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With counting still underway in Scotland’s parliamentary election, Sturgeon’s is on track for a fourth term as first minister, winning 62 out of 86 seats declared thus far. However, 129 seats are up for grabs, and owing to Scotland’s convoluted voting system, Sturgeon’s Scottish National Party is likely to fall …

People not au fait with everyday British life might well have casually read headlines this week about John Lewis being a threat to Boris Johnson and wondered, “Who’s John Lewis and what in the name of tea and cricket is he going to do to Boris?” Americans might have thought …

Johnson, according to media reports this week, had a habit of handing out his mobile number to whoever he met, and has reportedly used the same number since at least 2006, two years before he became mayor of London and 13 before he became prime minister. The number itself is …

The prime minister was elected on a promise to get Brexit done. Central to that undertaking was an explicit manifesto commitment for the country to leave the EU as one United Kingdom, a union of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. He either lied to the British people when he made …

Boris Johnson is set to announce a raft of legislative proposals aimed at curtailing activities of foreign agents in Britain at the forthcoming Queen’s Speech on May 11.   Within the draft bill is a requirement for any individual working on behalf of a foreign government to register with British authorities …

The Man in Black wanted us to be in no doubt during his interview this week with Sky News: it was the lockdown whatdunit. “It is very, very important for everybody to understand,” Johnson said, “that the reduction in these numbers, in hospitalisations, in deaths, in infections, has not been …

The UK government is facing mounting opposition from backbench MPs and members of the Labour Party over plans to use Covid vaccine passports to fully reopen the country’s economy. On Monday, Boris Johnson refused to deny reports that the measure was set to be introduced and, a day later, Vaccine …

The UK government’s long-awaited ‘Integrated Review’ has finally been released. Officially billed as “a comprehensive articulation” of London’s “national security and international policy,” it intends to “[shape] the open international order of the future.” An audacious ambition indeed, and the Review’s pledges are certainly bold – among other things, Whitehall …

Many years ago, a major conservative think tank in London commissioned me to write a report arguing that the United Kingdom should cut defence spending. Before I could finish it, the think tank contacted me to say that the project had been scrubbed: a conservative MP on its board had …

Brexit was supposed to see Britain stand alone, control its borders and set its own agenda. But the UK is beginning a new generation of Washington mimicking. It began with the cringeworthy attempt to recreate The White House look in Downing Street in the form of a £2.6 million media …