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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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Weekly boat arrivals are putting pressure on the British government.

The wealthy have been shielded from Britain’s big problem – until now

As the steady stream of boats crossing the Channel continues, more refugee hotels are set up – and wealthier neighbourhoods like Canary Wharf take notice.

  • David Crowe
A man holds an English flag during the Epping protest.

Protests spread across UK as police admit drawing rival groups together

Anti-migrant demonstrators and refugee-advocate rivals are coming together outside asylum hotels as an explosive dispute about where to house thousands of people crossing the English Channel gathers pace.

  • David Crowe
A dog sits outside a polling station in London during the last UK election. Just over 48 million people were eligible to cast a ballot, while there are about 1.6 million 16 and 17-year-olds.

Could Australia follow UK’s ‘shock’ move to lower voting age to 16?

The UK’s proposed changes are designed to boost participation and trust in the electoral system, but opinion is split over whether under 18s should – or would – cast ballots.

  • Brittany Busch
The Israeli restaurant in Hardware Lane was targeted on July 4.

Tony, Peta and the gang gather for solidarity supper at Israeli restaurant

A crack squad of political operatives were spotted at Miznon restaurant, where it appears bookings are booming.

  • Stephen Brook, Kishor Napier-Raman and Gemma Grant
Effigies of migrants in a boat burn atop the bonfire at Moygashel, Northern Ireland.

‘Fifty people a week’: Fury on both sides of English Channel over migration deal

A deal to stem the flow of asylum seekers from Europe to Britain has been dismissed as too weak, amid forecasts that up to 40,000 people could arrive in the UK this year.

  • David Crowe
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Senator Matt Canavan addressing a rally against renewable energy last year.

How Tony Blair helped out Matt Canavan in his war on net zero

The unlikely comments of an elder statesman of the climate movement – and warfare inside the Nationals – show how fragile the politics of net zero are.

  • Nick O'Malley
Keir Starmer

Starmer’s sharp pivot on borders isn’t just about policy – it’s about political survival

Will the British PM’s immigration gambit work, or is he simply playing catch-up to the far-right’s anti-immigration agenda?

  • Rob Harris
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
Nigel Farage and Sarah Pochin of the Reform Party celebrate as the latter is declared the winner of the Runcorn and Helsby byelection.

‘We’ve had Labour for lunch’: Farage’s Reform UK party delivers political earthquake

Nigel Farage is no longer the clown lobbing bricks from outside the circus tent. He’s now got a foot inside — and he’s brought the cannon.

  • Rob Harris

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