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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (Photo: AP)

British PM Rishi Sunak reverses decision on COP27, says will attend climate summit

The Oppn described the reversed decision to attend as Sunak being

02 Nov 2022 4:49 PM

AA Edit | Rishi or Boris? UK’s next PM to need eco wisdom

It is clear as crystal that the Tories need to put on their thinking cap and choose a new leader, regardless of race and migrant background

22 Oct 2022 12:10 AM

The former finance minister who had forecast much of the economic crisis unleashed by Truss' mini-budget is seen as a safe pair of hands to take charge at 10 Downing Street. (Photo: AP)

Rishi Sunak holds firm as bookies' favourite to replace Liz Truss as UK PM

The 42-year-old is holding a solid 55 per cent lead with the Oddschecker betting odds aggregator

21 Oct 2022 5:26 PM

Former prime minister Boris Johnson. (Photo: AP)

Boris Johnson eyes comeback bid as UK Tories pick new leader

Former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak and House of Commons leader Penny Mordaunt are among the bookmakers' favourites along with Boris Johnson

21 Oct 2022 2:55 PM

Britain's Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party, Liz Truss, leaves from Balmoral Castle in Ballater, Scotland, on September 6, 2022, after meeting with Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and being invited to form a Government. (Photo: AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Liz Truss will have array of problems as soon as mourning ends

The first huge problem she will face as the new occupant of 10 Downing Street is the horrible kitsch wallpaper, plastered at PM’s residence

17 Sep 2022 12:00 AM

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, left, welcomes Liz Truss during an audience at Balmoral, Scotland, where she invited the newly elected leader of the Conservative party to become Prime Minister and form a new government, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. (Photo: AP)

AA Edit | Britain's 3rd woman PM set to face testing times

Tory Party members have voted Liz Truss in but the cream of her Cabinet ministers is expected to feature reality of multicultural Britain

07 Sep 2022 12:16 AM

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Can a ‘flexible’ Liz Truss usher in ‘Global Britain’?

Long the front-runner in the race to replace Boris Johnson, Ms Truss is the Conservatives’ fourth Prime Minister since the 2015 election

07 Sep 2022 12:05 AM

Farrukh Dhondy | When religions, cults dominate, truth a casualty & nations suffer

Religion has, throughout history, dominated the realms of politics and governance

13 Aug 2022 12:11 AM

Sunanda K Datta-Ray | UK bristles over migration, race as Sunak, Truss battle

It must be explained that Britons are not choosing a new government at this juncture

04 Aug 2022 1:20 AM

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits the Francis Crick Institute in London, Monday, July 11, 2022. (Leon Neal/Pool via AP)

New UK prime minister to be announced on September 5

Nominations will officially open and close on Tuesday, with a new PM set to be installed when parliament returns from the summer break

12 Jul 2022 10:53 AM

AA EDIT | Boris goes at last, but he leaves UK in a total mess

The story of his rise to power may have been extraordinary but, in his fall, it is morality that prevails

08 Jul 2022 11:56 PM

In this photo provided by UK Parliament, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, center, attends Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons in London, Wednesday, July 6, 2022. (AP)

Boris Johnson to resign, will stay UK PM until new leader elected

The move came after days of high drama and a steady stream of resignations from his Cabinet since Tuesday

07 Jul 2022 1:57 PM

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (AP)

AA Edit | Endgame may be near in Boris’ battle for survival

'Go Boris', 'Bye Boris' moments seem to have arrived, this time around with a ring of seeming finality

07 Jul 2022 3:15 AM

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson attend a news conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, June 17, 2022. (Photo: AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Trouble mounts for BoJo all over UK: Will Rwanda come to rescue?

Today the British government claims that Rwanda is the safest, most progressive, internationally engaged country in Africa

17 Jun 2022 11:02 PM

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (AFP)

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to face confidence vote

If Johnson is ousted it would spark a Conservative leadership contest, in which several prominent government ministers are likely to run

06 Jun 2022 1:37 PM

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | BoJo broke all the rules, but will stay, there’s no alternative…

Perhaps the Sue Gray report should be labelled 'fifty shades of shame'

28 May 2022 12:23 AM

Farrukh Dhondy | How will history remember BoJo: ‘Churchillian’ or for UK breakup?

BoJo fancies himself as a second Winston Churchill with constant posturing about defying Vladimir Putin as Churchill did with Adolf Hitler

13 May 2022 11:55 PM

Kishwar Desai | Clubbing is back, so is beachwear; women’s soccer draws all the fans

But even so, we are still in some ways under the influence of the pandemic

25 Apr 2022 12:59 AM

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi shakes hands with his Britain's counterpart Boris Johnson after a joint press briefing at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on April 22, 2022. (Photo: AFP)

India, UK deepens ties, aim at closing FTA by October

Boris says everyone respects India’s historical ties with Russia

23 Apr 2022 1:19 AM

A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologizing to MPs for the for the "partygate" fine and making statement to MPs on the situation in Ukraine following its invasion by Russia during the first session after the on Easter Recess, at the House of Commons, in London, on April 19, 2022. (AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Did BoJo lie? I have a dream… of what may be coming next!

The breaking of the law by defying it and partying when it was forbidden will be retrospectively made a criminal offence

22 Apr 2022 11:55 PM

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