A woman started dancing and singing ‘Viva Espana’ when Spain scored. Was she mad? Was she Irish?The evening began with England fans buoyed with belief but it ended with familiar agonyMon Jul 15 2024 - 10:41
Tensions in Reform UK after Nigel Farage shakes up party leadershipParty leader sacks Reform’s deputy leaders as one of them expresses ‘concerns’ over decision makingThu Jul 11 2024 - 18:47
Popular Conservatives clan meets in Westminster amid agreement Tories are neither ‘popular nor conservative’While the right-wing Tory factions meet to plan a ‘rebuild’, election winners gathered in parliament to be sworn inTue Jul 09 2024 - 19:18
First-day-at-school vibe in Westminster as Labour regime arrives in townHundreds of brand new MPs descended on parliament this week after the electionTue Jul 09 2024 - 14:36
Labour government warns of dire UK finances as it begins first full week in officeChancellor of the exchequer Rachel Reeves gives her first speech at the TreasuryMon Jul 08 2024 - 20:10
Keir Starmer and David Lammy hit the road as Britain’s Labour government eyes relationships resetBritish prime minister seeking to smooth ties between Westminster and SNP-run Scotland while foreign secretary attempts to build relationship with European governmentsSun Jul 07 2024 - 19:05
Ray of hope for Britain as clouds briefly part for Keir Starmer’s arrival at Downing StreetIt poured rain all day in London but there was a sunny interlude at a convenient moment for the new Labour prime ministerFri Jul 05 2024 - 21:39
Conservatives lost UK’s landslide election just as much as Labour won itKeir Starmer’s party turned the election map red - but secured fewer votes than in 2017 when led by Jeremy CorbynFri Jul 05 2024 - 19:04
Peers, polls, politics and a proper party: Labour faithful’s prayers answered … finallyUK election: Labour’s ‘official unofficial’ election-watch festivities had wedding vibes, and then the DJ played D:ReamFri Jul 05 2024 - 18:53
Labour eyes control of Scotland’s parliament after routing SNP in electionScottish Labour under Anas Sarwar has completed a Lazarus-like recoveryFri Jul 05 2024 - 18:25
Keir Starmer: Britain’s new PM shaped by a distant father and deep ‘love’ for IrelandLabour Party leader now leads a Britain riven by division and uncertainty about its past, present, and futureFri Jul 05 2024 - 12:29
Keir Starmer set to be British prime minister amid landslide victory for Labour in UK electionLabour set to secure 410 seats, with Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives on 131Thu Jul 04 2024 - 22:29
UK general election: Polls open with Labour on course for historic victoryUK election: Tory prime minister Rishi Sunak says he will take responsibility for the result, which could cost half his cabinet their seats in parliamentThu Jul 04 2024 - 07:34
British electoral politics are still reassuringly loonyLondon Letter: Joke candidates such as Nick the Incredible Flying Brick are a beloved tradition in British electionsWed Jul 03 2024 - 05:00
Liberal Democrat stuntman Ed Davey launches himself into the UK electionThe pro-Europe politician looks set to lead his party back onto the British electoral podium in third placeTue Jul 02 2024 - 16:09
Sunak says he will stay on as MP even if Tories lose, as party leaders hit the home straightBritain goes to the polls on Thursday in election that Labour is expected to win in a landslideMon Jul 01 2024 - 19:43
‘It’s the Mayo supporter in me’: the Ballycastle Labour woman battling for Tory Kwasi Kwarteng’s old seat Spelthorne was once considered unwinnable for Labour but Mayo woman Claire Tighe has made it as toss upMon Jul 01 2024 - 06:00
Labour’s Happy Valley - the Yorkshire swing constituency that always picks an election winnerIt is the setting of the BBC crime series and has a history of UFO sightings, but Calder Valley also has another claim to fame: an uncanny ability to align with government changesFri Jun 28 2024 - 16:00
Rishi Sunak refuses to say what he privately told betting MP about election dateBrexiteer Steve Baker will reportedly launch Tory leadership bid if he holds seat, although he faces uphill battleThu Jun 27 2024 - 19:19
UK election debate: Sunak goes for it in final joust with Starmer but his true target probably wasn’t in the roomTory PM took aim at his likely successor in Downing Street but may really have been trying to throttle the flow of votes from his party to Farage’s Reform UKThu Jun 27 2024 - 06:27
Reform UK rally: Boos and cheers at political Punch and Judy showEnthusiasm peaks at a bar-fuelled gathering of supporters of insurgent party headed by Nigel FarageWed Jun 26 2024 - 16:56
Lucky number seven: How a Labour government under Keir Starmer could revamp Anglo-Irish relationsStarmer hopes that by turning the page on connections with the Republic, it could help to open a new book of co-operation with EUWed Jun 26 2024 - 06:00
Green Party sneaks in under political foggy dew to fire warning shot across Labour’s bowsYorkshire Letter: A rebellious busker in Hebden Bridge epitomises the challenge facing Labour among some of its left wing baseWed Jun 26 2024 - 05:00
Government considers incentives to help Dublin stock exchange after loss of big hitters Financial services minister Neale Richmond has warned Britain it will not get ‘free pass’ on Brexit rules if Labour wins the UK electionFri Jun 21 2024 - 06:00
‘Brexit has been a disaster and they don’t want to talk about it’: Labour Party face awkward questions on the campaign trail Rachel Reeves, who is on course to become the first female chancellor of the exchequer, is eyeing economic growth and an improved trade deal with the EUFri Jun 21 2024 - 06:00
