Ruling party picks Mikheil Kavelashvili for mostly ceremonial post in electoral college vote he is likely to winThe governing party in Georgia has picked a former Manchester City footballer as its candidate for president after a disputed victory in las…
Former striker Mikheil Kavelashvili is an outspoken critic of the West.
Ex-Ukip councillor Colette Fairbanks loses claim that she was bullied in charity job because of political stanceSupporting Brexit is not a belief that is protected from workplace discrimination, an employment tribunal has ruled, as a former Ukip counci…
Howard Bernstein transformed a city on its knees
Visiting doctors share eyewitness accounts after a U.N. inquiry accused Israel of war crimes by targeting Gaza’s health system.
Mayors argue new train line is needed after northern leg of HS2 was axed on cost grounds
The issue failed to stop Donald Trump, who on Tuesday overcame a large gender gap โ and Democratsโ relentless focus on womenโs reproductive health โ to win back the White House.
Ruben Amorim says he wanted to take the Manchester United job at the end of the season but was told by the Premier League club that it was “now or never”.
Ruben Amorim says he wanted to take the Manchester United job at the end of the season but was told by the Premier League club that it was “now or never”.
Manchester United appoint Sporting coach Ruben Amorim as their new head coach on a deal until June 2026.
A British tea room in the swing state of Georgia plays host to some unlikely political views.
A study will assess changes in employment status and sick days when people take the drug.
Ignore warnings of the Rock following the Chagos Islands โ new border checks are more of a threat to livelihoods in the territory and beyondA few hours after the British government announced that it was giving up control of the Chagos Islands and handi…
Keir Starmer travels to Brussels with the prospect of a new youth mobility scheme high on the agenda.
POLITICO curates a lineup of the top players influencing the Conservativesโ Brexit and trade policies.
We break down the 20 figures inside and outside government shaping Labourโs trade policy.
Inter Milan coach Simone Inzaghi praised his team’s “giant performance” after holding Manchester City to a 0-0 draw in their Champions League opener. The expanded tournament format, designed to pit Europeโs top clubs against each other more frequently…
New 80km line between Midlands and Manchester could be built faster and cheaper than axed HS2 leg, says research
New Hampshire, Delaware and Rhode Island are all holding primary contests on Tuesday.
Michael McGrath, Ireland’s pick for the European Commission, refuses to play politics. Could it be his undoing?
Mendis, who stayed in Manchester church for two years in 1980s to fight deportation, has died aged 68 in GermanyRefugees and human rights activists are making their way to Bremen in north-west Germany for the funeral of a man who fought for freedom and…
New U.K. PM found old U.K. PM’s portrait โunsettlingโ and asked for it to be taken down.
Oasis are getting back together. Good news for music fans, bad news for those hoping the Gallagher brothers might turn their hand to politics.
A diminishing number of grassroots U.K. musicians are performing at the continentโs festivals.
Once seen as a template for the worldโs industrial future, the cityโs building boom now makes it a test for urban living
Thousands of anti-racism demonstrators rallied across the UK on Saturday to protest recent rioting blamed on the far-right in the wake of the Southport knife attack that killed three children. Crowds massed in London, Glasgow in Scotland, Belfast in N…
What has happened, who is behind the violence and how the UK government has responded.
Far right rioters have targeted mosques and other buildings following the killing of three young girls in Southport last Monday.
Demonstrators threw chairs, flares and bricks at officers in the northwestern English city of Liverpool while scuffles between police and protesters broke out in nearby Manchester. Police said ‘a number of officers have been injured as they deal with s…
Patients in Manchester will take part in first study using โwonder materialโ that was discovered in the city
In todayโs newsletter: As Paris gears up for the Games, the excitement is palpable, but concern about performance-enhancing drugs threatens the reputation of one of its sportsโข Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning.The Olympi…
Dani says his ยฃ26,000 salary is not high enough to sponsor his wife so she can join him in BritainA police officer working in Manchester says he has been forced to quit his job after Rishi Sunak raised the salary threshold to sponsor his Italian wife t…
Rishi Sunak played a bad hand appallingly โ and paid a terrible price.
Independent MPs set to be thorn in PM Keir Starmer’s side over the Middle East.
