Solihull, a market town in England’s West Midlands, is home to one of Britain’s largest car factories, run by the luxury carmaker Jaguar Land Rover. The factory, a collection of low-slung gray buildings spread over 300 acres, does not tower…
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Israel Turns Away 2 British Lawmakers
Britain and Israel traded sharp criticisms this weekend after Israel blocked two British lawmakers from entering the country and sent them back to London. The members of Parliament, Abtisam Mohamed and Yuan Yang, both of whom belong to the governing…
U.K. Labour Lawmaker Suspended From Party After Arrest
Britain’s governing Labour Party on Saturday said it had suspended Dan Norris, one of its lawmakers in Parliament, after he was arrested by the police. Mr. Morris “was immediately suspended by the Labour Party upon being informed of his arrest,”…
Garbage Strike in UK’s Second Largest City Leaves Trash Piled High
A pungent smell of rotting garbage fills the air. Bulging sacks of trash pile high, some spilling their festering contents. And, with vermin plaguing parts of the city, at least one resident has claimed to have been bitten by a…
Keir Starmer Talks Trump, Russia-Ukraine War and the Fragile Europe-US Alliance
With a staccato burst, a horn sounded in the control room of the H.M.S. Vanguard, sending the crew of the nuclear-armed Royal Navy submarine to battle stations. The voice of the commanding officer crackled over the intercom. “Set condition 1SQ,”…
Keir Starmer Wants to Abolish NHS England: What to Know About His Plan
What did Prime Minister Keir Starmer say about England’s health service? In a speech on Thursday, Mr. Starmer made a surprise announcement that N.H.S. England was to be scrapped. That definitely does not mean the abolition of Britain’s National Health…
‘On the Tightrope’: Britain Tries to Bridge a Widening Trans-Atlantic Gap
Five years after it left the European Union, Britain may have finally found a new role on the global stage — a gig that looks curiously like its old one. In the frantic few weeks since President Trump upended the…
An Unexpected Trump Bump for the World’s Centrists
In Britain, a languishing prime minister is suddenly a statesman, while his up-and-coming populist rival has been thrown on his heels. In Canada, the incumbent Liberal Party has a chance to win an election long thought out of reach. In…
Over a Dozen Conservative Party Donors Fund Britain’s Populist Reform U.K.
Nigel Farage’s insurgent Reform U.K. party has attracted more than a dozen donors from Britain’s once dominant Conservative Party, new data reveals, underlining the threat the Tories face from a right-wing populist party that models itself on President Trump’s MAGA…
Europe Races to Repair a Split Between the U.S. and Ukraine
European leaders raced on Sunday to salvage Ukraine’s ruptured relationship with the United States, with Britain and France assembling a “coalition of the willing” to develop a plan for ending Ukraine’s war with Russia. They hope this effort will win…