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Keir Starmer vows to fight on despite Labour’s heavy losses in local elections

Keir Starmer pledges to fight on despite Labour’s losses in local elections, but doubts over his leadership grow.

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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer gives an update on the situation in the Middle East at Downing Street Briefing Room, in London, Britain, March 5, 2026.
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi looks at her watch during a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, March 19, 2026.

A golden age of diplomacy: A thing of the past? - comment

Whether the shift in diplomatic tone and practice was inevitable or whether we’ve reached a tipping point, only time will tell. But what’s clear is that the world will never be the same.

|BySHIFRA JACOBS
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaks as demonstrators hold flags outside the Iranian embassy during a rally in support of nationwide protests in Iran, in London, Britain, January 12, 2026.

UK's Reform party plans to stop an immigration 'invasion,' promising to create ICE-style agency

With Reform ahead in opinion polls ahead of an election due no later than August 2029, the party led by Brexit veteran Nigel Farage is ramping up policy announcements.

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Mayor of London Sadiq Khan speaks at the London Tech Week in London, Britain, June 12, 2023.

Brexit was 'biggest act of self harm,' reversing it is 'ultimate goal,' London Mayor Khan says

Khan has declared that he wants Britain to eventually rejoin the EU, calling for a return to the single market and the customs union.

|ByESTHER DAVIS

Antisemitic poster removed from Labour Party Conference by Sussex police

The police's reasoning behind the poster removal was racism.

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019ByZACHARY KEYSER
A man runs past a Labour Party sign with pictures of both Jeremy Corbyn and Britain’s new prime minister, Boris Johnson, in north London

Jeremy Corbyn faces scandal with revealed document accusing Israel of genocide

Moderate party members have called out Corbyn's stance; say British Jews are fearful of what a government under his leadership might look like.

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019ByZACHARY KEYSER
Second day of the Labour party annual conference in Brighton

Austria to give citizenship to descendants of Holocaust survivors

The scope of the new law includes both those who fled Austria and those who survived concentration camps.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019ByROSSELLA TERCATIN
Austrian Parliament in Vienna, Austria March 19, 2016

Your Taxes: Brexiting to Israel

The Brexit breakdown may drive some Brits to contemplate aliyah. Israel grants a 10-year tax holiday on foreign income for new immigrants, but homework is needed as exemplified below.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019ByLEON HARRIS, MARILYN MCKEEVER
An Israel Shekel note

Scottish court rules Johnson's decision to suspend Parliament is unlawful

An appeal to the Supreme Court will begin on Tuesday.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019ByREUTERS
BORIS JOHNSON, one of many contenders for the Conservative leadership

A Brexit Party politician owns London’s oldest smoked salmon factory

In 1999, a fire consumed three-quarters of its factory. A year later, flooding forced it to relocate.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019ByCNAAN LIPHSHIZ/JTA
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Britain's Johnson tells parliament: I will not delay Brexit

For the second time in a week, lawmakers rejected Johnson's request to try and break the deadlock through an early national election.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019ByREUTERS
BORIS JOHNSON, one of many contenders for the Conservative leadership

British House of Commons’ Jewish speaker John Bercow to resign

Bercow’s move assures that the current Parliament will elect his successor, not a new government after a potential snap election.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019ByGABE FRIEDMAN/JTA
John Bercow

Queen Elizabeth approves law seeking to block Oct. 31 no-deal Brexit

Prime Minister Boris Johnson declared when he was voted to lead the Conservative Party that Britain would leave the EU on October 31 "no matter what."

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019ByREUTERS
BRITAIN’S PRIME Minister Boris Johnson – he might ignite a post-Brexit Britain prosperity and instill in Britain a new spirit of confidence.

Corbyn blocks UK snap election scheduled for Sukkot

According to the World Jewish Congress, about 260,000 Jews live in Great Britain.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019ByROSSELLA TERCATIN, HEDDY BREUER ABRAMOWITZ
BRITAIN’S PRIME Minister Boris Johnson – he might ignite a post-Brexit Britain prosperity and instill in Britain a new spirit of confidence.