Two very different election outcomes last weekend have produced very similar challenges that the governments will struggle to deal with.
Political gurus worldwide often look to the US to live out a West Wing-style fantasy,but UK watchers say it is Australia that really sets the tone in Westminster.
Britain’s new prime minister faces perhaps the most monumental challenges of any incoming UK leader since Clement Attlee’s Labour Party won in a landslide in 1945.
Everything went downhill for the UK Conservatives after the political assassination of Boris Johnson two years ago. It was a spectacular act of political self-harm.
That belief is that Jesus is Lord of all,above any government or political party,should affect how Christians treat political opponents.
From bungee jumping to Count Binface,in the weeks before Labour’s landslide win,the British election generated no shortage of remarkable scenes.
UK Labour lost five seats to pro-Palestinian independent candidates during the course of the night,all in areas with significant Muslim populations.
Rishi Sunak has stood down as leader of the Conservatives after Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party swept to power,all but wiping out the ruling Tories.
The polls have closed in the UK and Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is poised to take power,sweeping away Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives after 14 years.
He’s cautious,a bit bland and with no big vision,but he’s ousted the crooked Conservatives in this chaos-weary country.
The tumultuous Thatcher years were memorialised in song and literature,but this current generation of Tories are probably best forgotten.