LONDON — Britain’s former finance minister Nadhim Zahawi joined Reform UK Monday, becoming the highest-profile Conservative to defect to Nigel Farage’s right-wing populist party. The ex-chancellor — unveiled as the surprise guest at a press conference in ... See more
LONDON — Choosing your Brexit camp was once the preserve of Britain’s Tories. Now Labour is joining in the fun. Six years after Britain left the EU, a host of loose — and mostly overlapping — groupings in the U.K.'s ruling party are thinking about precise... See more
LONDON — Nigel Farage said Wednesday that he rejects Britain’s plans to put U.K. troops on the ground in a postwar Ukraine. The leader of Reform UK, who opinion polls put on track to succeed Keir Starmer in 2029, accused the Labour prime minister of pledg... See more
LONDON — The government is preparing a bill that will give overarching powers to allow the U.K. to align with the EU over a wide suite of areas to give legal shape to their “reset” deal with the bloc. One U.K. official said a bill is due to be introduced ... See more
Good Monday morning. This is Dan Bloom, recovered from my food coma and raring to bring you this year’s Playbook awards. But first, there’s some news to get through. DRIVING THE DAY 2025 IN A NUTSHELL: No. 10 was probably hoping to spend today talking abo... See more
