Politics

Rosa Prince is Deputy UK Editor at POLITICO in London. LONDON — Keir Starmer spoke of the “sunlight of hope” as he hailed his landslide victory in the U.K. general...

A thread of bombshell text messages made public Thursday alleged that Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign settled “multiple” seedy lawsuits for a man described only as “Boris,” leading to conjecture it...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has authorized the implementation of a digital-services tax on large foreign technology companies, despite warnings of trade retaliation from the U.S.  A government notice posted online...

Who is Keir Starmer? Britain’s new prime minister is complex, unknowable, aggrieved A trip north with the U.K.’s most powerful leader in a generation. Tanya Gold Illustration by Peter Strain...

CLACTON-ON-SEA, ENGLAND — Nigel Farage has become an MP and will bring his upstart Reform Party to the U.K. parliament. On his eighth attempt at entering the House of Commons,...

LONDON — Britain’s Conservatives aren’t the only big losers of the U.K.’s general election. After dominating Scottish politics for years, the pro-independence Scottish National Party is having a terrible night...

What happens if Italy and France’s right-wing firebrands unite? Once in office, Italy’s Giorgia Meloni moderated her positions. Will Marine Le Pen do the same? By GIORGIO LEALIin Paris Photo-illustrations...

The red-hot Washington debate over whether U.S. President Joe Biden will scrap his run for re-election is spilling into Wall Street, where traders are shifting money to and from the...

Welcome to Declassified, a weekly humor column. Hello and welcome to the first meeting of the Marxist Convict Party! No, wait, it’s the Put Compassion First Party! Or maybe the...

United States President Joe Biden has slapped down calls to end his faltering re-election bid, insisting he is “not going anywhere”. Biden, 81, has been under growing pressure to assuage...