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Charles Randell (pictured), former chair of the Financial Conduct Authority

Alistair Darling (pictured) during a speech at the Investment Week Funds To Watch event in November 2022.

Alistair Darling, the distinguished figure in the Labour Party, confirmed his demise at the age of 70. His brief hospital stay concluded with his passing, leaving a notable legacy in British politics. A household name since 2007, when then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown entrusted him with the Treasury, Darling steered the department through the complexities of the global banking crisis.

LONDON — The U.K.'s main opposition Labour Party last week set out the economic platform it hopes will propel it to power at next year's general election, and the transatlantic parallels were clear.

U.K. Labour Party leader Keir Starmer is delivering what amounts to a public job interview for the post of prime minister

Labour Party gather in Liverpool on Sunday for their annual conference with an unfamiliar feeling: optimism. The party has been out of power for 13 years, and in the last national election in 2019, voters handed Labour its worst drubbing since 1935. But with an election due next year, polls put Labour as much as 20 points ahead of the governing Conservative Party, and Labour scored a morale-boosting special election victory in Scotland last week.

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₹1,000) fine for those who miss medical appointments, a proposal initially announced during his summer 2022 campaign. However, the political feasibility of such an action remains uncertain.

Around two-thirds of City professionals would back Keir Starmer as the UK’s next prime minister | Credit: Keir Starmer, Twitter

Rishi Sunak branded Keir Starmer “Captain Hindsight.” But the meme-ready moniker gives away more than a little about the UK prime minister’s plan to save his job: Don’t look back. Barrel ahead.

Gillian Keegan, the UK's Education Secretary, found herself in the spotlight after being inadvertently recorded expressing frustration over the handling of the school building crisis. Following an interview with ITV, Keegan was caught on a live microphone questioning the lack of acknowledgment for her department's efforts in addressing the ongoing school concrete crisis. In an unguarded moment, she candidly remarked, «Does anyone ever say you've done a good job because everyone else has sat on their a** and done nothing?» She followed this with a rueful, «Any sign of that, no?» A source from Downing Street promptly condemned Keegan's comments, describing them as «completely wrong», as reported by BBC.

In a major reshuffle, the UK’s Opposition Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer on Monday demoted Indian-origin shadow ministers Lisa Nandy and Preet Kaur Gill among others. Nandy, the member of Parliament for Wigan and daughter of Dipak Nandy – a Kolkata-born academic well-known for his work in the field of race relations in Britain, was removed as a shadow secretary of state and handed an international development ministerial post, which was previously held by Gill. Gill is the first British Sikh female member of Parliament in the House of Commons.

UK opposition leader Keir Starmer likes to put his Labour Party front and center in his social media messaging. For Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, it's all about himself. The British premier is more than 25 times likelier to use the word «I» than name his own Conservative Party in posts on the social media site X, formerly Twitter, according to research by Bloomberg.

London flirt with the Labour Party, Rishi Sunak is rolling the dice that a shift to the right could keep his Conservatives in power. Read More: Tories Urge New Sunak Strategy, Cabinet After Election Losses When the British prime minister took office after the turmoil of Liz Truss’s seven-week tenure in 10 Downing Street, he assured voters and investors he was the responsible choice to manage the country. His pitch based on political and economic sobriety had a calming impact on financial markets. It has not translated into electoral support. The Tories barely clung on to Boris Johnson’s former parliamentary seat in northwest London in a special election this month and watched huge majorities vanish in two other constituencies. That bolstered forecasts that the party is heading for a landslide defeat in a general election expected next year. So Sunak is going on the offensive. According to ministers and Tory strategists interviewed by Bloomberg, the premier’s plan is to lean into controversial cultural issues that play on some voters’ emotions and create dividing lines with Labour and the surging party’s leader, Keir Starmer.

Developers working on artificial intelligence should be licensed and regulated similarly to the pharmaceutical, medical, or nuclear industries, according to a representative for Britain’s opposing political party.

Private equity bosses have met with the Labour leader and the shadow chancellor as part of the opposition party’s efforts to woo investment giants in the UK.

Britain's main opposition Labour Party has unveiled its new plan to re-start the country's economy, and bring about major changes in how the country is ruled.  

UK opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer has been cleared of breaking COVID lockdown rules. 

Durham Police are conducting an investigation into a Labour Party gathering that was held amid COVID-19 restrictions, police confirmed to Euronews.

British MPs have decided to open an investigation targeting Boris Johnson over the so-called "partygate" scandal, to find out whether he knowingly misled Parliament about illegal social events held on government property during coronavirus lockdowns.

Chelsea football club owner Roman Abramovich is the latest Russian oligarch to be added to the UK's sanctions list following the invasion of Ukraine.