Margaret Thatcher

Keir Starmer and Donald Trump will likely be all smiles during their meeting Thursday — but a frosty encounter between the two nations’ leaders isn’t unusual.

The U.K.’s ruling Labour Party has a 103-year winning streak in Wales, but that could end next May. POLITICO talked to officials, politicians and disillusioned steelworkers to track the rapid rise of Farage’s Reform UK.

Donald Trump may have ruffled feathers with his closest neighbors in recent weeks, but he has a willing ally in South America. Argentina’s President Javier Milei has …

Top tips for Britain’s new ambassador from people who’ve done the job and lived to tell the tale.

Labour’s decision to grant the geopolitical archipelago to Mauritius has sparked criticism from all sides.

Trump’s new secretary of state has been seen as a “committed internationalist.” The new right that swept his boss into power may be less interested in all that.

From minister of the year to WTF moment, Westminster’s essential newsletter picks the winners of 2024.

In an interview with POLITICO, Teresa Ribera said Donald Trump’s expected climate withdrawal presents an opportunity for others to boost their clean industries.

POLITICO spent the afternoon on a soon-to-be-abandoned North Sea gas plant that’s hoping to ditch fossil fuels with government help.

Kemi Badenoch will attend the International Democracy Union forum to learn lessons from center-right parties and build links with U.S. Republicans.

Contender for head of the U.K. Conservative Party calls for more nuanced approach to relationship with Europe.

A British tea room in the swing state of Georgia plays host to some unlikely political views.

A once proud fleet of power plants is about to be reduced to one last, lonely nuke.

The ghost of Margaret Thatcher continued to haunt the Conservatives as an irrelevant beauty pageant played out in Birmingham.

Robert Jenrick says he made the move because he respects “strong women.”

Despite the best efforts of party bigwigs, Britain’s annual gatherings of political animals frequently descend into chaos.

Keir Starmer was pressed about taking payments from pensioners this winter — but ducked the details.

New U.K. PM found old U.K. PM’s portrait “unsettling” and asked for it to be taken down.

New British PM’s biographer says he found the portrait “unsettling” — and Conservatives are fuming.

From Ozempic to “bulletproof” coffee, politicians are just like the rest of us when it comes to seeking a shortcut to slim.

The U.K. prime minister can’t afford to get tangled up in a war with labor unions. His green crusade could make it inevitable.

Sorry Boris, your Euroskeptic vision has failed in so many ways.

History and polling suggest Labour Leader Keir Starmer could set a new record on July 4.