Prime Minister David Cameron on Sunday ruled out giving Scotland another independence referendum despite spectacular gains by Scottish nationalists in a UK-wide election, saying Scots had “emphatically” rejected a breakaway only last year. Cameron, who was re-elected with a surprise
Forget the worries about economic austerity, Scotland’s future and Britain’s place in Europe. In the wake of last week’s British general election, a weightier question looms. Among Britain’s fiercely competitive tabloid papers, the race is on to find out what
LONDON, May 10 (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron is to make finance minister George Osborne his lead negotiator on Europe and speed up his push to win concessions from the EU before a planned referendum on Britain’s membership of
Northern Ireland‘s Democratic Unionist Party retained eight seats in Britain’s parliament on Friday and said they would consider supporting a minority Conservative government in exchange for a package of financial and political concessions. An exit poll gave the Conservatives 316
(Reuters) – Chile President Michelle Bachelet said she will reshuffle her entire cabinet in the next few days, a surprise announcement that indicates the depth of her concern about a collapse in her popularity.
(Reuters) – Britons began voting on Thursday in a tight election that could yield a weak government, push the world’s fifth-largest economy a step closer to leaving the European Union and stoke Scottish desires for secession. Final opinion polls showed
(Reuters) – Britain faces a disruptive second election before Christmas if either of the two main parties try to govern alone as minority governments after Thursday’s ballot, Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister and Liberal Democrat leader, warned on Tuesday.
(Reuters) – Detractors have vilified her as the most dangerous woman in Britain and an existential threat to the United Kingdom. New-found admirers have lauded her as an astute operator who has shaken up Britain’s male-dominated political establishment. Either way,
(Reuters) – British Labour Party leader Ed Miliband said on Thursday he’d rather stay in opposition than do a deal with Scottish nationalists after a close national election next week in which no party is expected to win a majority.
(Reuters) – A Nepali-French search and rescue team pulled a 28-year-old man, Rishi Khanal, from a collapsed apartment block in the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu on Tuesday after he had spent around 80 hours in a room with three dead bodies.
(Reuters) – Saudi King Salman appointed a new heir and made his young son second in line to rule on Wednesday, a major shift in power toward two princes who have overseen a more assertive stance at a time of almost unprecedented regional turmoil.
(Reuters) KIEV – Emergency services were battling on Tuesday to prevent Ukraine’s largest forest fire since 1992 from spreading towards the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said.
(Reuters) – Britain’s economy slowed more sharply than expected the first three months of 2015 in a setback for Prime Minister David Cameron who has staked his campaign for re-election next week on the strength of the recovery. Gross domestic
BEIJING (Reuters) – China will likely cut the number of its central government-owned conglomerates to 40 through massive mergers, as Beijing pushes forward a sweeping plan to overhaul the country’s underperforming state sector, state media reported on Monday.
(Reuters) – The Scottish National Party could wield “enormous clout” in the British government after a May 7 national election, party leader Nicola Sturgeon said on Monday, promising to block Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron from returning to power. A
(Reuters) – Scotland is likely to win self rule in the next few years while the economic divide between the international powerhouse of London and the rest of the United Kingdom will deepen, media tycoon Rupert Murdoch said on Sunday.
LONDON, April 26 (Reuters) – The leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party on Sunday ruled out an informal deal with Scottish nationalists after a May 7 election if his party fails to win an overall majority, something he has previously
The BBC has been accused of bias after yesterday’s Today programme ended with a debate on the state of the election featuring three guests, who all savaged David Cameron and his party. Scottish comedian Rhona Cameron called the Conservatives “a
(Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron will court English voters on Friday ahead of a tight UK-wide election, promising to create a separate rate of income tax for England and to give English lawmakers greater powers if re-elected. Attempting
(Reuters) – European Union leaders will effectively reverse a cutback in rescue operations the Mediterranean on Thursday to try to prevent record numbers of people drowning as they try to flee war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa.
(Reuters) – Like millions of other British voters, Karl Wakeman supported Margaret Thatcher’s Conservatives in the 1980s and then Tony Blair’s New Labour in the late 1990s. But now, as Britain heads towards a general election on May 7, the
(Reuters) – Tesco plunged to an annual loss of 6.4 billion pounds on Wednesday, the worst in its 96-year history, after shoppers deserted Britain’s biggest retailer and forced it to write down the value of its stores. Hurt by an
(Reuters) – A bomb exploded in front of the Spanish embassy in the Libyan capital late on Monday, residents said, the latest in a string of attacks on foreign missions in the North African country.
(Reuters) – The U.S. State Department said on Monday it might talk with Iran about promoting regional stability, noting it had been open to including Iran in past efforts to achieve a Syrian peace deal if Tehran had altered its policy.
(Reuters) – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo met senior Cuban officials in Havana on Monday as the head of a high-powered business delegation looking to take advantage of President Barack Obama’s easing of restrictions with the Communist-led island.
