JILL LAWLESS

Associated Press

London correspondent covering politics and more.

Ex-UK Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott is hailed as a working-class hero after his death at 86

Former British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has died at age 86. Prescott’s family announced his death on Thursday. They said the politician had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and died peacefully in a care home on Wednesday.

Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan adds Baillie Gifford nonfiction prize to his trophy shelf

Australian writer Richard Flanagan has won Britain’s leading nonfiction book prize, a decade after being awarded the Booker Prize for fiction.

Agricultores británicos protestan contra impuesto que podría devastar negocios familiares

Los agricultores del Reino Unido rara vez protestan como sus vecinos europeos, y aquí no ha habido protestas a gran escala como las que han paralizado ciudades en Francia y otros países europeos. Sin embargo, ahora los agricultores dicen que intensificarán sus acciones si el gobierno no los escucha.

Thousands of UK farmers descend on Parliament to protest a tax they say will ruin family farms

British farmers have descended on Parliament to protest a tax hike they say will deal a “hammer blow” to struggling family farms.

El 2024 se caracterizó por el voto castigo contra los que están en el poder

Los resultados llevaron al presidente francés Emmanuel Macron a convocar una elección parlamentaria con la esperanza de frenar un aumento de la extrema derecha en casa. El partido antiinmigración Agrupación Nacional ganó la primera ronda, pero las alianzas y el voto táctico lo relegaron al tercer lu

The ‘super year’ of elections has been super bad for incumbents as voters punish them in droves

Some have called it the “super year” for elections. And whether on the left or the right, sitting governments around the world have been drubbed this year by disgruntled voters.

Jeff Beck was one of rock’s greatest guitarists. Now his instruments are up for auction

Instruments owned by the late Jeff Beck, one of rock’s greatest guitarists, are going up for auction.

La novela ‘Orbital’ de la escritora británica Samantha Harvey gana el Premio Booker de ficción

Harvey, quien ha escrito cuatro novelas y una memoria sobre el insomnio, es la primera escritora británica desde 2020 en ganar el Booker. El premio está abierto a escritores de habla inglesa de cualquier nacionalidad y tiene la reputación de transformar las carreras de los escritores. Ganadores ante

British writer Samantha Harvey’s space-station novel ‘Orbital’ wins the Booker Prize for fiction

British writer Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize for fiction with “Orbital,” a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard the International Space Station.

Who is Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and why did he resign during an abuse scandal?

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the head of the Church of England and spiritual leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion, has resigned amid the fallout from a long-running abuse scandal.

Painter Frank Auerbach, who fled the Nazis and became a major artist, dies at 93

Frank Auerbach, who fled Nazi Germany for Britain as a child and became one of the major artists of the 20th century, has died at age 93. Auerbach’s gallery said on Tuesday the artist died at his home in London the day before.

A vaccine opponent is sentenced to 5 years for encouraging terrorism during pandemic

An opponent of vaccines who wrote social media posts urging violence against scientists, politicians and public health officials during the COVID-19 pandemic has been sentenced to five years in prison.

Líderes mundiales felicitan a Trump, pero su triunfo promete agitar el mundo de nuevo

LONDRES (AP) — El veredicto de los votantes estadounidenses fue más decisivo de lo que la mayoría de los expertos y analistas habían pronosticado.

Global leaders congratulate Trump but his victory looks set to roil the world -- again

The verdict of U.S. voters was more decisive than most pollsters and pundits had predicted. Now the world waits to see whether the election of Donald Trump as president for a second time is as destabilizing as many American allies fear.

Reino Unido: Tráfico de migrantes debe ser tratado como terrorismo

Starmer, ex fiscal jefe para Inglaterra y Gales, dijo que su gobierno estará “tomando nuestro enfoque para contrarrestar el terrorismo, que sabemos que funciona, y aplicándolo a las bandas”. Esto significa más cooperación entre las agencias de aplicación de la ley, una coordinación más estrecha con

UK leader tells Interpol meeting world must ‘wake up’ to threat from people-smugglers

Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he will double funding for Britain’s border security agency and treat people-smuggling gangs like terror networks. It’s part of efforts to stop migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats.

