Reuters is reporting that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will resign this year, falling on his sword in hopes of salvaging power for his Labour Party. Liberal Democrats, led by Nick Clegg, had been in coalition talks with the Conservative Party – which won the most seats in last week’s election but failed to secure [...]
The Senate just went out until Monday and Washington is settling into an early start of what looks to be a quiet weekend (barring any more suspicious packages in Times Square). But on the other side of the Pond it looks like another crazy weekend as Britons sort out the results of Thursday’s elections and [...]
The polls are headed in the wrong direction for Gordon Brown, and he is losing newspaper endorsements. But he is not flagging one bit, as he showed today in a speech to Citizens UK. It is quite a performance, with a notable Barack Obama homage (at 2:45). But since this is a Gordon Brown speech, [...]
This story is dominating the UK’s election coverage. TIME’s London Bureau Chief Catherine Mayer explains: The first I heard of the gaffe that has inevitably and instantly been christened “bigotgate” was from an 85-year-old Labour party activist. “Have you heard about Gordon’s latest banana skin?” he asked, shaking his head, sadly. Gordon – Britain’s incumbent [...]
While trapped in the United Kingdom by volcanic ash, I decided to visit one of the dozen crucial swing constituencies to find out what British voters are thinking ahead of next week’s general election. Over the past decade, I’ve canvassed thousands of voters in just about every swing state: I once spent two days in [...]
I need say nothing else. From Time’s London Bureau Chief Catherine Mayer: Who won the second of the televised debates between the three men battling to be Britain’s next Prime Minister? The current Labour PM Gordon Brown? His Conservative challenger David Cameron? The Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, elevated by last week’s debate from third-party [...]
From Catherine Mayer, TIME’s London Bureau Chief: On one topic at least there was a perfect consensus when the leaders of Britain’s three largest political parties faced each other in a 90-minute televised debate this evening, ahead of elections on May 6. This was the first ever such contest, and everyone – the protagonists Prime [...]
