Andy Burnham becomes UK Labour leader; next stop – prime minister
Andy Burnham, nicknamed the ‘King of the North’, was elected leader of Britain’s governing Labour Party on Friday, the final step before becoming its seventh prime minister in a ...
Both UK Cypriot MPs back Burnham to be next UK prime minister
Both British Cypriot members of the House of Commons have offered their support to former Manchester mayor Andy Burnham to succeed Sir Keir Starmer as the United Kingdom’s prime ...
UK’s Starmer considers political future, could decide as early as Monday
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was considering his political future on Sunday, after rival Andy Burnham’s decisive election victory to parliament prompted more ministers in the governing Labour Party ...
UK by-election
UK’s Starmer suffers embarrassing defeat as Greens seize Labour stronghold
Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party suffered an embarrassing election defeat on Friday in an area of Greater Manchester that it had dominated for almost a century, a loss ...
Disgraced ex-minister/ambassador Mandelson quits Britain’s Labour Party after new Epstein reports
Former British government minister Peter Mandelson said he had resigned as a member of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party after new reports of his ties with late U....
British MP given honorary doctorate by university in north
A British member of parliament from the country’s ruling Labour Party has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the Girne American University in Kyrenia, the university announced on Sunday.
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US elections: Foreign meddling
Trump campaign accuses UK’s Labour Party of ‘blatant foreign election interference’
Donald Trump’s campaign has accused British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party of “blatant foreign interference” in the U.S. presidential election after its volunteers travelled to the ...
Labour is meeting for first conference in govt for over a decade – but will faithful still be in mood for a party?
The Labour party is gathering in Liverpool for its first annual conference in government for 15 years.
The party faithful ought to make the most of the occasion. This will be ...
UK Labour’s support for BBF
President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday had a call with Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer where they discussed “recent regional developments” as well as the Cyprus problem.
According to a ...
UK ELECTIONS
Both Labour and Tories lack ‘the vision thing’
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak walked a few steps to a lectern outside his official residence at 10 Downing Street in London last Wednesday to announce that he was calling an ...
Broken Britain: right-wing defection drama
Politics in the UK turned farcical last week when Natalie Elphicke, the Conservative member for Dover, defected to the Labour Party. In the jargon, she crossed the floor and sat ...
MP Bambos Charalambous readmitted to Labour after investigation
UK former shadow minister Bambos Charalambous was reinstated as a Labour MP after a 10-month-long investigation into his conduct.
Charalambous was suspended from his post in June as MP for ...
Labour MP Bambos Charalambous suspended over conduct
Britain’s shadow foreign office minister and Labour MP Bambos Charalambous has been suspended after a complaint over his conduct, it emerged on Friday.
Charalambous, raised in London to Cypriot ...
UK’s Labour has 33-pt lead over ruling Conservatives – YouGov poll
Britain’s opposition Labour party has surged to a 33-point lead over the ruling Conservatives, according to a YouGov poll on Thursday, after days of chaos in financial markets triggered ...
UK Labour’s Starmer to resign if fined for COVID rule breach
British Labour Party leader Keir Starmer said on Monday he would resign if police decide he broke Covid-19 rules, putting pressure on Prime Minister Boris Johnson who has refused to ...