U.K. Politics and Rishi Sunak News

The governing party’s director of campaigning has taken a leave of absence after reports his wife, a Conservative candidate, was being investigated by Britain’s gambling regulator.

After more than a decade of deep budget cuts, slow growth and weak productivity, the country has struggled to overcome years of uncertainty and underinvestment.

The Group of 7 gathers major industrialized countries, but its leaders are politically weak and Ukraine and Gaza remain unsolved.

In Turkey, India and elsewhere, where some feared authoritarian leaders would consolidate power, democracy has proved surprisingly resilient.

The accusation from China came a few weeks after Britain charged three men with assisting Hong Kong’s intelligence service.

The number of Indians abroad is small relative to the country’s population. Indian political parties want their support anyway.

British voters are fed up with the Tories, and a change election seems inevitable. But Labour does not seem poised to capitalize on the moment.

Tens of thousands of Hong Kongers have resettled in the U.K. since 2021, among them prominent pro-democracy activists. China has not forgotten them.

The opposition Labour Party has been ahead in most polls by double digits in recent months.

Matthew Trickett, one of three men accused of gathering information for the special administrative region of China, died in a park outside London, the police said.