Readers respond to the Reform UK leaderโs views on the Russian president, Natoโs actions and the Ukraine warRegarding Simon Jenkinsโ article (Farageโs Ukraine comments were hardly offensive โ other party leaders could use a history lesson, 24 June), I …
Britain’s prime minister is destined to failure. Does he even know why?
Europe’s nationalists have often struggled to field a clean sheet of respectable candidates.
Mar Gunnarsson, swimmer and Manchester student who is due to compete at the Paris Games, says his career is at riskA Paralympic swimmer due to compete in this summerโs Games has said his career is at risk after a post-Brexit policy change barred him fr…
Flights at the UK’s third-busiest airport were being delayed or cancelled Sunday after a major power cut, the airport operator said.
The dealmaker flitted between Whitehall corridors and Middle Eastern palaces in a quest to rejuvenate his hometown
Film-maker Tomรกลก Kratochvรญl follows the story of Czech-Mancunian trucker turned activist ล tefan PongoCentring on an ordinary man with extraordinary determination, Tomรกลก Kratochvรญlโs documentary shows how one simple video can ignite a revolutionary move…
Keir Starmer is promising change from 14 years of Tory government. In fiscal terms, it’s not so much โ for now.
Standards of living lag behind G7 countries US, France and Germany, as 50th summit approachesA failure to invest in the UKโs main regional cities has held back economic growth and meant standards of living lag behind the US, France and Germany, accordi…
Greater Manchester Police ‘concluded that no further police action will be taken’ against the Labour deputy leader.
US rapper detained in Amsterdam on suspicion of โpossessing soft drugsโ before being fined by Dutch policeNicki Minaj has offered her โdeepest and most sincere apologiesโ after her Manchester concert was cancelled at the last minute after she was arres…
Rapper detained at Schiphol on suspicion of โpossessing soft drugsโ hours before show in ManchesterNicki Minaj has been arrested at an airport in the Netherlands hours before she was due to perform at Co-op Live in Manchester on Saturday and appeared t…
The author celebrates the spirit, cheer and energy that power her place of birth
Analysis reveals voters switching from the Tories in pro-Brexit seats could make a Starmer election victory easier to achieveVoters are switching from the Tories to Labour in the most pro-leave parts of the country in such numbers that Keir Starmer may…
British prime minister hosts vice-chancellors in Downing Street to discuss protecting Jewish students.
Series of failed attempts at opening ยฃ365mn venue amid cancellations, confusion, safety concerns and resignations
To Irish eyes, post-Brexit Britain’s toughening message to asylum seekers looks like “To Rwanda โ or to Ireland.”
As voters head to the polls, flailing Conservatives are trying to distance themselves from the party’s toxic brand.
From declaration times to the top TV pundits, POLITICO has the true nerds covered in the crucial local fights.
The cityโs startling turnaround has triggered a debate about whether ordinary residents are benefiting, or itโs become a playground for property developers and affluent newcomers.
โVenue-related technical issueโ blamed for latest setback to hit ยฃ350mn project backed by Oak View Group
Launch of UKโs largest indoor arena put back by build delays and safety concerns
The Labour second-in-command was pressed by deputy PM Oliver Dowden on the row about her tax affairs.
US-backed Co-op Live takes โdifficult decisionโ to reschedule comedianโs shows
More than 250 survivors of the 2017 Manchester Arena attack have filed a lawsuit against Britain’s domestic intelligence services, their lawyers said in a statement Sunday.ย ย
Questions over the deputy leader’s tax affairs continue to dog Labour.
Matches will go ahead as planned, organizers said.
Tory MP William Wragg โ who will retain the Conservative whip โ admitted leaking colleagues’ numbers to a person with ‘compromising things’ on him.
William Wragg says he was manipulated into giving information on colleagues to a man he encountered on the Grindr dating app.
Everything you need to know about the phishing attack on MPs and staff in the U.K. parliament.
At least six men working in the UK Parliament received unsolicited messages โ and the exchanges quickly turned sexual.
Home Secretary James Cleverly orders investigation after border officials are said to have spoken in ‘aggressive terms’ to Israeli nationals.
