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Gillian Anderson jokes about Robert Peston mixing her up with defeated Tory
PA Media: UK News via Yahoo News· 4 days agoPeston mistakenly saying that she lost her seat at the general election live on ITV. The 55-year-old...
How powerful is a supermajority in the House of Commons?
PA Media: UK News via Yahoo News· 6 days agoAfter a moderate majority of 43 in 1979, Margaret Thatcher’s next election wins delivered large...
Who is the longest and shortest-ruling UK prime minister?
Evening Standard via Yahoo News· 5 days ago...162 days Edward Heath: 1970-74 – 3 years and 259 days Harold Wilson: 1974-76 – 2 years and 247...
Sir Keir becomes third Prime Minister of King’s reign
PA Media: UK News via Yahoo News· 4 days agoBuckingham Palace said the Labour leader ‘kissed hands’ with the King on his appointment as Prime...
Rachel Reeves: Britain's first woman finance chief
AFP News via Yahoo News· 4 days agoRachel Reeves, Britain's first woman finance minister, is a former child chess champion and Bank of England economist who has pledged to grow the...
UK election results: 6 key takeaways you need to know
Euronews via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThat follows multiple losses in traditional heartlands such as the shires around London. Finchley, ...
Historian and TikTok star Alice Loxton shares the best rail routes to explore Britain’s past
Euronews via Yahoo News· 2 days agoIt hosted prestigious receptions and welcomed the likes of Sir Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela,...
What the politicians' favourite restaurants say about them
Evening Standard via Yahoo News· 7 days agoPoliticians know this, and restaurants are easily politicised. They always have been. That Churchill...
Sunak defeat means UK will have eight living ex-prime ministers
PA Media: UK News via Yahoo News· 5 days agoDuring Mr Brown’s premiership from 2007 to 2010, only three of his predecessors were still alive:...
Highs and lows of 14 years of Conservative rule
PA Media: UK News via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThe result was a landslide, with an 80-seat majority for the Conservatives – the party’s biggest win since the days of Margaret Thatcher – as a series of...