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If any part of Great Britain can be considered the natural habitat of the Reform UK party, it is the Clacton constituency in eastern England. No wonder Nigel Farage chose this constituency to make his eighth attempt to get into the House of Commons on July 4. And it looks like he will succeed this time.more

The Kremlin can be contained and even defeated, but as the West we have forgotten this,' Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski stressed yesterday in a lecture given at the Ditchley Park estate near Oxford, where the Ditchley Foundation is based.more

Remaining in third place in the polls ahead of Thursday's UK House of Commons elections, the right-wing populist Reform UK party yesterday withdrew support for its three parliamentary candidates over their racist statements.more

The elections to the House of Commons will bring a fundamental change in British internal politics, but their impact on Polish-British relations and the interests that Poland has in relation to London will most likely be quite limited, says Dr. Przemysław Biskup, an expert at the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM).more

A week before the elections to the British House of Commons, the opposition Labor Party maintains an advantage of 20 percentage points. over the ruling Conservative Party, although support for both has been falling in recent days - according to the average of polls presented by Sky News yesterday evening.more

After Joe Biden's performance in yesterday's presidential debate, there has been "aggressive panic" in the Democratic camp, and party activists are considering whether to ask the president to withdraw from the election race, CNN and other media reported. These reports are also confirmed by a source within the party of the Polish Press Agency.more

The leaders of the 27 EU countries decided to divide the highest EU positions. Ursula von der Leyen will remain President of the European Commission. Portuguese Antonio Costa will be head of the European Council; Estonian Kaja Kallas - head of EU diplomacy.more

London's Metropolitan Police announced yesterday that it had taken over an investigation into whether some politicians were betting with bookmakers on the date of the House of Commons elections with confidential information about them.more

A Labour member involved in the party’s general election campaign has been arrested in connection with the Westminster honeytrap plot, the Guardian has learned. The Metropolitan police confirmed they had detained a man, believed to be in his 20s, on Wednesday morning at an address in Islington, north London. He is being held on suspicion of harassment and offences under the Online Safety Act.more

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Opposition Leader Keir Starmer faced off last night in the last televised debate before the House of Commons elections set for next Thursday. It was sharper than the previous one, although neither of them said anything they had not said before.more

The crisis of poverty that has taken root in the UK over the past 14 years has been laid bare in two reports that reveal the devastating effects that low wages and price increases have had on the lives of 900,000 children.more

Four men have been arrested on suspicion of trespassing on property surrounding the private home of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in North Yorkshire, police said last night.more

The North Atlantic Council today decided to elect Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte as the next Secretary General of NATO. Rutte will replace Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg.more

Highly controversial statements by Nigel Farage, the leader of the right-wing populist Reform UK party, about provoking Russia have resulted in a visible decline in support for this group, according to a survey by JL Partners published yesterday.more

The candidate of the center-left opposition Democratic Party, Sara Funaro, won the local elections in this city that ended on Monday. She defeated the center-right candidate, former director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt. This is a historic achievement to serve as mayor of this historic city.more

Britons are the most likely of seven European nations to say their country is in a sorry state, but the French are the most likely to think things will get worse over the next 12 months, according to a poll weeks before high-stakes elections in both countries.more

No matter how heavy a defeat the Conservative Party suffers in the House of Commons elections, it should not yet be struck off as a political force, and being replaced by Reform UK will not be as easy as Nigel Farage seems to think, according to experts at the think tank UK in a Changing Europe.more

A politician from the Christian Democrat CSU party Alexander Dobrindt has proposed that non-working Ukrainian refugees should be sent back from Germany to "safe areas in western Ukraine". Dobrindt's populist initiative further poisons the debate on migration and asylum, comments the RND website.more

Prime Minister Donald Tusk is the best-rated and most recognizable figure in the government. The next places are: Radosław Sikorski and Adam Bodnar - according to the latest IBRiS study conducted for "Rzeczpospolita".more

Above all, the Conservative Party is trying to draw clear dividing lines between it and the opposition, while Labour is trying to do nothing to make it harder for it to win, say experts at Queen Mary University of London about the election programmes of Britain's two main parties.more

A wave of criticism fell yesterday on Nigel Farage, leader of the right-wing populist Reform UK party, following his statements on Friday about Russia and Vladimir Putin. They were condemned by UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and opposition leader Keir Starmer, among others. The leader of Britain's right-wing populist Reform UK party today asserted that he is not an apologist for Putin.more

Nigel Farage, leader of the British right-wing populist Reform UK party, said yesterday that the war in Ukraine is "of course" Vladimir Putin's fault, but also that the West provoked Russia by expanding NATO and the European Union.more

A suspiciously large number of bets that the House of Commons elections would be held on July 4, placed a day before the announcement of that date, became another problem for British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Two candidates for MPs from his Conservative Party have already been investigated in this case.more

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stated yesterday that he believes the war in Ukraine started because Russian warnings about Ukraine's possible entry into NATO were ignored. The former president ruled out Ukraine joining the Alliance and assessed that it would be "madness".more

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was yesterday awarded the annual prize by one of the foremost think tanks on international affairs, London's Chatham House.more