Britain’s top diplomat is a frequent target of the Conservative Party’s China hawks.
Vaughan Gething’s election will be a key test of relations with Westminster โ and unity in his own ranks.
Environmentally minded Tories fear losing influence after the general election.
Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho is charged with steering the U.K. to net zero โ and may yet land a big promotion from her ally the prime minister.
Galloway was kicked out of Tony Blair’s Labour in the 2000s โ but he’s heading back to the UK parliament on a pro-Palestinian ticket.
Labour says sorry as veteran left-winger who ran a stridently pro-Palestine campaign grabs seat.
Conservatives continue to look to the man who led the UK out of the EU as their poll ratings tank.
Borgerโs account of how pleas in the Manchester Guardian by Viennese parents trying to rescue their children โ one of them his father โ from the Holocaust is gripping and powerfulWhen he was growing up, recalls Julian Borger, it felt as if his family โ…
Ron DeSantis is finally having an impact on the presidential primary.
Jose Mourinho is sacked as Roma manager and replaced by the club’s former captain Daniele de Rossi.
The northern English city is being transformed by new residential skyscrapers that dwarf its 19th-century heritage
The UK has grand plans for Cambridge. But the city has other ideas.
Kate Vokes, 54, and Archie Vokes, 22, from Manchester, killed while skiing off-piste near Mont BlancThe family of a mother and son who died in an avalanche in the French Alps have said they are โbeyond heartbrokenโ by the tragedy.Kate Vokes, 54, and Ar…
POLITICO London Playbook rounds up the festive traditions of Westminster’s power players โ in their own words.
British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe has agreed a deal to buy a 25 percent stake in Manchester United for about $1.3 billion, vowing to return the Premier League club to the “top of world football”.
Owners of gite where formerly missing British boy spent time say he enjoyed sharing in their family lifeThe owners of a remote French gite where teenager Alex Batty stayed on and off for two years have said he was eager to go to school and โget back to…
Alex Batty, who was missing for six years, has returned to the UK, Greater Manchester Police says.
Teenager whose disappearance, aged 11, sparked an international police hunt is due to fly home after being found in FranceMore than 2,200 days after being abducted while on holiday in Spain, Alex Batty was expected to return home on Saturday night to r…
Formal identification confirms boy who turned up near Toulouse is Alex Batty, who had been missing since 2017Formal identification has confirmed that a teenager who turned up alone in France this week is Alex Batty, a British boy who went missing six y…
Mayor Andy Burnham says investment in public transport will reduce pollution more quickly than imposing costs on drivers
Manchester United fall to defeat by Bayern Munich at Old Trafford to exit the Champions League at the group stage.
The high-end fashion brand came to a city backstreet for a rainswept runway show
“We’d be fucked if there was an election tomorrow,” party officials say, as talks with civil service put on ice.
As Global Investment Summit tries to sell brand Britain, MPs and Telegraph journalists fear sale of conservative standard-bearer to UAE-backed fund.
Investigation shows how two of the most powerful men in football controlled the careers of 21 young playersThe entire population of Tillmitsch, in the mountainous Austrian wine-growing region of Styria, could fit into Manchester City FCโs 53,400-seater…
Swiss industry-standard training in Greater Manchester aims to help plug a gap of thousands of workers and improve customer service
POLITICO combs through Rishi Sunakโs legislative agenda โ as read out by King Charles III โ so you donโt have to.
The Gaza-Israel war has upended left-wing politics far beyond the Middle East. With elections looming, the price could be high.
Labour leader must navigate fault line which has plagued his party over Israel and Palestine.
UK opposition leader warns top team over demands for a cease-fire, saying he takes collective responsibility ‘extremely seriously.’
It is an anomaly of the most successful period in Manchester City’s European competition history that their main striker has had a goal drought during it.
England World Cup winner and Manchester United great Bobby Charlton, described by the club as a “giant of the game”, has died at the age of 86, it was announced on Saturday.
The former UKIP leader has not been a Tory member since the 1990s.
As Israel ramps up its military reaction โ in turn triggering a humanitarian crisis in Gaza โ antisemitism is likely to spike, just as it always does when conflict in the region escalates.
