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The Latest | Exit poll suggests UK's Labour Party set for a landslide election victory
Voters in the U.K. have cast their ballots in a national election to choose the 650 lawmakers who will sit in Parliament for the next five years. Polls closed at 10 a.m. local time (2100GMT) Thursday, and an exit poll suggested that the left-of-center Labour Party led by Keir...
Britain's Labour on track for huge majority, exit poll suggests, amid frustration with Conservatives
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Labour Party was headed for a huge majority in a parliamentary election on Thursday, an exit poll suggested, against a gloomy backdrop of economic malaise, mounting distrust in institutions and a fraying social fabric. The poll released moments after...
Who are the main players in the UK's upcoming national election?
LONDON (AP) — Millions of voters in Britain are going to the polls Thursday to choose a new House of Commons and a new government. Voters will elect 650 lawmakers representing as many constituencies, or local areas, and the leader of the party that returns the most lawmakers will...
Nigel Farage criticizes racist remarks by Reform UK worker. But he later called it a 'stitch-up'
LONDON (AP) — Anti-immigration British politician Nigel Farage on Friday criticized a worker for his Reform UK party who suggested migrants crossing the English Channel in boats should be used for “target practice.” But Farage later suggested that the episode had been a...
Fed up with the UK Conservatives, some voters turn to the anti-immigration Reform party for answers
CLACTON-ON-SEA, England (AP) — Dorothy Carr is fed up with how things are run in her hometown. It’s impossible to get a doctor's appointment through Britain's state-run health care system. Local buses have been canceled. There isn’t enough public housing. Like many others in...
Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, criticized for saying West provoked Putin to invade Ukraine
LONDON (AP) — Nigel Farage, leader of the right-wing Reform U.K party, is facing wide-ranging criticism across the political spectrum over his claim that the West provoked Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine, including of being an appeaser. In a BBC television...
What happened this week in the UK election campaign, from a betting controversy to Farage's ambition
LONDON (AP) — The U.K.'s general election campaign is less than two weeks away now, and the prevailing trends don't appear to have changed much. The left-of-center Labour Party is the clear favorite to defeat Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservatives, with Keir Starmer looking set...
Britain's rollercoaster-riding Liberal Democrat leader embraces stunts to gain election attention
LONDON (AP) — Most politicians try to avoid slips, stumbles and undignified photos. Not Ed Davey. The leader of Britain’s centrist Liberal Democrats has turned the country’s six-week general election campaign into a showreel of self-deprecating fun. Davey, 58,...
Britain's July 4 election is fast approaching. Rishi Sunak is running out of time to change the tune
LONDON (AP) — With less than three weeks until U.K. election day, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is running out of time to change an ominous tune for his Conservative Party. Sunak, who in recent days traveled to a Group of Seven summit and a Swiss conference on the Ukraine war, has...
UK's glum Conservatives try to shift the mood with a promise of tax cuts as polling day nears
LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Tuesday implored British voters, and his own party, to throw him a lifeline in the U.K.'s election, pledging to cut taxes and reduce immigration if his Conservative Party is reelected on July 4. With the Conservatives trailing the...
