Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is polling behind Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in the FT’s aggregation of UK voting intention surveys. Despite having only a handful of MPs in the 650-strong ...

The next UK general election must be held by 15 August 2029. However, prime minister Sir Keir Starmer can opt to call an election at any point before this. UK general elections need to be held every ...

The Manchester suburbs of Gorton and Denton have been thrust to the centre of the fight for Britain’s political future.

The government has also not taken steps to restore the independence of the Electoral Commission itself, a body which plays a ...

Britain’s populist, anti-immigration party Reform UK has beaten Labour by a tiny margin in a by-election, dealing the government a mid-term setback and ruffling the country’s historically resilient ...

Nigel Farage’s populist Reform UK would be the biggest party in parliament if the country held a general election today, according to a nationwide projection, underlining the political danger to Prime ...

LONDON, July 17 (Reuters) - Britain moved on Thursday to lower the voting age by two years to 16 in all UK elections, a major overhaul of the country's democratic system that immediately split opinion ...

A two-day hearing will be held next month to determine whether the government can delay dozens of local council elections by ...

Voters in Scotland and Wales will elect representatives to their national parliaments, while a number of local council and mayoral polls will take place in England. In Northern Ireland, local council ...

Senior members of the British Conservative Party, including a former MP who was once a close aide to former prime minister Rishi Sunak, are due in court over claims they placed bets on the timing of ...

The British government said on Thursday it planned to give 16 and 17-year-olds the right to vote in all UK elections in a major overhaul of the country’s democratic system. The government said the ...