The UK Labour party is no exception. Public concern about large-scale immigration clearly contributed to its heavy defeat at the 2010 general election. Since then it has been slowly but surely hardening its stance on the issue, although this is by no means unprecedented: while the rise of ...
Macron faces his own trial by fire on Sunday, by way of the second round of the French snap election he called after his party suffered a decisive defeat in the European Parliament vote. The far-right anti-immigration National Rally faction presided by 28-year-old Jordan Bardella recorded...
Is it so hard to stop attacking trans people, one of the most vulnerable minorities in the UK? Is it so hard to tax the rich and start to sort out the wealth inequality in this country? Is it so hard to stop arming Israel? This is just a red version of the tory party. Utter lia...
is in support of a threatened but yet to materialise legal challenge aimed at forcing Nigel Farage to improve his Reform UK party’s compliance with the famously dull General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It’s unclear whether Reform even bothered to reply to the GLP’...
The Labour Partyis one of the established UK mainstream political parties. From 2015 to theGeneral Election of 2019the Party was the fastest growing political party in theUnited Kingdomwith a membership exceeding 515,000 and a leader,Jeremy Corbyn, who appeared to be more or less independent of...
Labour's tough rhetoric on illegal immigration is not a response to Reform's rise in the polls, the home secretary has insisted. Yvette Cooper told broadcasters the party had been clear during the election that it would "increase returns" of people with no r...
UK's Opposition Labour Leader Starmer Is Self-Isolating More Reuters FILE PHOTO: Britain's Labour Party leader Keir Starmer leaves his home, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in London, Britain April 21, 2020. REUTERS/Hannah McKay LONDON (Reuters) - The leader of Britain...
UK Poll Shows Right-Wing Reform in Close Second Behind Labour Party More Reuters FILE PHOTO: Britain's Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage speaks, during a conference in Chester, Britain January 11, 2025. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja/File Photo By Sachin Ravikumar LONDON (Reuters) ...
In the first round of voting in France's parliamentary elections on Sunday, Marine Le Pen's far-right, anti-immigration National Rally Party moved within reach of becoming the largest political party in France. The partytook a third of the votesin a first round that drew a historically h...
Labour starts in a less politically precarious position. Its supporters, at least in pre-election polling, didn’t consider immigrationmuch of an issue. But the public as a whole ismuch more worried. Plus the party faces challenges from the anti-immigration Reform UK, which came second in 89...