UK election
Conservative majority secured. Now the hard part.
Andrew MacDougall: With Boris Johnson now holding the tiger firmly by the tail, there’s no one left to blame should the country take a mauling in the next stage of Brexit negotiations
Conservatives take Downing Street. Markets rally.
May 8: Counting hasn’t finished, but the outcome is clear: a victory for the Tories and the SNP. Plus, it’s jobs day in North America.
Markets react to NDP win, as voting begins in the UK
May 7: Plus, Alibaba’s IPO hype continues to deflate, and the absent women of the venture capital world
Coalition of the pundits
Wells and I debate whether the UK coalition offers any lessons or examples for would-be coalitioners (how dare you suggest we would even consider such a thing?) in Canada. Can you be for one and against the other? Isn’t it “coalition: yes or no”? Only in the hobgoblins of little minds.
Britain’s headache
The newly minted PM faces a daunting task: fix the U.K.’s finances
A coalition worth getting behind
David Cameron has been forced to earn the confidence of the House, not just assume it
A slow-burn bonfire of liberties
MARK STEYN: Here’s what you get when the state hauls nobodies off to jail for quoting the Bible
This fixed-term election law is built to last
COYNE: To unlock Britain’s election law, you need two keys
The mother Parliament
As Britain embarks on—dear lord, no!—coalition governance, Chris Selley attempts to draw lessons.
That UK election, in full: a guide for the perplexed
ANDREW COYNE’s quick guide to the leaders, the bargaining positions, and the stakes
Nude protestors, an angelic Gordon Brown, and David Cameron taking tea
PHOTOS from the UK election (and more to come)
Britain has voted
Hung parliament may result in a coalition government