Sean Whelan

Sean Whelan By Sean Whelan Washington Correspondent As a political figure, losing the 2020 presidential election was the best thing that happened to Donald Trump.

Such is the electoral kicking the UK Prime Minister and his Labour Party is expected to receive on Thursday night that it has attracted its own nickname: "Starmergeddon".

Such is the electoral kicking the UK Prime Minister and his Labour Party is expected to receive on Thursday night that it has attracted its own nickname: "Starmergeddon".

The counting has barely started, but the spinning is already in overdrive, with the political consequences already clear, Labour is in trouble, the

If Nigel Farage is the answer, what is the question? If Gordon Browne is the answer, what type of question does Sir Kier Starmer think the electorate have just asked of him?

If Nigel Farage is the answer, what is the question?

So now it is a battle of the lists - 100 MP's have signed up to support British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and, at the time of writing, the list

President Catherine Connolly has ended her first official visit to Great Britain in Leeds, a city where she spent time as a student.

The Battle of Waterloo took place on 18 June, 1815 – so naturally the powers that be in Britain couldn't resist picking 18 June as polling day in the Makerfield bye-election.

Back in the 1970s 'The Six Million Dollar Man' was an extraordinarily popular TV science fiction series, about an astronaut - Steve Austin - who crashes in a test flight and is rebuilt at considerable cost with "bionic" limbs that give him the ability to perform superhuman feats.