¿Quién es Kemi Badenoch, la primera mujer negra en liderar el Partido Conservador británico?

“No doy por sentado lo que tenemos en este país”, dijo. “Conozco a muchas personas que asumen que las cosas están bien aquí porque están bien y siempre lo estarán. No se dan cuenta de cuánto trabajo y sacrificio fue necesario para lograr eso”.

Who is Kemi Badenoch, the first Black woman to lead Britain’s Conservative Party?

The first Black woman to lead a major U.K. political party, Kemi Badenoch is an upbeat and outspoken libertarian who thinks the British state is broken and she is the one to fix it.

Partido Conservador británico elige a Kemi Badenoch como su nueva líder tras derrota electoral

Badenoch reemplaza al ex primer ministro Rishi Sunak, quien en julio llevó a los conservadores a su peor resultado electoral desde 1832. Los conservadores perdieron más de 200 escaños, reduciendo su total a 121.

UK Conservatives pick Kemi Badenoch as new leader, first Black woman to head a big British party

Britain’s Conservative Party has elected Kemi Badenoch as its new leader as it tries to rebound from a crushing election defeat that ended its 14 years in power.

Voting closes in contest to lead UK Conservative Party as it seeks to rebound from defeat

Voting has closed in contest to lead Britain’s Conservative Party after its crushing election defeat. The result is due to be announced on Saturday.

Britain has banned protests outside abortion clinics, but silent prayer is a gray area

A ban on protesting outside abortion clinics has gone into effect in England and Wales. However, it leaves a question mark over whether anti-abortion demonstrators who pray silently will be breaking the law.

Ministra británica de Hacienda presenta presupuesto con alzas fiscales

Se trata del primer presupuesto del gobierno del Partido Laborista desde que asumió el poder en julio, después de 14 años de gobiernos conservadores. Reeves afirmó que los aumentos de impuestos son necesarios debido al “agujero negro” económico dejado por el gobierno conservador anterior.

Taxes, spending and borrowing all higher as the new Labour government seeks to ‘rebuild’ the UK

British Treasury chief Rachel Reeves says taxes will rise by $52 billion to plug a hole in the public finances and provide new funding for the U.K.

Joven británico acusado de apuñalar a 3 niñas fabricó veneno y tenía manual terrorista, dice policía

Axel Rudakubana, de 18 años, acusado de asesinar a tres niñas y apuñalar a 10 personas más el 29 de julio, produjo la ricina, que luego fue encontrada en su casa, dijo la policía de Merseyside. Las autoridades también encontraron que tenía un archivo de computadora con un manual de entrenamiento de

Police say British teen accused of fatally stabbing 3 girls also made poison and had a terror manual

The teenager accused in a stabbing rampage that killed three girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in England has been charged with producing the deadly poison ricin and faces a terror offense.

Keir Starmer warns the UK budget this week will reflect ‘harsh’ economic reality

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says fixing Britain’s troubled economy will be a long haul in a “harsh” fiscal environment. He’s setting the stage for his government’s high-stakes first budget later this week.

Nick Harkaway steps into his father John le Carré's footsteps with spy thriller ‘Karla’s Choice’

Fictional spymaster George Smiley is back. And so, somewhat surprisingly, is his creator, John le Carré. Four years after the spy writer’s death at the age of 89, comes a new thriller, “Karla’s Choice.”

Antiguas colonias británicas podrían cuestionar a Starmer sobre indemnizaciones por esclavitud

El primer ministro británico Keir Starmer ha dicho que la indemnización por la esclavitud no estaba en el programa de la Reunión de Jefes de Gobierno de la Mancomunidad de Naciones (CHOGM, por sus siglas en inglés), la cual se realiza cada dos años y tiene lugar esta semana en Apia, la capital de Sa

Britain’s leaders likely to face slavery reparations questions at a summit of former colonies

A confrontation for Britain over its role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade appears increasingly likely to feature at a summit of nations its empire once colonized, after Caribbean leaders said they would thrust the matter of financial reparations into the spotlight at the event in Samoa.