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  • Monday, 11 November, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Trump’s return adds new strains on UK foreign policy

    Keir Starmer’s government will probably move towards deeper UK-EU relations under geopolitical pressures

  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    News in-depthDonald Trump
    Flattery, distraction and golf: world leaders dust off their Trump playbooks

    Handling the US president-elect’s erratic personality seen as key to future relations with Washington

    Montage featuring Andrzej Duda Giorgia Meloni, Ursula von der Leyen and Emmanuel Macron in front of the US flag
  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    UK politics
    Jonathan Powell picked as UK national security adviser

    Former chief of staff under Tony Blair will have key role in developing British relationship with Donald Trump

    Jonathan Powell speaks at a conference
  • Wednesday, 6 November, 2024
    Lammy seeks to repair Trump relationship after ‘Nazi’ jibe

    UK foreign secretary offers congratulations to US president-elect six years after branding him a ‘sociopath’

    Montage featuring David Lammy, Donald Trump and the flags of the UK and US
  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    Alec Russell
    How the west should re-engage with the global south

    The erosion of the post-1945 world order requires the UK and its allies to define new forms of multilateralism

    South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attend a family photo during the BRICS summit in Kazan
  • Monday, 28 October, 2024
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    Argentina ready to boost flights to Falklands, says foreign minister

    Diana Mondino says airlines will have to decide ‘frequency’ in sign of warmer relations with the UK over the islands

    Christ Church Cathedral in Stanley, Falkland Islands
  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    UK-EU ‘reset’ talks delayed until next year

    Negotiations expected to focus on post-Brexit fishing rights and electricity trading arrangements, which expire in 2026

    An anti-Brexit protester waves the EU and union flags outside the Houses of Parliament in June 2016
  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    UK defence
    Head of UK armed forces gains new powers in push to improve readiness for war

    Government launches biggest structural shake-up of Ministry of Defence in 50 years

    An Ajax Ares tank, an armoured personnel carrier, on the training range at Bovington Camp
  • Wednesday, 23 October, 2024
    Starmer rejects calls for slavery reparations ahead of Commonwealth summit

    PM plans to focus on ‘future-facing challenges’ such as climate change but Caribbean leaders hope to raise issue

    Keir Starmer
  • Wednesday, 23 October, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Trump accuses UK Labour party of interference in White House race

    Keir Starmer seeks to defuse potential transatlantic dispute

    Donald Trump points his finger as he speaks during a roundtable with Latino community leaders
  • Tuesday, 22 October, 2024
    UK to slash overseas aid in Budget as asylum seeker costs rise

    International development organisations warn country’s contribution could slump to its lowest level in 17 years

    People distribute UK Aid food and blankets
  • Monday, 21 October, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    UK will provide $3bn towards G7 loan for Ukraine

    US and Japan only member nations still to clarify their contributions to $50bn package

    Volodymyr Zelensky addresses members of the Ukrainian parliament in Kyiv. The room is filled with parliament members and other officials, with Ukrainian flags displayed on desks. Zelensky stands at a podium.
  • Monday, 21 October, 2024
    Commonwealth of Nations
    Starmer flies to Samoa to answer tricky questions from Commonwealth allies

    Slavery reparations and Britain’s shrinking aid budget up for debate at annual summit this week

    Painted portraits of King Charles III and Queen Camilla are displayed at a school in Apia, Samoa
  • Friday, 18 October, 2024
    Rayner takes control of decision on new Chinese embassy in London

    Local inquiry to be held following four years of protests against China’s planning proposals

    Royal Mint Court
  • Thursday, 17 October, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    UK cracks down on Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’

    Sanctions include restrictions on six vessels recently identified by the FT

    UK foreign secretary David Lammy
  • Thursday, 17 October, 2024
    Lammy to raise human rights issues and Beijing’s support for Russia on China trip

    UK foreign secretary keen to boost engagement with Asian country as well as address concerns in potential reset to relations

    UK foreign secretary David Lammy with Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in July
  • Wednesday, 16 October, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    UK considering sanctions against far-right Israeli ministers

    Starmer tells MPs that government is ‘looking at’ imposing curbs over ‘abhorrent’ comments on Gaza

    Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaking during Prime Minister’s Questions
  • Monday, 14 October, 2024
    EU countries call on Britain to commit to Brussels-led peacekeeping mission

    Foreign ministers urge UK to take part in conflict prevention as London pushes for deeper security co-operation

    David Lammy
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    UK politics
    UK gives Chagos Islands to Mauritius to secure military base

    Deal comes after 50 years of wrangling over the remote but strategically important archipelago

    Demonstrators from the Chagos Islands hold up flags in Port Louis, Mauritius, in 2019
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Brexit
    UK and EU pledge to hold regular leaders’ summits from 2025

    Von der Leyen and Starmer agree closer co-operation between London and Brussels

    UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer meets European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at her headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday
  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    Starmer looks for post-Brexit ‘reset’ in meeting with EU leaders

    UK prime minister travels to Brussels for talks on improving ties with bloc amid warnings not to expect an easy ride

    Keir Starmer speaks to media
  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    Red lines remain as Starmer and von der Leyen attempt to reset UK-EU relations

    Old arguments over energy trading and fishing rights are a potential stumbling block in the talks

    Ursula von der Leyen and Keir Starmer
  • Sunday, 29 September, 2024
    Reeves set to attend meeting of EU finance ministers

    Chancellor expected to participate in event involving Eurozone countries

    UK chancellor Rachel Reeves
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Starmer must set clear goals for UK-EU reset, warn diplomats

    UK prime minister will meet European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels on Wednesday

    Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer (L) speaks with President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen on the sidelines of the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly
  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Keir Starmer plays down significance of Storm Shadow decision for Ukraine

    UK prime minister says country’s ‘victory plan’ will not be about sole issue of long-range missiles

    An RAF Tornado with Storm Shadow missiles under its fuselage
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