‘I’ve never had so much fun’: The Dub running for Nigel Farage’s Reform party threatening Jacob Rees-Mogg’s seatPolicy geek Paul MacDonnell is running for election to Westminster amid the green hills of SomersetFri Jun 21 2024 - 00:00
Fireworks and Farage: Reform UK leader brings anti-immigration political cabaret act to Clacton’s theatreNigel Farage packed out a theatre on Tuesday night in the centre of the Essex constituency where he is running to be the local MPWed Jun 19 2024 - 13:35
A woman walked in and a brawl started: A night watching the Euros in a Glasgow pubGlasgow Letter: Scottish city’s boisterous reputation is enthusiastically fulfilled one crazy evening watching the EurosWed Jun 19 2024 - 04:01
‘People are hacked off at politics’: SNP and Labour in knife-edge battle across central ScotlandLabour is hoping to regain seats lost to the SNP, with Brexit and migration the main dividing linesMon Jun 17 2024 - 19:28
Reform UK’s ‘radical’ election manifesto sums criticised by spending analystsNigel Farage launches his party’s offering for the July 4th poll in Wales, upstaging Labour and the ToriesMon Jun 17 2024 - 19:04
Jeremy Corbyn interview: ‘Before Boris Johnson became leader he could be quite funny’Jeremy Corbyn on running against his old party Labour as an independent, the 'brutality' of party leadership and his friendship with Michael D HigginsFri Jun 14 2024 - 15:00
David Cameron suggests Ukraine can use British weapons to strike troops inside RussiaUK’s foreign secretary also insists relations with Ireland are “improving” despite setbacksThu Jun 13 2024 - 16:41
‘I’m a girl from a council estate and I’ve had to prove my worth.’ Angela Rayner back in the driving seat for LabourLabour’s flamboyant deputy leader back to her pugnacious best as she tours Britain by election battle busWed Jun 12 2024 - 05:00
Tory party launches its manifesto at Silverstone as wheels threaten to come off campaignNot even the proximity of Brad Pitt could add excitement to the flaccid Tory eventTue Jun 11 2024 - 20:43
Tory party to launch election manifesto as it hopes to revive campaign by dangling promise of tax cutsAfter a torrid few days following D-Day row, UK prime minister Rishi Sunak will try to get floundering general election campaign back on track in NorthamptonshireTue Jun 11 2024 - 08:19
‘Real children, real families, real lives’: Poverty is a huge problem in parts of Britain but barely features in the electionThe north east is one of the proudest parts of England but also one of its poorest with kids most at riskSun Jun 09 2024 - 17:06
Broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby on Britain today: ‘Just alienation, frustration, resentment and contempt’Broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby on UK elections, his new book, Russia’s war psyche and Tony O’Reilly’s holiday homeSat Jun 08 2024 - 06:00
Sunak struggles to contain row over D-Day gaffeBritish prime minister skipped commemoration in France to record television interviewFri Jun 07 2024 - 18:17
George Galloway targets more gains as Labour loses support among British MuslimsKeir Starmer is ‘Blairism without the laughs, the polish or the pizazz’, says newly elected MP for RochdaleWed Jun 05 2024 - 20:24
UK leaders’ debate: Sunak’s tax attack on Starmer leads to a soap opera in Coronation Street spin roomUK election: Tory leader’s jibe that Labour would raise taxes by £2,000 lingered after the leaders’ TV debate but was not the knockout blow he neededWed Jun 05 2024 - 08:05
Go west: Woman from west Dublin eyes west London seat in WestminsterUK Labour Party councillor and Greenhills native Deirdre Costigan is strong favourite to win Ealing SouthallWed Jun 05 2024 - 07:15
Nigel Farage and Jeremy Corbyn may have more in common than either would like to let onBritish media have pawed the ground for personality narratives in this electionTue Jun 04 2024 - 16:17
Keir Starmer needs a way to calm Labour’s infighting over ‘purge’ of left wingersThe row is damaging the party’s general election campaignThu May 30 2024 - 20:07
Nigel Farage and Richard Tice of Reform UK preach for a business tax on foreign workersAnti-immigration party Reform UK, which is at 13 per cent in the polls, hosts media event in LondonThu May 30 2024 - 17:57
Labour puts plan to cure Britain’s national health service at heart of election campaignShadow health secretary Wes Streeting says re-electing Tories would be like ‘giving the matches back to the arsonists’Wed May 29 2024 - 19:48
Keir Starmer promises ‘respectful engagement’ with Irish Government if elected prime ministerLabour leader says he is ‘acutely aware of the issues at play’ in Anglo-Irish relationsWed May 29 2024 - 13:46
Starmer wraps himself in the flag to woo back patriotic British votersThe Union Jack is back in vogue at the Labour Party while England’s cross of St George is also in from the coldWed May 29 2024 - 05:00
Angela Rayner accuses Tories of ‘desperate tactics’ as police close inquiry into her house saleLabour deputy leader dogged for months by questions over tax affairs that threatened her political careerTue May 28 2024 - 20:10
‘I’ve changed this party, permanently’: Keir Starmer promises red renewal in Tory party’s blue backyardThe Labour leader travelled to England’s southern coast for his first big speech of the campaignMon May 27 2024 - 19:44
Conservative Party’s national service plan is the ‘monkey tennis’ of policy ideasThe policy of mandatory national service for 18 year olds has dominated British mediaSun May 26 2024 - 18:04
