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    • Friday, 1 December, 2023
      News in-depthUK politics
      Rishi Sunak faces migration dilemma as Tory civil war worsens

      Conservative MPs urge prime minister not to dilute the UK’s commitment to human rights treaties and laws

      A montage of a photo of Rishi Sunak in front of a bar chart
    • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
      UK Budget
      Hunt says budget too tight to restore overseas aid funding

      UK chancellor commits to lift spending to previous levels when it becomes fiscally possible

      Jeremy Hunt, UK chancellor
    • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
      Sunak dismisses talk of Britain rejoining EU

      UK prime minister steps up attack on Greek counterpart over Elgin Marbles

      The so-called Elgin Marbles in the British Museum in London
    • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
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      Labour loses Muslim support over stance on Israel-Hamas ceasefire

      ‘Heartbroken’ voters angered by Keir Starmer’s position, threatening party’s political momentum ahead of election

      IT worker Mohammed Rahman outside a mosque in Bethnal Green, London, England
    • Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Britain’s pointless diplomatic faux pas with Greece

      Rishi Sunak’s snub to his counterpart over the Parthenon sculptures was an own goal

    • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
      Kosovo
      West has no ‘backbone’ in Kosovo-Serbia dispute, says British MP

      Alicia Kearns compares western tiptoeing around Belgrade with failed attempts to appease Vladimir Putin

      British MP Alicia Kearns at the Conservative party conference in Manchester, England, in October 2023
    • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
      ExplainerIsrael-Hamas war
      How public opinion on the Israel-Hamas war has shifted

      Surveys have picked up significant changes in the US and Europe that are rippling through national politics

      Pro-Palestine and pro-Israel protesters in New York and Washington
    • Saturday, 18 November, 2023
      Person in the News
      David Cameron: a return from the political wilderness

      The former premier needs a second act after his own spell in Downing Street left him carrying Brexit and austerity baggage

      Illustration of David Cameron as a Jack-in-the-box popping out on a spring in Whitehall.
    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
      News in-depthUK politics
      David Cameron joined by familiar faces as he returns to UK politics

      New foreign secretary attends first cabinet in more than 7 years after Rishi Sunak reshuffles top team

      Foreign secretary David Cameron and minister for development in the foreign office Andrew Mitchell
    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
      News in-depthDavid Cameron
      David Cameron brings experience and baggage as he returns to politics

      For the first time since the 1970s, a former UK prime minister is returning to cabinet

    • Monday, 13 November, 2023
      FT live news
      UK cabinet reshuffle as it happened: Suella Braverman sacked, David Cameron appointed foreign secretary
    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      Money laundering
      UK is a ‘leading enabler’ of central Asian kleptocracies, say MPs

      Failure to prosecute money laundering crimes ‘facilitates’ corrupt regimes

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    • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      UK sanctions oil trader Paramount and others over Russia ties

      Emirates-based businesses among 29 entities subject to measures aiming to stem funding for Ukraine war

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    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
      UK defence industry
      UK signs £4bn air defence deal with Poland

      European missile maker MBDA signs its largest export contract ever

      MBDA will export more than 1,000 CAMM-ERs as well as 100 launchers
    • Thursday, 19 October, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      US, UK and Germany tell citizens to leave Lebanon amid fears of wider conflict

      Israel’s defence minister tells troops they will be ‘inside’ Gaza

      Trucks carrying humanitarian aid for Palestinians wait for the reopening of the Rafah crossing to enter Gaza
    • Thursday, 19 October, 2023
      UK anti-extremism tsar calls for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards to be listed as terrorists

      Robin Simcox says proscribing military group would be ‘in national interest’

      Members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps  on Azadi Square in Tehran for a rally to mark the 44th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution
    • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Rishi Sunak to visit Israel with call to avoid escalation of crisis

      UK prime minister to hold two days of meetings with Netanyahu and other leaders in Middle East

      Rishi Sunak in House of Commons
    • Sunday, 15 October, 2023
      UK politics
      Sunak faces by-elections test as MPs return to Westminster

      Conflict in Gaza set to dominate crucial week in UK politics as parliamentary recess ends following party conference season

      Profiles of two politicians with, from top, an Israeli soldier, a computer-generated image of an HS2 train, and a close-up of a £10 note
    • Friday, 13 October, 2023
      UK politics
      Scotland’s first minister criticises Israeli blockade of Gaza

      Comments came after UK defence secretary backed Israel’s call for Palestinians to leave northern Gaza

      Humza Yousaf
    • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      UK to deploy naval task group to eastern Mediterranean

      Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessels, Royal Marines and surveillance aircraft to be sent as ‘contingency measure’

      RFA Argus at anchor in Plymouth Sound
    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
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      Indonesia vows to sue UK over Airbus corruption probe settlement

      Jakarta unhappy it was shut out of British share of €3.6bn deal after helping Serious Fraud Office with investigation

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    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      News in-depth
      Macron rolls out red carpet for King Charles

      Monarch’s three-day trip comes as Franco-British relationship is on stronger footing after tense Brexit period

      French president Emmanuel Macron greets the then Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall in London in 2020
    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      Brexit
      Starmer heads to Paris for Macron talks to set out post-Brexit stall

      UK’s opposition leader pledges to repair relations with EU leaders but may find they have other priorities

      Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron
    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      UK politics
      Sunak admits UK needs more investment to combat China’s security challenge

      Prime minister responds to parliamentary criticism of Britain’s approach to spying by Beijing

    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      Sunak urged to conduct ‘full audit’ of UK-China relations

      Labour calls for review after parliamentary researcher is arrested on suspicion of spying

      Rishi Sunak at PMQs in the Commons on Wednesday
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