UK government poised to overhaul its asylum system as a political storm brews over migration

The British government plans to tighten its asylum system, following Denmark's model, to reduce immigration and address the ...

UK asylum reforms spark backlash within Labour Party, support from rivals

The new reforms, modeled after Denmark, would revoke the U.K.’s legal duty to provide support for asylum seekers, allowing ...

UK asylum system: Key numbers, trends and definitions

Some 111,084 people applied for asylum in the UK in the year to June 2025, the highest number for any 12-month period since ...
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‘We will remove people we have not removed before, including families’ – UK in radical rewrite of asylum rights

UK home secretary Shabana Mahmood has said her country was targeted by people “asylum-shopping” around Europe as she faced the prospect of a backbench revolt against plans to toughen up Britain’s ...

Small changes in turnout could substantially alter election results in the UK in the future, study warns

Small changes in turnout could substantially alter election results in the future because the U.K. now has a multiparty ...

Why the UK should look beyond growth to a ‘new economics’ that works for all

Crucially, this is not just academic debate. The UK has already experimented with elements of new economics, for example, ...

UK PM Starmer's authority shaken as rift with Labour lawmakers deepens

On the eve of a visit to London by U.S. President Donald Trump, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer abruptly summoned Labour lawmakers to a meeting to try to reassert his authority over his ...
The Economist

In British politics, it will be the insurgents’ year

Local elections in May will serve as an opinion poll on Sir Keir Starmer’s government. And Reform UK may become the new hegemonic party of the British right ...