Farage has arguably been the biggest political winner from Brexit. He campaigned for the divorce then complained it had been betrayed. His anti-immigration message has shifted from focusing on Polish plumbers to asylum seekers in dinghies. His party consistently leads opinion polls.

These letters come from readers of Blighty, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter in which our correspondents turn their gaze on the latest developments in Britain. Sign up for Blighty Blighty assessed the recent chaos surrounding Sir Keir Starmer and ...

Reform UK published "news-making, cor blimey, take-a-look-at-this photos" of a meeting this week between Elon Musk and Nigel Farage at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago mansion, said the BBC's political editor Chris Mason. But this is about more than just photos ...

The debate comes after a petition expressed concern over Israeli lobbies’ influence in the UK.

A decade on from the referendum that led to Britain's exit from the European Union, the issue continues to divide and drive debate in Westminster.

Rosa Prince is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering UK politics and policy. She was formerly an editor and writer at Politico and the Daily Telegraph, and is the author of "Comrade Corbyn" and "Theresa May: The Enigmatic Prime Minister." Kemi Badenoch ...

On dysfunctional governance in the United Kingdom. In July 2024, the Conservative Party was ejected from office with an ignominy that was towering and by a margin unprecedented in its long history. The Labour Party, thrashed at the previous election in ...

BRITISH elections have been shaped by two long-term trends. Voters have become more volatile: more than four in ten switched their allegiance between the general elections of 2019 and 2024, the greatest shift since studies began in the 1960s. They are also ...

For the past week, British public life has reverberated with the impact of Elon Musk’s tweets—percussive, repetitive, basically vile—calling for the overthrow of the elected government and weaponizing a national scandal relating to the rape of young ...

Lawmaker Andy Burnham is widely expected to succeed Starmer after emerging as the sole candidate to replace the outgoing leader.