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Emily Thornberry claimed the UK government was “going to spend millions” giving Donald Trump the “red carpet, golden carriage carpet” for his state visit in June. But she said it could all be a “giant waste of taxpayers’ money” with warnings of no US-UK trade deal unless the Irish border issue was solved. Cabinet Office […]

WASHINGTON — As Speaker Nancy Pelosi urges caution on impeachment, rank-and-file House Democrats are agonizing over the prospect of ousting President Trump, caught between their sense of historic responsibilities and political considerations in the wake of the special counsel’s damning portrait of abuses. The Democrats — including more than 50 freshmen — are mindful that

A Brexiteer MP sought a confirmation from his own government that there would be no new referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU. Cabinet Office Minister David Lidington told Tom Pursglove it would “do harm to fragile public confidence” if a commitment to carry out the result of the 2016 vote was “set aside”.

WASHINGTON — In the months before Kirstjen Nielsen was forced to resign, she tried to focus the White House on one of her highest priorities as homeland security secretary: preparing for new and different Russian forms of interference in the 2020 election. President Trump’s chief of staff told her not to bring it up in

A retired top naval chief has criticised using gender neutral terms for ships as “political correctness gone made”. It comes after the Scottish Maritime Museum stopped calling ships and boats “she” when those words on information signs were scratched out by vandals. Admiral Lord West told the Today programme: “It is an insult to a

“The one race, of all political races, where money is less important is president,” Mr. Rendell said, adding of Mr. Biden, “If he wins or loses it will not be because he raised — or didn’t — enough.” Mr. Biden re-established his political action committee, the American Possibilities PAC, in mid-2017 and raised about $2.6

Ed Miliband has called on the energy minister to persuade Theresa May to declare a “climate emergency” in the UK. The former Labour leader asked Claire Perry about the Extinction Rebellion protests in London over the last week, saying it was “no wonder” activists were taking such a stand given the seriousness of the threat.

WASHINGTON — Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, on Tuesday dismissed Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential campaign as a “couple of Facebook ads” and said the investigation of it was far more damaging to the country than the intrusion itself. “You look at what Russia did — you know, buying some Facebook

The energy secretary says the UK has the “most detailed proposals” to hit carbon budgets, and backed legislation as the best way to tackle climate change. Claire Perry was responding to Ed Miliband’s call for a “climate emergency”, saying she was did not know what “that would entail”. The former Labour leader was asking her

Michael Bossetta, a fellow at the Center for European Politics at the University of Copenhagen, who specializes in new forms of political participation through social media, noticed through his research of Facebook ads that Mr. Buttigieg, Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey and Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington were among the candidates aggressively targeting people