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% ...

A whole lot about politics today can be traced back to a surprising election result in 2016. That's true if you're talking about the United States, where long shot Republican candidate Donald Trump ...

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.

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 ...

Welcome to Balance of Power, bringing you the latest in global politics. If you haven’t yet, sign up here. When Nigel Farage descended the staircase of London’s art deco Banking Hall to rip up his ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

London — British voters voted Thursday in the United Kingdom's first general election since 2019, with an exit poll projecting the Labour Party notching 410 seats for a decisive win over the ...