‘I go with a smile’ says outgoing UK PM Keir Starmer in final speech
The recent resignation of Keir Starmer as Britain’s prime minister has reignited a debate over the United Kingdom’s post-Brexit identity – and talk of rejoining the European Union. Over the past decade, has Britain’s decision to exit the EU returned the UK to its splendid isolation – or merely a splendid squalor? It may seem a far-fetched idea but what if the UK were to become a special sovereignty within the EU? And in that case, what can post-Brexit Britain learn from Hong Kong, which has been...
PM Keir Starmer's final honours list also includes campaigners, military leaders and senior civil servants.
Andy Burnham, who is set to formally replace Starmer on Monday, will become the UK’s seventh prime minister in a decade.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that he was leaving the United Kingdom “in better shape than I found it” as he fielded questions, criticism and even a bit of praise from lawmakers in the House of Commons for the last time on Wednesday. Starmer, who leaves office next week, bid farewell to the boisterous weekly Prime Minister’s Questions sessions where he has traded barbs with opposition politicians and defended his government’s record. On Monday, he will step down as prime minister after losing...
The weapon has not been brought back to the UK and has instead been left with British officials in Turkey.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer will convene around a dozen leaders to discuss the programme in Ankara.
US Vice-President J.D. Vance said Britain had been “failed by its leadership for a long time”, adding that he hoped the country’s next prime minister could deliver the structural change voters were seeking after years of political turmoil. In an interview with the Sunday Times newspaper, Vance said frequent changes of government pointed to deeper problems in British politics. Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced last month he would step down after two years in office, paving the way for...
UK government and Christian churches oversaw system that separated 185,000 babies from their mothers from 1949 to 1976.
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