Britain is the victim of a constitutional asteroid attack. The election delivered exactly the secretive backroom bargaining that a first-past-the-post constituency system -- as in the US house of representatives -- was supposed to avoid.
Nick Clegg and his Liberal Democrats now have their moment of power, but it will be just a moment. They have failed to win enough votes to carry an overwhelming moral case for electoral reform.
What's missing on both sides of the pond are powerful ideas that dare to pose a different on about immigration, freedom, war and the economy and that do not fit in to easy soundbites.
After 13 years of a Labour government that spanned 9/11, the Iraq War and global financial meltdown, profound disillusion with centre-left politics has given way to the resurgence of polarisation in Britain.
If Britain were a bit more like Sweden, said a Tory minister last week, "I, for one, would not object". Well, nor would I. Sweden has one of the smallest gaps between rich and poor in the world.
Two girls who were last seen singing about their love for British Conservative Party leader David Cameron have evidently been hit with the Cleggmania ...
No matter what Gordon Brown hopes, his now notorious gaffe - nicknamed 'bigotgate' by the British press - is likely to play a pivotal role in the upco...
Philip Lardner, a Conservative party candidate in the upcoming British election, has been suspended after he argued that homosexuality is "not normal....
Nick Clegg, leader of the British Liberal Democrats, has announced that he would be willing to join forces with current party of power Labour in the u...
London, England (CNN) -- Gordon Brown went on the offensive against the two men hoping to replace him as prime minister at a debate Thursday, but it s...
Cleggmania is facing its biggest backlash today, with right-wing British newspapers attacking Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg's integrity. In respo...
David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party and British prime minister candidate, has inspired a pop tribute - the 'Cameron Girls.'
While America...
(AP) LONDON -- First came the chicken, then the egg.
Britain's Conservative Party leader, David Cameron, was hit with an egg Wednesday during a campa...
The British ambassador to Afghanistan, Mark Sedwill, says we will be there "for a generation" more. If we want to prove him wrong, then we have to demand it publicly.
The general impression I had of Gordon Brown, while working on this piece, was that, despite, his mistakes, he is a man of substance in a shallow age. So the question is -- will we get the prime minister we deserve?
The truth is plain, and it is provable. David Cameron's policies will take money from the hard-working majority of Brits, and hand it to his friends and relatives on landed estates and in tax havens.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his rival David Cameron have clashed in the last Prime Minister's Question time before the UK's election in Ma...