LONDON — Britain’s main opposition Labour Party has decisively won two special elections, snatching seats in Parliament that were long rock-solid bastions of the governing Conservatives. Results early Friday showed that voters in Tamworth, central England and Mid-Bedfordshire, north of London, switched from Conservatives to Labour in almost unprecedented numbers, solidifying Labour’s status as front-runner … Read more
LONDON — Members of Britain’s opposition Labour Party gather in Liverpool on Sunday for their annual conference with an unfamiliar feeling: optimism. The party has been out of power for 13 years, and in the last national election in 2019, voters handed Labour its worst drubbing since 1935. But with an election due next year, … Read more
The last time Britain’s ruling Conservative Party gathered in one place, at its annual conference last year in Birmingham, the party was on the verge of yet another crisis. Their fourth leader in six years, Liz Truss, had just passed a series of unfunded tax cuts for the superrich that crashed the British pound, spooked … Read more
Comment on this storyComment LONDON — The premise of “Naked Attraction” is simple: Contestants on the dating show should start relationships “where a good date often ends. … Naked.” But the debate over the series is growing increasingly heated as it becomes a surprising transatlantic export from the more traditionally buttoned-up Brits. All six seasons … Read more