Candidates will also be tested on how they see the future relationship with the EU, still the UK's largest trading partner. Sunak, Mordaunt and Badenoch backed Brexit in the 2016 referendum, while Truss and Tugendhat wanted to remain in the bloc. British Conservative MP and...
Labour is currently riding high in the polls and is expected to push the incumbent Conservative Party out of power in the next election — which can be no later than 28 January 2025 — although it is not clear whether the left-of-centre party will have enough support to form a government...
Record exodus of MPs from Conservative Party - privately, many believe defeat is inevitable Sunak and Starmer facing historic unpopularity with ethnically diverse communities, polling suggests Local elections: How key places are predicted to vote on Thursday - and what it could...
Boris Johnson wants to serve a third term as prime minister despite a bruising week in which the Conservatives suffered two by-election defeats. Speaking to reporters on the final day of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Kigali, Rwanda,Mr Johnsonsaid the govern...
In a statement outside 10 Downing Street, she said that there will be a leadership election "to be completed within the next week" and that she will remain as caretaker prime minister until a successor has been chosen. "I came into office at a time of great economic and international inst...
As the Conservatives have a majority in Parliament (thanks to Johnson's big election win in 2019) -- the winner of their leadership will become the next prime minister. Reported polls in the U.K. have suggested Ben Wallace, the U.K.'s current secretary of state for defense who has been...
Polls also suggest that while the Conservatives argue among themselves, they are falling significantly behind the main opposition Labour Party, although no election is scheduled for a couple of years. "I am your best shot of winning that election. I am the candidate that Labou...
"The numbers won't matter, the prime minister will be determined by the majority present on the day." Voter dissatisfaction with the election triggered sporadic violence nationwide, but O'Neill's re-election could stoke more tension, as many are disenchanted by corruption...
“prime minister’s degree” isPPE: politics, philosophy, economics. It has often been associated with the Brexiters.Ivan Rogers, for instance, a grammar schoolboy in 1980s Oxford and the UK’s permanent representative to the EU until he resigned in 2017, discerned “a very British ...
000, it is, like other rural constituencies in the south of England, a key battleground for the two rivals,Liz Truss, foreign secretary, and Rishi Sunak, the former chancellor, fighting to replace Boris Johnson as the UK’s next prime minister....