Liberal Democrats suffered election defeat in 2015, reflecting alienated supporters opposed to cooperation with major parties ...

Who pays for British politics? Reform UK’s seventy-two-million-pound funding boost puts party donations under the spotlight Party funding is under renewed scrutiny — from huge private donations to the ...

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% ...

On dysfunctional governance in the United Kingdom. In July 2024, the Conservative Party was ejected from office with an ignominy that was towering and by a margin unprecedented in its long history.

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 ...

FILE - This combo of file photos show the former Prime Ministers of Britain since 2016 during their resignation speeches outside 10 Downing Street in London. Top row, from left, Keir Starmer, Rishi ...

When Keir Starmer told Parliament that he was leaving Britain “in a better shape than he found it”, many voters appeared unconvinced. According to polling figures released after his final Prime ...

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 ...