Yvette Cooper, a seasoned Labour politician and former home secretary, was appointed as the UK’s new foreign minister by prime minister Keir Starmer on Friday. Her predecessor, David Lammy, was promoted to deputy prime minister in a major Cabinet reshuffle triggered by Angela Rayner’s resignation over a tax underpayment controversy. As part of the changes,…
Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner resigned from the UK government on Friday after she admitted underpaying property tax on a new home. Her resignation is a new blow for prime minister Keir Starmer. Ms Rayner is the eighth, and the most senior, ministerial departure from Mr Starmer’s team, and the most damaging yet after the…
Angela Rayner has quit the government after underpaying £40,000 tax on a seaside flat in Hove she bought in May. Rayner quit on Friday as deputy prime minister and housing secretary after an investigation by standards watchdog Sir Laurie Magnus found she had been advised by lawyers to seek out expert tax advice, but hadn’t….
Angela Rayner, who resigned as deputy leader of the British government on Friday, was a rare working class champion in a country long dominated by a government disproportionally educated at private schools and Oxford and Cambridge universities. Rayner, 45, is a former care worker who had a baby at the age of 16 and left…
The UK’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation has been met with alarm well beyond its borders, with Irish artists, writers and musicians prominent among those denouncing the move. For many, the issue is not just about support for the group’s tactics and objectives but also whether the UK is abandoning its…
The UK government has announced it will temporarily suspend applications from registered refugees to bring family members into the country in order to give the government time to toughen the rules. Home secretary Yvette Cooper said their asylum system needed “substantial reforms” as she laid out the plans to reduce record numbers of migrants arriving…
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday appointed economist and former Columbia University president Minouche Shafik as his chief economic adviser. It’s part of a staff shakeup aimed at strengthening the government’s response to a sluggish economy and a heated political debate over immigration. Starmer’s center-left Labour Party government has struggled to…
Published on Aug 31, 2025 10:20 pm IST Britain is burning with anger as “Stop the Boats” protests sweep across Epping, Liverpool, Bristol, and beyond. Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces a storm as anti-migrant demonstrations escalate following a hotel assault case involving an asylum seeker. With over 28,000 migrants arriving this year and hotel housing…
Kemi Badenoch, leader of the U.K.’s beleaguered opposition Conservative Party, no longer has faith in the existence of a higher power, she told the BBC in a recent interview. Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer is also a nonbeliever, meaning that perhaps for the first time in British political history, both the nation’s premier and the…
Is Sally Rooney a folk hero? The British media seems determined to turn her into one. It makes sense on one level. She has already been seen with an owl. Maybe someone should check if the beautiful bird from that photograph of the writer is also a “supporter of terror” under UK law. You can…