Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, with lawmaker Angus Robertson an SNP member of the UK Parliament, speak to the media outside the Palace of Westminster in London, Wednesday, April 19, 2017. British Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday called for a snap June 8 general election, seeking to strengthen her hand in European Union exit talks and tighten her grip on a fractious Conservative Party. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Back to the ballot box: UK lawmakers back June 8 election

by Jill Lawless - Associated Press April 19, 2017

British voters will be heading to polling stations for the third time since 2015, after lawmakers overwhelmingly backed Prime Minister Theresa May’s call for a snap election on June 8.

A European and British Union flags hang outside Europe House, the European Parliament's British offices, in London, Tuesday, March 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Dispatches, Politics & Society

If Scotland leaves the U.K., will Northern Ireland be next?

by David Stewart March 21, 2017

Each forecasted outcome would have been mocked only a few years ago—yet today, neither is unthinkable.

Demonstrators on Feb. 20, 2017, rally in Parliament Square against a planned state visit by U.S. President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland)

Dispatches, Politics & Society

Trump’s state visit to United Kingdom debated as hate crimes are up in London. Is Brexit to blame?

by David Stewart February 24, 2017

This is not a country at ease with itself, if it ever were. The United Kingdom continues to display more and more intolerance and anger.

Dispatches, Politics & Society

What a candid interview with Donald Trump means for US-British relations

by David Stewart January 18, 2017

Interfering with another nation’s politics having evidently become a thing, Donald Trump told his interviewer that Britain is “smart” for getting out of the European Union.