The press secretary will be leaving her post at the end of the month

How Angela Merkel Weakened the West and Handed Putin and Xi Leverage

Labour psychodrama is simply not as important as the UK’s diplomatic commitment to its NATO allies.

The most highly anticipated stock market debut of the year, perhaps of all time, has delivered a huge win for UK investors.

Tristan Breijer is the new London head of Checkmate Government Relations. The move into London gives the US lobby firm its first European base, bringing its global power-broking network, with close links to the Trump administration, to the “heart of European policymaking”.

Konstantinos Bogdanos, our regular Brussels Diarist, on how the bills for Europe’s political class are finally coming due in a city where the Belgian middle-class can’t afford to eat out any more.

Recent comments by the former health secretary have plunged Brexit back into national conversation, but what does Labour actually think?

The reform concerns a pre-existing law on the Regulation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) and has been in place since June 2007.  

King Charles’s address to Congress was designed to steady a strained special relationship. Twelve standing ovations later, the Palace had given Downing Street something politics could not: a rare bipartisan moment in Washington and a reminder that royal soft power still has diplomatic bite.

As the two firms face a merger, the question over the longevity of the boutique firm is put under the spotlight.