Labour Party (UK)

LONDON (AP) — The apologies keep coming from Rupert Murdoch, who has taken out a second newspaper ad promising that his News Corp. will make amends for the phone hacking scandal shaking his global media empire. The ad in several British Sunday...

LONDON (AP) — Britain's military has apologized for using e-mails to tell several dozen long-serving soldiers they were being laid off. The army says an "administrative error" meant the soldiers were not told in person that their contracts would...

* Netanyahu's political allies clash in parliament * Coalition cracks herald trouble for any future peace deal By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM, May 21 (Reuters) - Israel's coalition government presented a divided front on Palestinian statehood on Tuesday...

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — A rising star in Britain's Labour Party, described by some as the "British Barack Obama," Chuka Umunna urged the United Kingdom to more aggressively forge ties with West Africa's fast-growing economies. During a trade mission to...

* Cameron's Conservatives divided over Britain's EU future * Parliament to debate new law on EU withdrawal referendum * Coalition partner's opposition means slim hope of success By Peter Griffiths LONDON, May 16 (Reuters) - Prime Minister David...

* Cameron braced for more party dissent over EU * Up to 100 Conservatives to defy their leader in vote * Labour opposition: Cameron becoming a "laughing stock" * Cameron "extremely relaxed" over rebel vote By Peter Griffiths LONDON, May 15 (Reuters)...

LONDON — Prime Minister David Cameron moved Monday to beat back a brewing rebellion within his Conservative Party over Britain's membership in the European Union, rejecting demands for a speedy public vote on exiting the trading bloc but insisting...

* Senior Conservative would back British EU exit now * Lawmakers in Cameron's party planning revolt this week * Pressure grows amid rising support for anti-EU party By Michael Holden LONDON, May 12 (Reuters) - A senior British minister said on...

The rebels of Christian Caryl's "Strange Rebels" are a motley lot. They include Margaret Thatcher, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his followers, Pope John Paul II, Deng Xiaoping, and the Afghan insurgents who fought back against the Soviet invasion...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain skirted a "triple dip" recession by growing faster than expected in the first three months of the year, providing some cover for a government under fire over its austerity drive. The Office for National Statistics said on...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's budget deficit barely fell in the last 12 months despite a government austerity drive, official data showed on Tuesday, pointing to further pain to come. The fact borrowing fell at all will be some comfort for finance...

LONDON -- Margaret Thatcher, the grocer's daughter who punched through an old-boy political network to become Britain's first female prime minister, stamping her personality indelibly on the nation and pursuing policies that reverberate decades later, has...