#British politics

#British politics

Housing is always centre stage in British politics, usually in the form of support for first-time buyers, like right to buy.But Keir Starmer is making housebuilding a key pre-election dividing line, attacking Rishi Sunak for scrapping the government's 300,000 homes a year target for England and, more boldly, recognising that some development on green belt land will be required.

Nigel Farage said he believes it's the end of Boris Johnson in the Conservative Party as he suggested more than 10 Tory MPs could be willing to join a new party.The prominent Leave campaigner, appearing on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg show, added that the gap for another insurgency is actually bigger than it was 10 years ago.

In a life-enhancing essay that confirms, if nothing else, that he would have been the all-time ideal dinner party guest, Robert Louis Stevenson writes that to talk with others about the affairs of the day is to bear our part in that great international congress, always sitting, where public wrongs are first declared, public errors first corrected, and the course of public opinion shaped, day by day, a little nearer to the right.

Ireland's prime minister said Saturday that the U.K. and the European Union are inching closer to agreeing on a deal to resolve a thorny post-Brexit dispute in Northern Ireland.Leo Varadkar told reporters that he believed an agreement may be possible within days.His comments came amid intense speculation that a breakthrough on months-long wrangling over the trading arrangements, known as the Northern Ireland Protocol, is imminent.

For a Brexit-minded MP, the parallels may seem striking: an electorally embattled prime minister trying to push through a controversial Northern Ireland deal in the face of Tory and Democratic Unionist party (DUP) scepticism.But one thing has changed: this is 2023, not 2019.Theresa May's struggles with Brexit, and her tumbling popularity with voters, led to her being forced out as prime minister by Conservative backbenchers.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak traveled to Northern Ireland on Thursday evening to meet with local political leaders, a sign that the U.K. and European Union may be nearing a settlement of the post-Brexit trade dispute that has brought economic headaches and political turmoil to the region.Sunak and Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris are making the trip to talk with people on all sides of the issue and ensure any solution resolves the practical problems on the ground, meets our overarching objectives, and safeguards Northern Ireland's place in the U.K.'s internal market," the prime minister's office said.

Several months before Britain's 2016 referendum on leaving the European Union, around the time that Boris Johnson came out in support of Brexit in a dramatic turn, a much lesser-known politician also declared his support.Rishi Sunak, who on Tuesday became prime minister, broke ranks with then-Prime Minister David Cameron, hailing Brexit as a once-in-a-generation opportunity for our country to take back control of its destiny.

Dear home secretary, Today's Politico politics briefing alerts me to the fact that you're looking for help on LinkedIn.There have been 92 applicants so far, apparently.But I'm sorry, that help is me.For it has been my lifelong dream to play a front-seat role in the debasing of British politics and expanding the reach of extreme conservatism.

Six years ago, Jared O'Mara was seen as a breath of fresh air for British politics.You don't see people like me young, working-class lads with disabilities in parliament, but now you're going to, he said with understandable pride.Today, O'Mara's reputation is in tatters, his fall as spectacular as his rise.

Rishi Sunak has warned that the UK's problems will not go away in 2023 after a tough 12 months, as he delivered his New Year message.The Prime Minister, in his message to the public after a turbulent year in British politics, promised that the very best of Britain will be on display in the coming months as the country continues to support Ukraine in its war against Russia.

Rishi Sunak's government is reportedly on the hunt for around £21 billion ($24 billion) of new taxes as part of a budget that will need to find more than £50 billion in revenue and spending cuts.That will make it the biggest fiscal tightening since George Osborne's 2010 austerity package.

Keir Starmer is coming under growing pressure from the left of his party for a more radically redistributive economic programme in the light of mounting evidence of public fatigue with Conservative austerity.Resisting pressure from the left to increase borrowing to pay for services, Sir Keir insisted that Labour would be the party of sound money in power.

Observers of British politics can be forgiven for scratching their heads in recent weeks as they watch the country reel through prime ministers without holding an election.While the opposition Labour Party is demanding an election, the governing Conservatives have just chosen another leader from within their own ranks  Rishi Sunak, the third prime minister since September.

Observers of British politics can be forgiven for scratching their heads in recent weeks as they watch the country reel through prime ministers without holding an election.While the opposition Labour Party is demanding an election, the governing Conservatives have just chosen another leader from within their own ranks  Rishi Sunak, the third prime minister since September.