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How UK’s Online Safety Bill fell victim to never-ending political crisis
LONDON — Britain’s attempt to rein in the internet has turned into a political omnishambles. The country’s masterplan — known as the Online Safety Bill — would require social media giants like...
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How politics scuppered Britain’s grand plan for tech
LONDON — The United Kingdom’s digital ambitions have a problem: its politicians. On paper, the country remains Europe’s tech powerhouse. Local startups raised $29.9 billion last year, more than French...
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WhatsApp panic stalks Westminster after mass leak of private messages
LONDON — “I’d resign and move to another country.” This was the reaction of one U.K. civil servant involved in the Whitehall response to the COVID-19 pandemic, when asked to consider how they’d...
View ArticleRishi Sunak says civil service must be ‘impartial’ amid row over Sue Gray’s...
LONDON — Rishi Sunak stressed that political impartiality is “a fundamental principle of how the civil service works,” amid a row over top official Sue Gray quitting to take on a key job with Keir...
View ArticleGary Lineker saga exposes weakness at the heart of the BBC
Gary Lineker: 1, BBC: 0. That was the consensus in Westminster on Monday as the U.K.’s national broadcaster was forced into an apology and an embarrassing climbdown following a bitter impartiality...
View ArticleSNP lawmaker still under investigation for Nadine Dorries tweets, watchdog says
LONDON — An SNP MP remains under investigation over a series of critical tweets about the TV presenter and former Tory Cabinet minister Nadine Dorries, parliament’s standards watchdog has announced....
View ArticleKeep calm and carry on: 5 MPs who shrugged off Westminster’s revolving door...
LONDON — Who’s afraid of ACOBA? The U.K.’s revolving door watchdog — snappily called the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments — is back in the headlines as Westminster awaits its verdict on Sue...
View ArticleArise, Sir Jacob! Boris Johnson doles out knighthoods to top Brexiteers
LONDON — Jacob Rees-Mogg and a series of arch-Brexiteers are to be given knighthoods and damehoods as a part of Boris Johnson’s newly-released resignation honors list. Several aides closely connected...
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Britain’s so over Boris Johnson
LONDON — He was meant to be too electable to ignore. The bad boy of British politics, who possessed a cat-like ability to come back from the dead, former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s success rested...
View ArticleBoris Johnson: I’ll be back
LONDON — Boris Johnson channeled Arnold Schwarzenegger, vowed to fight for “total Brexit” and carried on beefing with his successor as he awaits what’s expected to be a damning report on his conduct....
View ArticleGet out ‘world’s smallest violin’ for Boris Johnson, says UK Labour
LONDON — The opposition Labour Party isn’t amused by a war of words between Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his predecessor-but-one Boris Johnson. The two Conservative politicians are locked in an...
View ArticlePMQs scorecard: Sunak and Starmer bicker about Boris as everyone melts
Prime minister’s questions: a shouty, jeery, very occasionally useful advert for British politics. Here’s what you need to know from today’s session in POLITICO’s weekly run-through. What they sparred...
View ArticleUnhappy birthday, Boris: MPs will vote to punish Johnson as he turns 59
LONDON — Worst birthday ever? Three-and-a-half years ago Boris Johnson led Conservative MPs to a thumping election victory. On Monday, they’ll vote on whether or not to ban him from parliament. In a...
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Boris Johnson fumbles the Trump playbook
LONDON — “Britain Trump” may have a long wait on his hands if he’s going to stage the kind of comeback dreamed of by the former American president. Boris Johnson’s exit did nothing to discourage...
View ArticleSNP MP cleared of bullying Nadine Dorries
LONDON — Scottish National Party MP John Nicolson has been cleared of bullying Britain’s ex-culture secretary Nadine Dorries. Nicolson successfully appealed a judgment by parliament’s standards...
View ArticleBoris Johnson allies accused of ‘improper pressure’ on committee probing him
LONDON — Boris Johnson and seven of his close allies put “improper pressure” on the House of Commons privileges committee as it investigated his knowledge of multiple coronavirus rule-breaking parties...
