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The controversial ads displayed at a Tube station in London.

Controversial Tube ads spark outrage as right to die debate divides Britain

British MPs are to debate a bill which would legalise assisted dying for some terminally ill adults. A decade after a similar bill was overwhelmingly rejected, the result appears to be on a knife’s edge.

  • Rob Harris

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Chi Leung Wai leaves Westminster Magistrates’ Court in central London, Monday May 13, 2024. Three men have appeared in a London court on charges that they helped the Hong Kong intelligence service gather information in Britain amid growing concern that hostile states are trying to interfere with democracy and economic activity in the U.K. Chi Leung (Peter) Wai, Matthew Trickett, and Chung Biu Yuen, were granted bail during a brief hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday. (Yui Mok/PA via AP)

Tensions rise between UK and China after three charged with ‘spying for Hong Kong’

China’s ambassador has been summoned by the UK Foreign Office amid rapidly deteriorating diplomatic relations between the two nations after the arrests.

  • Rob Harris
Foreign Secretary David Cameron prepares to address guests in his first keynote speech since returning to politics.

One more time, with feeling: The reinvention of David Cameron

The former British prime minister’s shock return to politics was cynically received by the public. Now he’s got less than a year to rewrite his legacy.

  • Rob Harris
Leader of the Workers Party of Britain George Galloway (right) looks on as former England cricketer Monty Panesar (centre) addresses fellow party candidates in Parliament Square.

Ashes hero Monty Panesar wants to be an MP, but he’s already got himself in a spin

The former England left-arm spinner conducted a series of awkward interviews after declaring he would stand as a candidate at the next general election.

  • Rob Harris
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David Cameron blasts Trump’s NATO stance as ‘not sensible’

The comments come after Trump bragged he once told a NATO member that he would “encourage” Russia to do as it wishes to “delinquent” allies.

  • Rob Harris
Foreign Secretary David Cameron.

China has changed since I was PM, David Cameron tells US audience

David Cameron oversaw the Golden Era in Sino-British relations, but the former prime minister sang a different tune during a debut appearance as foreign secretary in the United States.

  • Latika Bourke
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A passenger in the arrivals hall of Terminal 5 at London Heathrow Airport in London. The UK government wants to slash immigration levels.

UK to slash foreign workers, student intakes to cut record immigration

Under the plan to cut the migrant intake by 300,000 people a year, foreign health and care workers would be banned from bringing their children, spouses and partners to the UK.

  • Rob Harris
LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 15: Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak holds a press conference, following the Supreme Court’s Rwanda policy judgement, at Downing Street on November 15, 2023 in London, England. The UK’s highest court has upheld the Court of Appeal’s previous ruling that the UK Government’s plan to send some asylum-seekers to Rwanda, aimed at deterring migrants crossing the Channel from Europe in small boats, to be unlawful. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Yes, minister, UK politics is hilarious. Just don’t laugh too loud, Australia

Might Australia succumb to the perpetual turmoil of British and US politics? A year ago, I was less worried.

  • Nick Bryant
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hosts the first meeting of his new-look cabinet.

After being fired, Suella Braverman accuses Rishi Sunak of being a ‘weak, uncertain’ leader

In a resignation letter she published, Braverman said Sunak had “manifestly and repeatedly failed to deliver” on key pledges and alleged that he “never had any intention” of keeping them. 

  • Jill Lawless
Former British prime minister David Cameron has been appointed foreign secretary.

Cameron’s return to politics a surprise but not bad news for Australia

Former leader David Cameron’s appointment as UK foreign secretary after seven years in the political wilderness says one of two things about the current state of Britain’s Conservative government.

  • Rob Harris

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