The new British prime minister promises a more interventionist and decentralized state, but there are forces at play that could prevent a fundamental reset.

LONDON (AP) — Brexit fractured the European Union, and broke British politics. The U.K. is about to get its seventh prime minister since June 23, 2016, a decade ago Tuesday, when the country voted 52% ...

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 ...

Rosa Prince is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering UK politics and policy. She was formerly an editor and writer at Politico and the Daily Telegraph, and is the author of "Comrade Corbyn" and ...

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Politicians often promise what they cannot achieve. Usually it is the prospect of national glory or prosperity without pain. But even the most prosaic pledge can sometimes fail. Sir Keir Starmer, the ...

Nigel Farage has hailed a “truly historic shift in British politics” as Reform UK swept to victory in local elections across the country. Speaking in Havering after Reform UK won control of a London ...

For the past week, British public life has reverberated with the impact of Elon Musk’s tweets—percussive, repetitive, basically vile—calling for the overthrow of the elected government and weaponizing ...

The neglect of working-class voters in the past few decades has had profound consequences for British political life. Disillusioned with the two main parties, many have turned to Nigel Farage’s Reform ...

Any poll must be taken as a snapshot in time, rather than an exhaustive evaluation of the present moment. In politics, it is the trend that matters, and the trend is clear here in the U.K.: Nigel ...