View ArticleBoris Johnson’s ‘political assassination’ laid bare in new book from ally...
LONDON — What brought down Boris Johnson — a cascade of self-inflicted scandals or a shadowy plot? The former British PM’s closest political ally Nadine Dorries believes the latter — and is penning a...
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UK by-elections: How the parties are spinning a something-for-everyone night
LONDON — A triple whammy of by-elections in the U.K. has given everyone in Westminster something to cheer — and someone to blame. Rishi Sunak’s Tories took a beating in two out of the three contests...
View ArticleUK’s Dorries formally resigns as MP with blistering attack on Sunak
Tory stalwart and Boris Johnson loyalist Nadine Dorries announced her resignation from the U.K. House of Commons on Sunday “with immediate effect” while simultaneously attacking Prime Minister Rishi...
View ArticleLabour wins two Conservative safe seats in woeful by-election night for Sunak
Labour won two Conservative safe seats in a double by-election victory that raises fresh questions for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Voters in Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth swung significantly to...
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Westminster’s most gruesome rivalries
LONDON — There are bad spirits lurking in Westminster this All Hallows’ Eve. More out of control than Frankenstein’s monster … more intense than the age-old battle between vampires and werewolves …...
View ArticleBoris Johnson brands Rishi Sunak a ‘stooge’ put in place by Dominic Cummings
LONDON — Boris Johnson accused his successor Rishi Sunak of being a “stooge” installed at the behest of Johnson-adviser-turned nemesis Dominic Cummings. In his most direct criticism yet of the current...
View ArticleNigel Farage set for testicle-chomping ‘I’m A Celebrity’ reality show
LONDON — Never mind the animal bollocks, here’s Nigel Farage. After much speculation, the controversial former Brexit Party leader was confirmed Monday night as a contestant on this year’s “I’m A...
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Boris Johnson fights to salvage his legacy. Westminster is already forgetting...
LONDON — In a strip-lit hearing room in central London this week, 1,353 days after his first COVID lockdown, Boris Johnson finally testified to the U.K.’s inquiry into the pandemic. The ex-prime...
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POLITICO London Playbook awards 2023: All the winners from a wild year in UK...
LONDON — It was meant to be the year two quiet technocrats, Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer, brought calm to the fevered Westminster swamp. Unfortunately SW1 didn’t get the memo. Politics remained pretty...
View ArticleDominic Cummings says Sunak sought ‘secret deal’ for election help
LONDON — Dominic Cummings — adviser-turned-nemesis of Boris Johnson — claimed Saturday he held talks with Rishi Sunak about a “secret deal” to help the prime minister win the next election. The...
View ArticleKemi Badenoch vs the world: Everyone the Tory rising star has beefed with
LONDON — Not besties with Kemi? You’re far from the only one. The U.K.’s business and trade secretary Kemi Badenoch, widely tipped as a future Tory leader, has been unafraid to skirmish with...
View ArticleWestminster ‘honey trap’ scandal: Tory MP Wragg resigns from top roles after...
Senior Tory MP William Wragg resigned from two prestigious backbench roles Monday night as the Westminster honey trap scandal continues to spiral. The Hazel Grove MP quit as chair of the Commons...
View ArticleHow to prepare a secret Tory leadership campaign
Listen on Spotify Apple Music Google Play Acast After the Tories’ drubbing in the local elections and the many, many rumors about efforts to unseat Rishi Sunak, Aggie Chambre talks us through how to...
View ArticleTony Blair’s NHS dream? Fewer GPs, more chatbots.
LONDON — Tony Blair proposes closing most local GP surgeries and replacing them with super primary care centers, a leaked report shows. The former prime minister’s report envisages a radical overhaul...
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9 times politicians reached for Ozempic — or more trad diets
LONDON — In 2024, everything is political — even dieting. And especially when it involves Ozempic. In an interview with the London Playbook newsletter, Tory Party leadership hopeful Robert Jenrick...
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