BRITISH elections have been shaped by two long-term trends. Voters have become more volatile: more than four in ten switched their allegiance between the general elections of 2019 and 2024, the ...

Ivor Gaber looks back to the year just gone and concludes that it might be the year when British politics began to change.

TWO OF THE most entertaining British political diarists of recent times, Gyles Brandreth and Alan Clark, both Conservative MPs, once sat down in the House of Commons tearoom to draw up a list of ...

POLITICO has all the dates in a year of make-or-break elections, a closer U.K.-EU relationship and laws on migration control ...

Sam and Anne make their predictions and get into the political meat and potatoes of 2026, focusing on: Politics at Sam and ...

Press Association chief political photographer Stefan Rousseau’s pictures showcase both the unexpected and accidental moments ...

WHEN the crowd at the World Darts Championship were caught up in an enthusiastic rendition of “Keir Starmer is a w****r” and ...

Just three days after World War I ended on Armistice Day, 1918, Bonar Law, the leader of Britain’s Conservative Party, announced that a general election would be held on December 14. It would be no ...

Edited by Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton; Boris Johnson; David Richards and Julian Lindley-French Request reprint permissions here. Three recent books on contemporary British politics and foreign ...

Elon Musk has invaded Britain—if only via tweet. This week, the rightwing American billionaire stirred chaos by unleashing a tweet-storm against Keir Starmer, the Labor Party leader and current U.K.

It’s a difficult Monday for the Prime Minister. Shortly after Keir Starmer expressed his ‘delight’ that Egyptian dissident ...

Today, we celebrate our independence from the British and the establishment of our own political institutions. It just so happens that there is also an important election taking place today: British ...