Today
UK inflation back to 2 per cent target for first time since 2021
While the fall in headline inflation in May will be welcomed by both Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the BoE, it is likely to have come too late.
- David Milliken and Suban Abdulla
Yesterday
- Opinion
- World elections
Le Pen or Melenchon? France faces a bleak choice
Razor-edge polls and tenuous alliances of political convenience point to a fragmented French electorate, volatile politics and uncertain economics.
- Lionel Laurent
ECB, Le Pen call for calm on turmoil-hit French markets
France’s stock and bond ructions eased after the European Central Bank counselled calm, and Marine Le Pen sought to reassure spooked investors.
- Updated
- Hans van Leeuwen
Farage vows ‘radical’ tax cuts to fix ‘Broken Britain’
The perennial populist outsider, who hopes to reshape the Conservative Party, has combined traditionalist social policies with a radical economic agenda.
- Updated
- Hans van Leeuwen
This Month
EU capitals to back new term for Ursula von der Leyen
The former German defence minister who was an unheralded choice for the post in 2019, received a boost last week from the bloc’s three most powerful members.
- Henry Foy
- Opinion
- Workplace
Why your accent might be holding you back at work
Wall Street banks and big law firms are among employers addressing this potential discrimination.
- Pilita Clark
- Updated
- Russia-Ukraine war
Ukraine peace summit seeks consensus on Russia rebuke
China’s absence from the meeting and the attendance of lower-level diplomats from the BRICS states cast a shadow over efforts to win over the Global South.
- Updated
- Thomas Escritt and Sabine Siebold
Serbia to give green light to Rio Tinto lithium mine
“New guarantees” from the Anglo-Australian miner and EU could transform the continent’s electric vehicle industry.
- Marton Dunai, Alec Russell, Harry Dempsey and Alice Hancock
All eyes on Kate in first appearance since cancer diagnosis
The Princess of Wales has appeared in public for the first time this year, as she begins her return to public life with an all-family outing at Trooping the Colour.
- Updated
- Hannah Furness
Putin demands land concessions from Ukraine
The Russian president said Ukraine must recognise four regions and Crimea as Russian territory and Kyiv’s neutral status needs to be cemented.
- Bloomberg News
Nigel Farage’s party overtakes Tories in UK poll blow
Right-wing Reform UK provides a symbolic ‘crossover moment’ in support that Conservative strategists have been fearing for months.
- Alex Wickham
Why Keir Starmer’s wife is being kept off the campaign trail
Victoria Starmer is said to be highly resistant to the idea of breaking up the family’s happy life in the leafy streets near Hampstead Heath, and has kept a remarkably low profile.
- Guy Kelly and Eleanor Mills
Biden vows weapons, aid for Ukraine ‘until they prevail’
The US president has signed a new security agreement with Volodymyr Zelensky, and the G7 plans $75 billion in aid to Ukraine in its war against Russia.
- Updated
- Matt Viser and Tyler Pager
Macron has poured on the petrol. Someone will get burnt
The President hopes to prove that votes for the right in Europe were just voters venting steam. If he’s wrong, the consequences will be felt far beyond France.
- Hans van Leeuwen
UK’s likely next PM copies Albanese election playbook
Labour leader Keir Starmer unveiled a policy manifesto containing almost no new policies, confirming just a handful of tax tweaks if his party is elected on July 4.
- Updated
- Hans van Leeuwen
- Opinion
- World elections
Starmer will be centrism’s last chance
Voters need to see normal politics working for them again. Keir Starmer not only carries the dreams of a country demanding change but the hope of all who fear what follows if he fails.
- Robert Shrimsley
- Analysis
- World elections
What Aussie business can expect from Europe’s far-right shift
Both sides of politics in Europe will back industrial policies designed to onshore or diversify supply chains – and that’s the space where Australia plays.
- Updated
- Hans van Leeuwen
Macron urges unity against surging far-right turmoil
The French president made the call after the centre-right Republicans ditched its chairman, who had called for an alliance with the hard right.
- Updated
- Hans van Leeuwen
- Opinion
- UK election
White Britons are receiving special attention but don’t tell them that
The most important ethnic group in British politics is the one nobody talks about.
- The Economist
Britain’s economy stalls in blow for Sunak
Gross domestic product was flat in April compared with the previous month, a slowdown from 0.4 per cent growth in March.
- Tom Rees and Irina Anghel
