Sir Keir Starmer said he wanted to move on from the toxic battles of Brexit but the message had clearly not reached Boris Johnson, architect of Britain’s exit from the EU. Starmer, he said, had ...

Successfully steering a deficit-cutting budget for 2025 though a National Assembly splintered into 11 political groups and three mutually antagonistic camps, the centrist prime minister has now ...

That is at least what French Prime Minister François Bayrou plans on doing — using Michel Barnier’s blueprint as a ... Julien De Rosa/AFP via Getty Images After Barnier and his government fell to a no ...

Emmanuel Macron's challenge was to find a prime minister who could stay in office for longer than Michel Barnier President ... depending on her party. Getty Images Marine Le Pen withdrew her ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The previous prime minister of France, conservative Michel Barnier, lasted just three months in office.

That unusual pairing brought down the previous prime minister, Michel Barnier ... Philippe Lopez/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Civil servants would be paid and state institutions would ...

In deciding not to shore up Prime Minister Michel Barnier and his center-right government over an austere budget aimed at reducing France’s massive deficit, Le Pen pleased her traditional base. | ...

The chamber later passed a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Michel Barnier’s government.Credit...Alain Jocard/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Ms. Meloni has also promised a ...

Emmanuel Macron told leaders from across the political spectrum he will not appoint a new prime minister whose survival depends on the far-right National Rally after it spurned Michel Barnier and ...

(Michel Euler / AFP via Getty Images) Our spring issue, “Progress,” was called by one commentator “quite readable.” Click here to see what all the fuss is about. Yet just as the curtain falls on the ...

Ad Policy French President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Michel Barnier stand at attention ... (Photo by Ludovic Marin / Pool / AFP via Getty Images) Macronism has died its second death.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For more than a decade, France had been accustomed to Marine Le Pen trying to “detoxify” her far-right ...