Keir Starmer was battling for his future a week ago. After the retreat of his main Labour rival and his decision to take the gloves off against populist rival Nigel Farage, the U.K. prime minister’s shored up his standing. His party’s annual conference in Liverpool had threatened to be a pressure cooker of discontent with…
Labour would have made fewer mistakes if it had listened to its MPs, the health secretary has said. Wes Streeting told a fringe event at the Labour Party conference: “We would have avoided some of the mistakes of the past year if we’d listened to our MPs. “We’ve got to have the humility to listen.”…
Hong Kong’s labour minister has ruled out legislating for work suspension arrangements under adverse weather, saying the move will hinder the functioning of society and the early resumption of normalcy. Secretary for Labour and Welfare Chris Sun Yuk-han rejected the call on Thursday as some lawmakers urged authorities to improve the protection of workers under…
A by-election to select members of the committee responsible for selecting Hong Kong’s leader was held on Sunday despite the issuance of a No 3 typhoon signal, with a 97 per cent turnout. More than 3,500 registered voters cast their ballots in the poll, in which 28 candidates from six Election Committee subsectors contested 21…
Britain’s government announced Monday it was suspending a scheme enabling families of refugees already in the UK to apply to join their relatives, as it tries to reduce irregular immigration. Labour is struggling to stop record numbers of undocumented migrants arriving in the country by small boat, which is fuelling a bitter national debate and…
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…
The latest Electoral Calculus MRP poll, published on 30 June — almost a year on from the general election — suggests that both MPs representing constituencies in the Eastleigh local government area could lose their seats to anti-immigration party Reform UK if a general election were held tomorrow. In Eastleigh, Reform is now predicted to…
Hong Kong catering and construction unions have called for a review of the labour import scheme amid high jobless rates in the sectors, with some local employees complaining about being replaced or forced to work fewer days after cheaper staff from outside the city were recruited. Chau Sze-kit, chairman of the Hong Kong Construction Industry…
Representative Image (AI-generated) A private train operator servicing parts of southern England, including London, on Sunday became the first to be returned to public ownership under a government plan to renationalise Britain’s much-maligned railways.All UK rail operators are due to be renationalised within the next two years in a key policy launched by Prime Minister…
After strong results in the local elections earlier this month, Reform UK are on the verge of becoming part of the UK’s political mainstream, new data from YouGov suggests. The number of respondents who believe Reform is a mainstream party has more than doubled in less than a year, growing from 19% in July 2024…