New UK PM Burnham shakes up cabinet, purging Starmer loyalists, signaling tack to left; Miliband led party from 2010 to 2015, when he lost election; criticized Israel's Gaza policy The post Jewish former Labour leader Ed Miliband tapped as new British foreign secretary appeared first on The Times of Israel.

British Steel has been nationalised by Labour as ministers vowed to protect the future of steel production in the UK.

Andy Burnham was elected as leader of Britain's Labour Party, taking another step towards becoming prime minister. Burnham was elected at a "special conference" on Friday as the current British prime minister,

On the conference stage where, four years ago, delegates waved Palestinian flags, Keir Starmer defended Israel’s right to retaliate in Gaza. Liverpool—As this year’s Conservative Party conference closed last week, it was clear that it was nothing but ...

Success stories in the British economy have been rare of late. But there is one notable exception: the boom in selling services abroad. Over the past decade, Britain’s services exports have grown by around 45% in inflation-adjusted terms, even as the ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... The latest local elections confirmed what opinion polls had been suggesting for a good while: the collapse of the Labour Party and the extraordinary unpopularity of its leader, Prime Minister Keir ...

British politics has become increasingly volatile and fragmented, with no party able to command the substantial backing of the public that was once routine. The results from England’s local elections in May illustrate just how far politics has moved from the two-party dominance that characterised much of the 20th century.