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Britain’s Conservative Party suffered striking setbacks on Friday in local elections that are viewed as a barometer for how the party will perform in a coming general election and a key test for the embattled prime minister, Rishi Sunak.Only a minority of the results had been announced by midday Friday, but already the signs were ominous for Mr.…

London: A group of protesters blocked a bus on Thursday from removing asylum seekers from a hotel in south London to a shipping vessel on the south-west England coast, as the UK government began phased action to crack down on illegal migration.The Metropolitan Police said 'a number of people' have been arrested in the Peckham area of London for…

By Chas GeigerBBC politics reporter1 May 2024, 14:22 BSTUpdated 1 hour agoImage source, UK Parliament/PA MediaThe UK will not accept the return of asylum seekers from Ireland, the prime minister has told MPs.The Irish government has complained of a significant spike in the number of asylum seekers arriving in Ireland from Northern Ireland, and…

Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher did turn up, although he later claimed he only did so because he was high and reckoned he’d get a knighthood out of it. Fellow Britpop superstar Jarvis Cocker, frontman of Pulp, was so into the whole Tony Blair thing that he wrote a song about how much he hated him and then proceeded to kill Britpop stone…

Andreas Rentz/Getty Images Water vapor rises from cooling towers of the Niederaussem coal-fired power plant on March 25, in Bergheim, Germany.…

But the scheme was criticised as “token” and there were fears it could mean vaccines being taken from where they are most needed and sent to areas not at risk, with foreign populations eligible to receive UK-manufactured vaccines before the British public.Dr David Bell, a global health expert and former WHO…

LONDON — Five years ago, Britain’s Conservative Party scored a landslide victory in a general election that contained outlines of a realignment in that nation’s politics. Today, those same Conservatives appear headed for one of their worst defeats in a generation, an unraveling of a once-proud party that has come with astonishing swiftness.Based…

Britain's King Charles III is to return to some public-facing duties next week, Buckingham Palace announced on Friday evening. The UK monarch stepped back temporarily from public engagements after beingdiagnosed with an undisclosed cancer in February just 17 months into his reign. However, the 75-year-old has kept up his state duties, including…

Labour has pledged to halt the decline of British species and protect at least 30% of the land and sea by 2030 if it is elected.Steve Reed, the shadow environment secretary, also vowed to set a new land use framework that would prioritise the protection of nature, and to deliver on targets to improve the UK’s environment.“Nature is under threat…

ASTANA – The United Kingdom seeks enhanced partnership with Kazakhstan in education, business, economy, energy, and climate change, said David Cameron, the U.K.’s Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, during his visit to Astana on April 24. British Foreign Secretary David Cameron and Kazakh Foreign Minister Murat…