Brexit

When I first moved to Washington, I couldn’t get the special relationship out of my head. I kept thinking of Margaret Thatcher in the Rose Garden and the smile of Tony Blair. I was utterly sure I’d get special attention here, with everything I knew about West…

The British national story goes like this: Here is the country whose empire once spanned the globe, and whose plucky citizens stood up to the Nazis—several years before the United States deigned to get involved in the Second World War. That mythology has been…

The "special relationship" has hit a rough patch of late. Britain's Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt on Tuesday lambasted President Donald Trump for what he called "disrespectful" comments toward Prime Minister Theresa May and the United Kingdom. This came…

Opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has said the United Kingdom's next prime minister must put their Brexit plan to a second referendum on membership of the European Union. In a letter to party members on Tuesday, Corbyn said the new ruling Conserva…

LONDON — Donald Trump has described Theresa May's handling of Brexit as "foolish" and a "disaster," and launched another attack on the United Kingdom's ambassador to the United States, labeling him a "very stupid guy" and a "pompous fool." The US President…

A few short years ago, the far left was resurgent. Fringe politicians like Britain’s Jeremy Corbyn, Greece’s Alexis Tsipras, and France’s Jean-Luc Mélenchon were turning into the standard-bearers of the mainstream left. Meanwhile, in the United States, Bernie…

He will have to rein in New Democracys legacy forces of cronyism and prioritize entrepreneurship and innovation. The old model wont work. The new prime minister is used to such challenges. Back in 2013, when he was minister of administrative reform and I met…

British officials scrambled to contain the damage from Mr. Darrochs unvarnished private assessments of the president and his administration. Britains trade minister, Liam Fox, said he planned to apologize to Mr. Trumps eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, for the l…

LONDON (Reuters) - British justice minister David Gauke said on Sunday he believed that parliament would find a way to stop a new prime minister taking Britain out of the European Union without a deal. Boris Johnson, the frontrunner to succeed Theresa May a…

“If you believe you’re a citizen of the world, you’re a citizen of nowhere,” said Theresa May near the beginning of her ill-fated premiership of the United Kingdom. An ugly, insular attempt to shame migrants and multinationals across the European Union, the t…