If Nigel Farage wins the next UK election, the consequences for Ireland will be profound
There is widespread desire for electoral change and a greater political role for England
Nigel Farage
Labour unrest grows as Starmer faces pressure — could this rising MP be his successor?
Saxophone-playing former corporate lawyer Darren Jones has risen steeply through the ranks to become the PM’s right-hand man
Keir Starmer’s Labour suffers seismic byelection defeat to Plaid Cymru in Wales
Loss of Welsh assembly seat in stronghold deals blow to prime minister’s leadership
Labour’s stunning byelection loss in Wales shows parties who cannot adapt will be crushed
UK politics is moving at speed, with voter loyalties shifting and atomising in unprecedented ways
Starmer’s new Brexit line: it’s a disaster – and Farage is to blame
Downing Street insiders say Labour’s frontbench have been primed to blame the current economic woes on Brexit and Reform UK
Johnny Watterson: Westminster turns Maccabi Tel Aviv fan ban into a political football
Knee-jerk reaction follows security decision to deny Israeli club’s fans tickets for Europa League clash with Aston Villa
The Last Dinner Party: ‘People think they have the right, because they’re anonymous, to say the most awful things
The chart-toppers have released their second album, From the Pyre, which channels the uneasy spirit of the classic 1973 folk-horror movie
‘Something is shifting’: Wales is on the verge of a political earthquake
Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru looks set to battle Reform UK to end a century of Labour political dominance
Right turn in Manchester: Tories chase Reform UK – and risk losing their own centre
Conservative leader needs her big speech on Wednesday to land well as hard right-leaning shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick waits in the wings
Tories’ future as political party capable of governing is at stake: ‘It is that serious’
Whether to focus more on people’s pockets or UK borders is big question at Conservative Party conference
‘Tony O’Reilly should have been president of Ireland’: Jeffrey Archer on life, books and his God-given gift
Former Tory politician on his new novel End Game and - to the chagrin of his publisher - his secret final novel out next year
Keir Starmer delivers perhaps his best speech so far as UK prime minister
Labour leader takes the fight to his internal and external political enemies in address to his party’s conference in Liverpool
Is Britain’s ailing Conservative Party finally over?
Tribalism has engulfed European convervatism – and Kemi Badenoch’s Tories might be next on chopping block
Self-appointed ‘Safeguard Force’ sparks debate over who should patrol Britain’s streets
Volunteers keep Bournemouth’s streets safe, group says, but others worry about vigilantes
Lib Dems gleeful as party eyes historic shift in British politics
Faithful see their party as the ‘liberal antidote’ to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK
Conservative MP Danny Kruger defects to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK
Move follows that of Nadine Dorries earlier this month
Miriam Margolyes: ‘I can do naughty stories... but I’m more than just a potty mouth’
The British veteran of stage and screen on visiting Ireland, speaking out against Israel and being known for more than her ‘naughty stories’
Diarmaid Ferriter on Speaking My Mind by Leo Varadkar: Jaunty but superficial and lazy at times
Former taoiseach provides gossip and entertaining titbits but displays detachment about matters of substance
How the Nigel Farage factor could upend the Belfast Agreement
Quitting the European Convention on Human Rights is the latest talking point among those eager to tighten immigration control
Labour’s ‘King of the North’ highlights growing problem facing Keir Starmer
Labour backbenches are uneasy, which is where the British prime minister’s northern problem comes in
I dare you to walk through Dublin city centre of an evening. You won’t believe what you see
Irish social media is engulfed with paranoia. But at the capital’s heart is an extraordinary energy from which new ideas and fresh cultures emerge
Is Britain headed for prime minister Nigel Farage?
Reform UK conference devotees cheer their man as Labour faces yet more turmoil
Keir Starmer faces real peril in defining period as MPs return
UK prime minister must overturn Reform’s migration-fuelled summer dominance, while crucial budget also looms into view
Does Jim Gavin have what it takes for a presidential campaign?
Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan
Nigel Farage’s immigration bombshell raises nationalist hopes and unionist fears
Unionism still faces a hard new political reality if Northern Ireland comes to be seen in Britain as an obstacle to controlling immigration
Reform UK announces plan to repeal human rights laws and deport all asylum seekers
Nigel Farage says party would remove Britain from the European Convention on Human Rights and disapply international treaties
JD Vance hasn’t mastered the art of the political holiday
August has given me time to think about how politicians holiday. Most of them do it badly
The Irish Times view on UK online safety rules: a new wedge issue in British politics
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage opposes the legislation, but offers no convincing solution to the growing crisis of harmful online content
The truth is out there: how many disgruntled ex-Tories can Nigel Farage’s Reform UK swallow?
A UFO-hunting police and crime commissioner is the latest to switch
‘Isn’t it brilliant’ a mother says, photographing her children at the bonfire topped with an effigy of a migrant boat
Police Service of Northern Ireland investigates ‘hate crime’ following reports of material atop bonfire
Starmer pokes fun at Farage’s expense, but Reform leader may have the last laugh as migration looms large in UK-France summit
Britain’s prime minister badly needs an asylum seeker returns deal with France
Irishman Morgan McSweeney: the softly-spoken chief of staff to Keir Starmer now facing questions
Chief of staff to UK prime minister argues government needs to head off Nigel Farage by leaning to the right
A Nigel Farage-led UK goverment could herald a united Ireland – Varadkar
Former taoiseach hopes Farage win does not happen, but Irish Government should be ‘just-in-case’ planning
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