondent

Mark Paul is London Correspondent for The Irish Times

Irish Government wants Burnham to reverse UK’s overseas aid cuts

Minister of State Neale Richmond is in Britain to launch the Republic’s new diaspora strategy

Meet the most powerful woman in Britain

Louise Haigh’s career seemed in tatters 18 months ago, but now she is the Labour Party’s new queen

Starmer ally hits back at Burnham administration in row over its first big policy announcement

Former chancellor contradicts new PM’s administration on source of funding for electricity bills VAT cut

Andy Burnham wastes no time in purging his government of Starmer allies

New UK prime minister surprises Westminster with choice of chancellor of the exchequer

Emotion was creased across both faces as Andy Burnham embraced the woman who shaped him

New UK prime minister shared a tender moment with his mother before vowing to ‘bring back hope’

Andy Burnham to call for unity as he takes control of skittish Britain

Former Greater Manchester mayor to become UK’s sixth new prime minister in a decade as Keir Starmer departs

‘I am ready’: Andy Burnham to become UK’s seventh PM in 10 years

Former Greater Manchester mayor, who replaces Keir Starmer as Labour leader, says party is on ‘last chance’ to change

A pub tour of ‘Manchesterism’ as Andy Burnham gets ready for Downing Street

From ‘warm and optimistic’ to occasionally a ‘stubborn shithouse', Britain’s next prime minister elicits strong opinions

Ann Widdecombe’s murder stirs familiar feelings of fear and dread among Westminster MPs

Former Tory minister is the third national politician in Britain to be murdered in a decade

Weary Clacton repels media hordes as Jaywick shines on in Farage’s byelection stronghold

Shirt and trouser-wearing army from the city heads for England’s North Sea coast

Farage political rivals say they will boycott ‘fake’ byelection after his resignation

Reform UK leader accused of having ‘hissy fit’ to distract from ongoing investigation in to undeclared £5m ‘gift’ he received

Nigel Farage throws down gauntlet to his foes in the gamble of his political life

Reform UK leader to stand down as MP for Clacton and run again in subsequent by-election, as he tries to get ahead of donations row

King of the casuals: What Andy Burnham’s dad-friendly labels say about his push for power

Britain’s prime minister-in-waiting is rewriting the rules of political authenticity, aided by a wardrobe of centrist-dad staples

How vapes and pouches have become the tobacco industry’s great smokeless hope

British American Tobacco seeks engagement with Government, but sector continues to be shunned officially

Evidence of the English psyche’s greatest fear lies in Surrey’s hills

Britain believes it hears the war drums beating, which is why defence spending dominates Westminster thinking

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