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President Donald Trump and UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham are scheduled to speak Friday as tensions build between the two governments over Russia’s war in Ukraine and the possibility of renewed US escalation against Iran.

The UK pushed back against the description of Vladimir Putin as a “humanitarian” given by US President Donald Trump’s Ukraine war envoy, saying it rejected that characterization of the Russian leader.

The United Kingdom is allowing a proposed gas drilling project in the North Sea to move forward, a major reversal in the country’s climate change policy, which previously banned new fossil fuel drilling in the region. The sign-off on the project, known as Jackdaw, had been expected for months, as new Prime Minister Andy Burnham […]

Marine Le Pen and Donald Trump are arsonists who play at being firefighters. Nigel Farage is finding that act harder to pull off in Andy Burnham’s Britain An election where one side represents chaos will nearly always be won by the party that promises order instead. Public fatigue after years of turbulent Tory rule accounted for Labour’s 2024 landslide victory more than any policy in Keir Starmer’s manifesto. Across the Channel, Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Rally (RN), is currently on course to win next year’s presidential poll with a pledge of “restored authority and security” for a country that has spent years cycling between enervating stasis and explosive crisis. Le Pen has been boosted in recent days by scenes of city centres ablaze and shops being looted as student demonstrations mutated into riots. Street confrontation is a more standard feature of the political repertoire in France than in most settled democracies, but the destruction was disturbing by any measure. Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...