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Well may he laugh: Reform leader Nigel Farage, whose party stands to claim the biggest block of votes at the next election.

No laughing matter: how Nigel Farage stole the lead in UK politics

It couldn’t happen in Australia, where compulsory and preferential voting protect the two-party system, but British politics is fractured – on the right and the left.

  • George Brandis

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Yvette Cooper, UK home secretary, during the Border Security Summit in London, UK, on Monday, March 31, 2025. The number of asylum seekers arriving in the UK has been increasing, and a further backlog built up when the previous government paused the processing of asylum claims while it worked on a plan — subsequently dropped by Labour — to send some to Rwanda. Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg

UK plans to end ‘failed experiment’ in immigration

Prime Minister Keir Starmer is under pressure to cut migration after the recent success of Nigel Farage’s anti-immigration Reform UK party in local elections.

  • Andrew MacAskill
Boris Johnson pecked by ostrich.

Ostrich shows Boris Johnson where he sits in pecking order

The former British PM was cruising through what appeared to be a wildlife park when an ostrich stuck its head through the window to give him a feisty peck.

  • Livia Albeck-Ripka
An ostrich pecks the former British PM through his car window, making him curse as his child giggles. Credit: Carrie Johnson via Instagram
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Boris Johnson's run-in with a feisty ostrich

An ostrich pecks the former British PM through his car window, making him curse as his child giggles. Credit: Carrie Johnson via Instagram

Former prime minister John Howard bowls a ball during a cricket game in Pakistan in 2005.

From Hawke to Dutton: Politicians and their sporting mishaps

News that a cameraman was bloodied after a misplaced punt from Peter Dutton is just the latest political sports mishap

  • Penry Buckley
2023 NSW STATE ELECTIONS  March 25, 2023 Photo Dean Sewell Liberal MP for Penrith Stuart Ayres has arrived at the party’s official after party in that seat, where Herald reporter Harriet Alexander is stationed. Ayres arrived with his wife and federal Liberal senator Marise Payne, or as he described her, “the tall redhead that’s standing beside me”. Ayres will not concede tonight. He said the NSW Electoral Commission had told him that two big pre-polling stations would not be counted tonight and therefore there will not be a result. “I don’t want to sugarcoat this,” Ayres said. “It’s a narrow path, but we need the Electoral Commission to do its work over the coming days. We’ve seen across the state that it’s a pretty ugly night but here in Penrith we are still fighting.”

Marise Payne and Stuart Ayres go their separate ways

The bedrock political couple are calling time after more than 15 years.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
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Former British prime minister Boris Johnson arrives to speak at the event in Sydney on Friday.

US Republicans have a ‘homoerotic obsession’ with Putin, says Johnson

Former British prime minister Boris Johnson told a Sydney audience he had spoken with Donald Trump since the election and believed the president-elect would have “no choice” but to support Ukraine.

  • Michael Koziol
Britain’s former prime minister Boris Johnson forgets his ID.

Boris Johnson returns to Australia for exclusive tour

The former British prime minister will spruik his new memoir in Sydney and Melbourne in December, but tickets aren’t going cheap.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
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Tsunami of financial distress a sad indictment of society

The lending rules of our banks have contributed to the mortgage crisis people now face. When interest rates were at record lows, banks were only too willing to allow borrowing. They surely would have been aware this would be unsustainable when interest rates inevitably rose.

When I met Starmer, he’d have won my ‘least likely PM’ vote. Look at him now

He’s cautious, a bit bland and with no big vision, but he’s ousted the crooked Conservatives in this chaos-weary country.

  • Kathy Lette

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