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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has promised a “decade of national renewal” (Photo by Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images)

Labour tipped for historic win as UK voters go to the polls

If predictions are accurate, Rishi Sunak will on Friday visit head of state King Charles III to tender his resignation as prime minister

Rishi Sunak, UK prime minister, greets Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa’s president, during his state visit to 10 Downing Street in London, UK, on Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg via Getty Images

What the ANC can learn from the Tory meltdown

If South Africa’s governing party does end up losing its majority in future elections, it might never get it back

Time ticks for three horsemen of dystopia – Zuma, Trump and Boris

The past week has been a good week. All three have suffered serious setbacks, as they have once again been exposed as the cowards they truly are, for all the bravado

Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. (Photo by Frank Augstein – WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Pressure on Sunak is building after the UK local elections

The Tories are comforting themselves for their loss by arguing that historically every government during the mid-term suffers losses in local elections

Four people died last week after a small boat packed with migrants capsized in the Channel in freezing weather conditions

UK set for ruling on plan to deport migrants to Rwanda

Four people died last week after a small boat packed with migrants capsized in the Channel in freezing weather conditions

Prime Minister Mark Rutte

Dutch expected to apologise for 250 years of slavery

Prime minister expected to give speech on ‘meaningful moment’

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak meets Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky in Ukraine

UK’s Sunak exposes his naivety on foreign policy

This was evident in the British prime minister’s speech at the lord mayor’s banquet, which customarily focuses on foreign policy

Both employer and employee classes want government services for themselves and likewise want to pay minimal taxes.

A deficit spending scam destroyed Liz Truss, UK’s prime minister. Who is next?

UK governments borrow money for deficit spending from corporations and the rich. But the very beneficiaries of the tax cuts Truss proposed were these ‘investors’, who baulked

No one is sure what Sunak must do, but whatever it is, it’s not going to be easy in toxic British politics. (Photo by Tolga Akmen / AFP) (Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)

With Sunak as UK PM, let’s hope for bland times ahead

No one is sure what Sunak must do, but whatever it is, it’s not going to be easy in toxic British politics

Queen Elizabeth II smiles during a visit to officially open the new building at Thames Hospice on July 15, 2022 in Maidenhead, England. (Photo by Kirsty O’Connor-WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Queen Elizabeth II’s doctors ‘concerned’ for her health — Buckingham Palace

The 96-year-old monarch has been dogged by health problems since October last year that left her with difficulties walking and standing

Liz Truss, Britain’s Foreign Secretary is announced as the next Prime Minister at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre. ((Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Liz Truss named as UK’s third woman prime minister

The foreign secretary comfortably beat her rival, former finance minister Rishi Sunak, after a gruelling summer-long contest decided by just over 170 000 Conservative members

UK Prime Ministwr Boris Johnson. (Photo by Tolga Akmen – WPA Pool/Getty Images)

How Boris Johnson rigged British politics for the Tories

Johnson’s brief premiership has been a relentless assault on the UK’s freedoms – to organise, to protest, to vote

People entering the abandoned Presidential Secretariat at Galle Face in Colombo, Sri Lanka on July 10, 2022.(Photo by M.A.Pushpa Kumara/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

‘Tunisia Days’ ahead as inflation exerts political pressure

With high prices continuing to bear down on consumers the world over, leaders who fail to bring inflation to heel could face a reckoning

Boris Johnson, UK prime minister, makes a resignation speech outside 10 Downing Street in London, UK, on Thursday, July 7, 2022. Johnson is bowing to the inevitable after his government hemorrhaged dozens of ministers and junior aides, and members of his cabinet — including newly-appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer Nadhim Zahawi — told him to his face that he should step down. Photographer: Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images

‘The will of the party’: Johnson steps down as Conservative leader

The UK PM announced that he would step down after a slew of resignations from his top team in protest at his leadership

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson poses for a photo wearing boxing gloves emblazoned with “Get Brexit Done” during a stop in his General Election Campaign trail at Jimmy Egan’s Boxing Academy on November 19, 2019 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Frank Augstein – WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Brexit to exit: The rise and fall of Boris Johnson

The outgoing PM rode his luck throughout his career, bouncing back from a succession of setbacks and scandals

In parliament on Wednesday, Boris Johnson insisted the country needed “stable government, loving each other as Conservatives, getting on with our priorities”. (Photo by Denis Doyle/Getty Images)

Boris Johnson set to resign

More than 40 ministers and aides, including three cabinet members, have quit the government since late Tuesday, with resignations continuing to trickle in overnight.

UK Prime Ministwr Boris Johnson. (Photo by Tolga Akmen – WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Grilling for UK leader Boris Johnson after top ministers quit

The prime minister has faced lawmakers’ questions after two of the most senior figures in his government resigned. The finance and health ministers said they could no longer…

Johnson only narrowly survived a no-confidence vote among Conservative MPs a month ago. (Photo by Stefan Rousseau – WPA Pool/Getty Images)

UK PM Johnson on the brink after ministerial resignations

The 58-year-old leader’s grip on power is becoming more precarious by the minute

An employee works in a corridor during a media tour of the Flamanville 3 reactor at the Evolutionary Power Reactor (EPR) nuclear power plant, operated by Electricite de France SA (EDF), in Flamanville, France, on Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Despite the delays at Flamanville, President Emmanuel Macron has insisted France needs new reactors to replace some of EDF’s aging units and cope with an expected boom in clean-energy demand. Photographer: Benjamin Girette/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Can nuclear energy come back from the grave?

Because of the lead times involved, nuclear cannot offer an instant solution to today’s challenges. Within a decade, however, nuclear, alongside wind and solar, could undermine…

All politicians need luck and Boris Johnson –once described as a “greased piglet” – has had more than most in his career. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Boris Johnson: the ‘greased piglet’ slips away again

All politicians need luck and Boris Johnson –once described as a “greased piglet” – has had more than most in his career.