State of the Union: On Wednesday, the UK prime minister announced a general election will take place on July 4, months sooner than expected.

An abortive premiership, then an abortive comeback, now a conventional financier’s turn at the helm: British politics is technicolor and tragicomic.

A reflection on politics with special reference to the throwing of parties in the upper rooms of Downing Street.

The pandemic was Boris's biggest test. He failed.

Britain’s “dispensable” prime minister leaves Downing Street giving off that most British feeling: that life might not be better after the empire.

Ever on the edge of ruin, Britain’s controversial prime minister survived a no-confidence last week.