Brexit

A general election in the wake of a chaotic no-deal Brexit is too great a risk. For a man who has always wanted to occupy No. 10 Downing St., a three-way referendum is the safest way to prolong his premiership.

The British prime minister’s tough talk is designed to provoke Remainers into blocking Brexit—and give him a villain to blame during an election campaign.

Boris Johnson's Brexit guru masterminded the Vote Leave campaign, but he despises Nigel Farage and sees a quick Brexit as the best recipe for neutralizing the far-right.

Britain’s Conservatives and their Democratic Unionist Party allies aren’t the only obstacles to a deal. The EU and the Irish government are also being needlessly stubborn.

The markets think leaving the European Union won’t be a sterling outcome.

The prospect of a hard border is making many Irish on both sides wonder if they’d be better off together.

The new British prime minister’s vision for a Global Britain gets history—and the present—all wrong.

Our top reads on Boris Johnson's unlikely route to 10 Downing Street.

The likely British prime minister doesn’t take anything seriously—even the country’s future.

Since 2016, the campaign to leave the European Union has been led primarily by men. The remaining candidates for prime minister are all male—and they're not talking about the grave consequences of Brexit for women.

Britain's process for replacing Theresa May is hard-fought, high-stakes—and completely undemocratic.

Internal fights among the Conservatives have wrecked the U.K.—and Labour isn’t much better.

Chaos worsens in Sudan, Theresa May exits No. 10 Downing St., and the United States marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day.

Euroskepticism was once the purview of policy wonks. The Leave campaign changed all that, and in doing so may have undermined Britain’s Conservative Party for a generation.