LONDON — The U.K. government on Friday called an emergency weekend Parliament session to pass legislation aimed at saving the country’s last factory that makes steel directly from raw materials, a move widely called for since U.S. President Trump imposed tariffs on imported steel. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said lawmakers are being asked to return on…
Reform is set to take control of Doncaster, where Energy Security Ed Miliband is an MP, from Labour at the local elections in May, according to a recent poll. The poll, conducted by Electoral Calculus for The Telegraph, predicts that Reform will take control of eight councils in less than seven weeks’ time, with the Conservatives…
Across Ukraine, local politicians were candid in their opinions of Trump’s attacks. “We may like Zelenskyy, or we may not, we may scold him, or we may praise him, we may condemn his actions, or we may applaud them … because he is OUR President,” Borys Filatov, mayor of the industrial city of Dnipro, wrote…
But they said the administration said they won’t “get ahead” of itself. POLITICO asked Starmer on a trip to Kyiv last month if he’d commit to a vote on any British peacekeepers. He declined to give such a commitment. ‘United front’ MPs from Westminster’s opposition parties are demanding parliament’s involvement, too. “We support the prime…
Backed into a political corner, with a hostile parliament and tanking approval ratings, South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol opted for the nuclear option. In a late-night televised address, the beleaguered president and former prosecutor announced he was imposing martial law. “To safeguard a liberal South Korea from the threats posed by North Korea’s communist…
So Macron will just appoint a new prime minister, right? Yes, but it’s not that simple. The French National Assembly is divided into three political blocs: Macron’s centrists, the far-right National Rally, and the left-wing coalition. The three groups are poles apart on politics and refuse to work together, meaning that any new government could…
Text size UK religious leaders joined forces Sunday to say they are “deeply concerned” by draft legislation to legalise assisted dying that MPs will vote on this week. Two new polls ahead of Friday’s parliamentary vote showed a majority of Britons support changing the assisted dying laws. The House of Commons will get a free…
Conor McGregor’s fiancée Dee Devlin is showing that she is standing by the UFC star for better and for worse after a series of sexual assault allegations were made against him. She accompanied McGregor to court in Dublin on Friday, where her partner was told he must pay the woman who accused him of raping her in…
5m agoSun 17 Nov 2024 at 8:54pm A frantic final sitting fortnight for Labor It’s going to be a busy fortnight for the government as it tries to clear the legislative logjam before parliament rises for the year. So what does a successful fortnight look like for Treasurer Jim Chalmers? “For me, there is a…
After POLITICO reached out to Babiš and his ANO party for comment, his right-hand man, ANO Vice Chair Karel Havlíček, replied that “it’s nonsense” to say the party has moved toward the far right. Dita Charanzová told POLITICO that “it was clear from the developments in the Czech Republic that the ANO movement would push nationalistic…