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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

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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
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
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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
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer holds a press conference on nationalising British Steel.

‘National security on the line’: Starmer pulls off extraordinary move to save British steel

The UK parliament was recalled for just the fifth time since WWII to vote on emergency legislation, and passed the bill in less than 24 hours.

  • Rob Harris
Elon Musk and Nigel Farage.

Elon Musk turns on Nigel Farage, calls on him to quit as Reform party leader

Musk has repeatedly posted on X about UK politics since Labour was elected in July. Now the billionaire thinks Nigel Farage should step down.

  • Rob Harris
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.

Albanian burglar who sneaked back into Britain trolls Nigel Farage

Farage has described the Albanian as “a proper wrong ’un” for defying deportation and driving a Ferrari around London.

  • Charles Hymas

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