Toryism

The fact that Greece remains stuck where it is despite its potential is due, to a significant degree, to an excessive preoccupation with politics - with a small p - and we journalists and commentators are partly to blame for this.

Britain's Conservative Party has chosen Foreign Secretary Liz Truss as the party's new leader, putting her in line to be confirmed as prime minister.

Beleaguered British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered two crushing parliamentary by-election defeats on June 24, including in a southwest English seat previously held by his ruling Conservatives for over a century, prompting the party's chairman to quit.

According to the exit poll, Boris Johnson's Conservatives are projected to win 368 seats in the House of Commons, versus 191 for the Jeremy Corbin's Labour Party, BBC reports.
Polling stations are closed at 10 pm local time, with the first official results expected in the next seven hours.

Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson increased his lead in the race to become Britain's next prime minister on June 17 in a Conservative Party vote that eliminated one of his rivals and enabled upstart candidate Rory Stewart to defy expectations by remaining in the contest.

Iran's parliament on Oct. 7 approved a bill to counter terrorist financing that was strongly opposed by conservatives but seen as vital to salvaging the nuclear deal with European and Asian partners.

How can we make our politicians understand that certain jobs in the state apparatus should be protected against political interference and partisan games?

Prime Minister Theresa May said Friday she would form a new British government with backing from Northern Irish unionists after losing her Conservative majority in a snap general election, AFP reported.

Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservatives have come first in Britain's general election but lost their overall majority in parliament, near-complete results showed on Friday, AFP reported.

With just 16 seats left to declare, the Conservatives have won 309 seats, meaning they cannot get an overall majority in the 650-seat House of Commons.

''British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party risks falling short of winning an overall majority of seats in parliament in a national election on June 8'', The Times newspaper said on Tuesday, quoting research by polling firm YouGov.