#Political leadership

Articles (6)

• 🇬🇧 It's difficult to see how Starmer can put this right — 11/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  In the end, the first drop of the Mandelson files contained neither a smoking gun nor bombshell revelation.

  Related: #Crisis management
• 🇬🇧 The Papers: 'Starmer on ropes' and 'nightmare for Labour' — 28/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  The results of the Gorton and Denton by-election and the fallout for Sir Keir Starmer and the Labour party dominate Saturday's papers.

  Related: #Election results, #Media coverage
• 🇺🇸 Inside Nicolás Maduro’s Last Days as Venezuela’s Leader — 25/02/2026 [USA]

  The Venezuelan leader overestimated his strength and misread his exchange with President Trump in the decisive weeks before his capture by U.S. forces.

  Related: #National security, #U.S.-Venezuela relations, #Power dynamics
• 🇺🇸 Another Canadian Conservative lawmaker defects to Carney's governing Liberals — 18/02/2026 [USA]

  Another opposition Conservative lawmaker in Canada has defected to Prime Minister Mark Carney's governing Liberals.

  Related: #Can­adian politics, #Party defection, #Opposition dynamics, #Parliamentary balance
• 🇺🇸 Olympics-LA Mayor Bass calls on LA28 chair Wasserman to resign — 17/02/2026 [USA] Related: #Olympics governance, #Public accountability, #City infrastructure and event planning
• 🇺🇸 Democrats pushing to 'get ICE under control' with DHS shutdown, Jeffries says — 16/02/2026 [USA]

  A partial government shutdown is underway, and with Congress out this week, many employees of agencies under the Department of Homeland Security will continue working without pay for the foreseeable f...

  Related: #Government shutdown, #Immigration enforcement, #DHS operations, #Budget disputes