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Britain has had six prime ministers since 2016. We explain Reform UK's surge, Labour's loss of Wales, Starmer's fall and Labour's recovery under Andy Burnham. The post Why Britain Keeps Changing Prime Ministers appeared first on The Rio Times.
Getting relations with China right is widely seen as Britain’s epoch-defining challenge. It is also one it is woefully unprepared to face. So concluded a recent audit by the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), which highlighted that top negotiators lacked basic Chinese language skills. More critically, it exposed a deeper deficit: a poor grasp of China spanning political elites and the public alike. This is rooted in a desk-bound classroom sinology rather than a nuanced appreciation...
A 29-year-old Indian man was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday in a Paris trial over his alleged involvement in an international criminal network that targeted vulnerable children in the US, Britain and Canada and coerced them into producing violent and sexual videos.
Britain said on Thursday its nearly 200-year-old consulate in Jerusalem would remain operating at a smaller scale, renamed as the “UK Mission” in the city, after Israel ordered it shut in a dispute over sanctions on settlements. Israel last month issued a 30-day deadline for Britain to close the consulate after London announced sanctions targeting Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, a dispute that has strained relations between the long-time allies. The deadline expired on...
The exodus of the uber-rich from the UK has become a $160 billion problem. Bloomberg calculates that figure using data from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, revealing the scale of wealth behind those leaving Britain. It represents the total wealth of individuals tracked by the index who have loosened their ties with the UK - or cut them entirely — over the past two years. Armand Arton, CEO of Arton Capital, joins Bloomberg Radio’s Caroline Hepker and Tiwa Adebayo to discuss what’s driving wealthy individuals to reconsider where they live and invest. (Source: Bloomberg)
Britain's Green Party voted on Sunday to class Zionism as a form of racism, drawing criticism from British Jews and from the Israeli government which said it now viewed the party as "a body that gives legitimacy to terrorism".