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…